Edmund Wächter

In June 1932 the composer Paul Hindemith spent four days at a boarding school in Plön to work with young people. He wrote short instrumental pieces in various instrumentations, ranging from recorder t...

The great talent of Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) showed very early: At the age of 12, she published her first composition. Georges Bizet, a friend of the family, predicted her great future. After her...

Discover Theobald Böhm's arrangements for alto flute in G, precisely reproduced from historical manuscripts and published here for the first time. Includes arrangements of well-known melodies by Beeth...

This edition contains three beautiful and rather easy performance pieces which have been selected from the large number of pieces by Wilhelm Popp (1828-1903) in a Romantic concert style.Cantabile and...

The compositions, arrangements and studies by Wilhelm Popp (1828-1903) are still very popular among flutists in particular today. Popp wrote more than 600 pieces at different levels of difficulty.Bril...

The compositions, arrangements and studies by Wilhelm Popp (1828-1903) are particularly popular amongst flautists today. Popp wrote more than 600 pieces at different levels of difficulty.His brilliant...

Searching for an instrument which should fulfill the need for "deep, powerful and at the same time sonorous flute tones", the ingenious flute maker Theobald Böhm created the first alto flute in 1858....

This historicizing love poetry from pre-Christian times, a poem of literary symbolism, was musically portrayed by Debussy in a congenial manner: Bilitis, the beautiful priestess of Aphrodite, sings of...

The 5 Petits duos for flute, violin and piano are dedicated to the last legitimate successor to the tsarist throne and his sister: À Leurs Altesses Impériales Monseigneur le Grand Duc Michel Alexandro...

Four short pieces for violin and piano by Lili Boulanger have survived and are brought together in this book. In three instances the editors Elisabeth Weinzierl and Edmund Wächter have chosen to base...

The present work 'Pantomime' by Paul Hindemith, now available as a separate edition for the first time, comes from his opera 'Cardillac', performed in 1926 for the first time, a musical setting of the...

The wide-ranging oeuvre of Harald Genzmer (1909-2007) is completed by a large number of small-scale chamber music works. In the last stage of his creative life, the flute played a major role. It was i...

This anthology presents a selection of original works from 300 years of flute history - from the Baroque period to Classical modernism, from Telemann to Paul Hindemith, from virtuoso to sentimental. T...