Klassische Klavierstücke

As três Marias (2016): "Três Marias" is the name in Brazil for those three stars that we know as the three belt stars of the hunter Orion. What a contrast of names! On the one hand, the wild, pagan hu...

Long before their marriage, Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann had already begun a musical partner discourse, in mutual allusions they networked their compositions, planned an artistic community based on...

Volkslieder in Klaviermusik zu verwandeln hat eine lange Tradition in der europäischen Kunstmusik: Sei es "John Come kiss me now" vom Virginalisten William Byrd um 1600, Joseph Haydns Capriccio über d...

Individual lines from poems by Rose Ausländer have become the movement titles of my sonata - they are not "set to music", but are the source of inspiration. In this fragmentary form, the words enter i...

The inspiration for the work was "Voskos", a folk song from Cyprus whose lyrics reflect on life and death. The plane trees and myrtles are symbols of infinity: our relationship to space and eternity l...

Seven piano miniatures, characterized by emotions that are easy to recognize and connect with one's own feelings. The pieces are deliberately limited in their difficulty (comparable to Béla Bartók, Mi...

In order to preserve compositions for pedal grand piano for practical use, they had to be arranged. Schumann's Studies for the Pedal Piano op. 56 in particular have always been recognized as special g...

The two scherzos presented here were composed around 30 years apart. The Scherzo op. 8 was published by Rieter-Biedermann in Winterthur in 1857, but was probably composed much earlier, at least in par...

The Romances op. 22 were composed during Kirchner's time in Würzburg, where he directed the local music school from 1873 to 1875. This period was very fruitful for the compositional work of the then f...

The "12 Pieces for Grandchildren" are an alternative version of the Children's Trios op. 58 for violin, cello and piano published by N. Simrock in Berlin in 1882 (new edition: E.D. 30803). The trio ve...

The seemingly tranquil title "Stille Lieder und Tänze" (Silent Songs and Dances) gives little indication that the sixteen piano pieces are among Theodor Kirchner's most harmonically daring composition...

The Preludes for Piano op. 9 were first published in 1859 in two booklets by Rieter-Biedermann in Winterthur and are dedicated to Clara Schumann, with whom Kirchner had been in correspondence since th...

The "Twelve original compositions for pianoforte 4 hands" op. 57 were written during Kirchner's time in Leipzig, where he worked as a freelance composer and arranger from 1876 to 1883. As far as his o...

Adagio quasi Fantasia op. 12 was published in March 1870 by Gebrüder Hug in Zurich after a nine-year break in publication. Alongside the two Scherzi op. 8 and op. 54 (new edition: E.D. 30801), it is t...

Ideale op. 33 were first published by Jakob Rieter-Biedermann in two booklets in 1878 and 1884. The first four pieces are headed with birth dates that suggest the revered "ideals". I. (June 8) is a te...

The Four Elegies for Pianoforte op. 37 were first published in November 1878 by Julius Hainauer in Breslau. They are dedicated to the singer and patron Hedwig von Holstein. Her husband, the composer a...

This volume is a practical edition based on the 2006 reprint of volumes 10 and 11 of Denkmäler rheinischer Musik in einem Band (E.D. 26347). Like the latter, the present edition combines reprints of t...