EMB Musical Expeditions

Johann Nepomuk Hummel is a key figure of the transition period between Viennese classicism and Romanticism: a pupil of Mozart, a contemporary of Beethoven, and a model for the composers of the next ge...

Music school students can develop their technical skills by means of a 'game' lasting throughout a year: this volume contains 52 pieces, thus providing an etude for every week of the year. These short...

The four composer-sons of Johann Sebastian Bach were figures of decisive importance in the transitional period between the Baroque and Viennese classicism. Around the middle of the 18th century they w...

This volume offers performance pieces for the more advanced classes in music schools, at the same time allowing a glimpse into the 19th-century music scene. Piano pieces have been arranged from popula...

The special pedagogical value of the character pieces in this volume is enhanced by the fact that they do not make technical demands beyond music school level. Thus, students are introduced to the wor...

Piano students can most easily get to know and enjoy chamber music through four-hands playing. It is no accident that this volume makes reference to the title of Haydn's famous piece Il maestro e lo s...

This collection of character pieces by Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian and Danish composers is a good illustration of the fact that there is plenty to discover in those areas of Europe that more rarely en...

The latest volume in this highly successful series offers romantic character pieces by Polish, Czech and Russian composers, including Moszkowski, Smetana, Fibich and Glinka, for enterprising young pia...

This is a selection from the individual-sounding works written for pedagogical purposes by the popular Soviet Russian composer and pianist (1897-1976). The composer studied and taught in St Petersburg...

In the case of this volume, the series title 'Musical Expeditions' refers not only to mostly forgotten composers, but also to the different types of variations across four centuries. In addition to pi...