The Miserere in C minor ZWV 57 is a late work by the Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. According to the entry in the autograph score, it was completed on March 12, 1738. The work can thus be place...
Tchaikovsky wrote his Children's Album in the summer of 1878. Following the example of Schumann's Album für die Jugend, the 24 miniatures are not only technically easy to play but also directly relate...
Six Pieces for Piano Op. 51 was commissioned in 1882 and destined for the bourgeois salons, using popular dance types: minuet, polka, 3 waltzes and a romance.
Tchaikovsky wrote his second piano sonata in 1878 and dedicated this 'Grande Sonate' to the notable pianist Karl Klindworth, his colleague at the Moscow Conservatoire, who prepared the manuscript for...
A tribute from Tchaikovsky to the great admired example of Mozart and a challenge for the solo cellist. 'Rokoko-Variationen', the theme of which follows the style of 18th-century music makes high dema...
This homage of Tchaikovsky to the great admired example of Mozart and a challenge to the solo cellist: 'Rokoko-Variationen', the theme of which closely follows the style of 18th-century music, demands...
Petr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, whom Igor Stravinsky charakterized as being 'deeply national', represents the culmination of 'Russion Classical music' of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Prob...
With the publication of the critical commentary this edition of the 6th Symphony is now complete. It provides detailed information about the circumstances in which the work was written, documentation...
The first edition of the musical works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, begun in the 1920s, foundered as a result of adverse economical conditions and because it was an enterprise ahead of its time. In the interve...
