Schott

Flight of the Bumble Bee from the opera 'The Legend of Tsar Saltan' based on a text by Pushkin is, without doubt, the best-known work in the oeuvre of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1906). The musical...

Con un programma completo e un nuovo design moderno, la serie Edition Schott si prepara al suo centenario nel 2013 e fornirà ai musicisti edizioni a basso prezzo per le lezioni di musica, i concerti e...

La malinconica e popolare "Pavane for a Dead Princess" di Maurice Ravel, composta nel 1899, fu originariamente scritta per pianoforte prima di essere arrangiata per orchestra nel 1910. Pur essendo ded...

A 'Last Night of the Proms' without this march - unthinkable! 'Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1' with its middle section, the hymn-like 'Land of Hope and Glory' by Edward Elgar (1857-1934),...

The music of small forms and of chamber-music instrumentations was to become the focus of the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). In 1874, after many years spent in the 'provinces', the teacher...

The music scene took notice of Erik Satie (1866-1925) all of a sudden: The world premiere of his ballet 'Parade' on 18 May 1917 [siehe dt. Text!] caused quite a scandal. The production which involved...

'Novelty of form, selected modulations, strange tone colours, the use of completely unexpected rhythms', this is how Camille Saint-Saëns praised the debut work of a young colleague and continued: 'Abo...

The famous Golliwogg's Cakewalk is the final piece from Debussy's cycle Children's Corner which consists of 6 miniatures for piano, written for his daughter in the years 1906-1908.The style correspond...