Kontrabass-Bibliothek

A musical finger exercise, written in a train between Zurich and Basel and referring to 'Tinian' from Hölderlin's 'Hesperische Gesänge' on the speculative level of Holliger's chamber music.The first v...

Diese leicht spielbare Sonatine besticht mit ihrer ansprechenden Melodik und klassischen Stilistik und schließt eine wichtige Lücke in der Anfängerliteratur für Kontrabass. Sie eignet sich bestens für...

Ich habe mein Bestes gegeben, das ursprüngliche Werk originalgetreu wiederzugeben. Allerdings tauchen in der Bearbeitung Stellen auf, an denen Klänge umgestaltet wurden, damit sie den technischen Beso...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

This four-movement piece was designed as a double quartet and, as the title implies, is like a little symphony. The varied sound is the result of harmonics, glissandos, pizzicatos, fingerboard and ins...

'Ein Orakelspruch für sechs Kontrabässe' (An oracle for six double-basses) - this is how Widmann calls his composition which he wrote upon commission of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on the occasi...

Fernando Grillo, double bass player and composer, is one of the most original exponents of contemporary music. His attention is focused in particular on new techniques for string instruments and aspec...

More and more children and young people are taking up the double bass, the largest member of the string family. Double bass players are always in demand and welcome in any orchestra. There are musical...

Again and again, Holliger enhances his virtuoso compositions by reviving historical traditions. In Preludio e Fuga, this return to history refers to the scordatura of the so-called 'Viennese temperame...

Teachers again and again ask for easy-to-play double-bass music suitable for lessons or the competition 'Jugend musiziert'. The composer Peter Wittrich from Munich has undertaken this task and compose...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

Peteris Vasks from Latvia, who is known for his atmospheric pieces for string orchestra Cantabile, Musica dolorosa and Voices, is concentrating increasingly on chamber music. He was commissioned to co...

Eine musikalische Fingerübung, geschrieben im Zug zwischen Zürich und Basel, und doch im Bezug auf den 'Tinian' aus den 'Hesperischen Gesängen' Hölderlins auf der klangspekulativen Höhe der Kammermusi...

For a number of years the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, famous for his atmospheric compositions for string orchestra like 'Cantabile' and 'Musica dolorosa', worked as a double bass player in various...