Nick Pfefferkorn

This Passion oratorio Gethsemane und Golgatha was composed in the astonishingly short period from 22 to 28 July 1838 on a text by the evangelist Wilhelm Schuber, a close friend of Friedrich Schneider'...

There are many composers about whom it is believed, today, that they composed conservatively, or against the taste of their time. The question is also raised, today, which extract of this large amount...

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his 'Don Juan') of his reputation and above all of his 'value' as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by...

Strauss had originally intended that Don Quixote always be performed, if possible, together with Heldenleben, “since Don Q. in particular is only fully comprehensible alongside Heldenleben.” To date,...

Friedrich Schneider ist heute vor allem durch sein umfangreiches Œuvre im Bereich des Oratoriums bekannt. Nicht weniger bedeutend ist jedoch - neben seinem symphonischen Schaffen - vor allem sein Werk...

First Urtext edition since the first edition Evaluation of all available manuscript and printed sources Extensive preface with explanations on the history of composition and reception Detailed critica...

Tone poem - Urtext edited by Nick Pfefferkorn. Picc.3.4(4.Eh).Eb-Klar.2.B-Klar.3.Kfg - 8.5.3.T-Tuba.Bb-Tuba - 2Hfe - Pk - Schl - Str First Urtext edition since the first edition. Evaluation of all ava...

Eduard Franck war einer der ganz wenigen Privatschüler von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, der selbst ein enger Freund der Familie Franck war. Franck stand fest auf dem Boden der Mendelssohn'schen Tradit...

Friedrich Schneider's dedication to sacred vocal music dates back into his early years as a schoolboy in Zittau. As of today Schneider is - if at all - only known as the composer of the ground-breakin...

Friedrich Schneider's second oratorio Das Weltgericht was an immediate success at its 1820 premiere in Leipzig. The initial triumph of the work, which the appearance of Mendelssohn's oratorio Paulus o...

Friedrich Schneider's second oratorio Das Weltgericht was an immediate success at its 1820 premiere in Leipzig. The initial triumph of the work, which the appearance of Mendelssohn's oratorio Paulus o...

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his 'Don Juan') of his reputation and above all of his 'value' as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by...

Tod und Verklärung marks a turning point in Richard Strauss's corpus of tone poems: Even before the November 1889 premiere of his previous work Don Juan, Strauss had finished his third work in this ge...

The present Concertino in E-flat major, Op. 5, was composed especially for the Leipzig trombone virtuoso Carl Traugott Queisser (1800-1846), to whom the work is also dedicated. The Concertino was firs...

Tod und Verklärung marks a turning point in Richard Strauss's corpus of tone poems: Even before the November 1889 premiere of his previous work Don Juan, Strauss had finished his third work in this ge...

Richard Strauss's last completed tone poem is regarded as the pinnacle of his art of orchestration: "Now I've finally learned to orchestrate," he himself is once supposed to have said about it after t...

Es ist und bleibt erstaunlich, dass die beiden hier vorliegenden Sonaten für Klarinette und Klavier des Komponisten Camillo Schumann (1872-1946) bisher völlig unbekannt geblieben sind, stehen sie doch...