Breitkopf & Härtel Sheet Music

In this piece, the composer has employed the Zhong-hu (Alto Erhu) - the ancient instrument imported to China from Western Regions (the areas west of Yumenguan, including what is now Xinjiang and parts...

The famous Valse triste grew out of the incidental music to Arvid Järnefelts drama Kuolema (Death). After the first staged performances in December 1903 at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Si...

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...

Joachim Raff’s celebrated first cello concerto is only gradually being rediscovered today. This is astounding, taking into account both the quality of the composition as well as its enthusiastic recep...

Indispensable repertoire work; first critical version; two versions of the ballad included in score and piano reduction Carl Reinecke was interested in exploring music and not just "snacking" on it. I...

The Easter oratorio BWV 249 was first performed on Easter Sunday 1725 with the text "Come, make haste and run". In the counting of the new BWV, this is already BWV 249.3, following two congratulatory...

The six last and musically most important symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Breitkopf & Härtel Urtext edition. Editors Cliff Eisen and Henrik Wiese present a text-critical authentic musical...

From the Tang Dynasty to the present day, many artists, including BAI Xingjian (776 - 826), GUAN Hanqing (ca.1234 - 1300) and REN Tongxiang (1927 - 2002), have compared the name "A Rose" to an ordinar...

I got the word 'ambig[uous]' from Thomas Bauer: Die Vereindeutigung der Welt (Stuttgart: Reclam 2018). In this booklet, the author speaks out against a restrictive, perhaps even limited unambiguity an...

This percussion trio was composed in close collaboration with the dedicatees Martin Grubinger, Richard Putz, and Slavik Stakhov. The trio is in three parts, characterized by the sheer joy of a design...

UA Rottenburg (Tage für Neue Musik), 1. April 1990

Max Regers bekannte Romanze G-dur WoO II/10 entstand als Beilage für die 'Neue Musik-Zeitung', für die der Komponist in den Jahren 1900 und 1901 vor allem Lieder und Klavierstücke lieferte. Reger sel...

Kirchenglocken, indische Glöckchen, Almglocken, Glockenspiel - eine reiche Familie, voller Bedeutungen und Traditionen. Als Kind war ich beeindruckt von einer Dankeskapelle in der Nähe meines Heimator...

It was the practice of Khöömii (throat singing) - following several workshops with Michael Ormiston - that first attracted me to Tuvan music. Composing this 'Songbook,' the first in a series commissio...

It was the practice of Khöömii (throat singing) - following several workshops with Michael Ormiston - that first attracted me to Tuvan music. Composing this 'Songbook,' the first in a series commissio...

Als Student hörte ich Aufnahmen der Tenores di Bitti und verliebte mich in ihren bemerkenswerten Gesang - ihr einzigartig intensives Timbre, ihr Zusammenklang, der zugleich rein und rau schien, und da...

Als Student hörte ich Aufnahmen der Tenores di Bitti und verliebte mich in ihren bemerkenswerten Gesang - ihr einzigartig intensives Timbre, ihr Zusammenklang, der zugleich rein und rau schien, und da...

Commissioned by the Kölner Philharmonie (KölnMusik) for the 'non bthvn projekt' 2020 and the Cité de la musique / Philharmonie de Paris Dedicated to Arditti Quartet Each movement of this quartet explo...

Two years ago in Rome, I encountered a murmuration of starlings and I was amazed with its overwhelming beauty, changing shape as it moved. Moving of a fish school that you can watch in an aquarium, ha...

Two years ago in Rome, I encountered a murmuration of starlings and I was amazed with its overwhelming beauty, changing shape as it moved. Moving of a fish school that you can watch in an aquarium, ha...