Kolja Lessing

In December 1983, Ignace Strasfogel (1901–1994) took up pencil and music paper again for the first time, ending a decades-long creative break from composing. Born in Warsaw in 1909 and moving to Berli...

Ignace Strasfogel (1909 - 1994), a master student of Franz Schreker and Leonid Kreutzer, the youngest student at the Berlin Hochschule and the youngest recipient of the prestigious Mendelssohn Prize o...

The selection of 36 violin duos from Louis Spohr’s famous Violinschule, compiled with commentary by Kolja Lessing, meets two objectives: First of all, it is an extraordinarily delightful, musically-en...

The selection of 36 violin duos from Louis Spohr’s famous Violinschule, compiled with commentary by Kolja Lessing, meets two objectives: First of all, it is an extraordinarily delightful, musically-en...

Exactly 300 years after Bach completed his unique cosmos of the Sei Solo á Violino senza Basso accompagnato, Kolja Lessing is presenting a collection, rich in discovery, of also 6 solo violin works in...

Jarnach wrote three sonatas for solo violin - the second Sonata, Op. 11, was composed in 1913 and is dedicated to Max Reger. With the increase in interest in the music of the early decades of the 20th...

For a long time, Wolf Glaser, pianist, music pedagogue and composer, had not been known in Germany. Born in Cologne in 1913, he studied with Philipp Jarnach and Paul Hindemith among others, but no soo...

In December 1983, Ignace Strasfogel (1901–1994) took up pencil and music paper again for the first time, ending a decades-long creative break from composing. Born in Warsaw in 1909 and moving to Berli...

Am Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts stand das häusliche Musizieren in hoher Blüte und die Gitarre hoch im Kurs. Gegenüber dem kurzen Zitherton der frühen Klaviere besaß die Gitarre einen singenden, tragend...

For a long time, Wolf Glaser, pianist, music pedagogue and composer, had not been known in Germany. Born in Cologne in 1913, he studied with Philipp Jarnach and Paul Hindemith among others, but no soo...

Transkription für Violine und Gitarre von Kolja Lessing

Mit der Entdeckung der vier Violinkonzerte des Ernst von Gemmingen (1759-1813) gut 200 Jahre nach ihrer Entstehung kam ein Werkkomplex zum Vorschein, der in seinem opernhaften Habitus ebenso wie in se...

2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. This was the occasion for this special publication, which summarises several decades of publishing, artistic and academic work and h...