Editio Musica Budapest

The series Moments Musicaux contains popular and well-known short masterpieces and transcriptions. An admitted aim of the publisher was to release high-standard editions of these popular pieces for a...

This is a transcription for cello and guitar of the masterpiece of the French romantic composer which will probably prove to be a rewarding piece for performance for young music pupils. The work appea...

Signs, games and messages are compositions of differing length, written for different occasions: musical letters, tributes, playful games with instrumental technique. In the past year pieces for violi...

The 20th-century Hungarian composer and music historian was a pupil of Zoltán Kodály. In the most important period of his creative activity he kept in contact with the constructivist movement of the i...

ABRSM Syllabus title - Grades 6, 8Two volumes entitled Cello Meets Piano, edited and published by Árpád Pejtsik, were issued many years ago by the Könemann Music Budapest. The first edition was quickl...

A few years ago, an excellent tarogato player asked me to write accompaniments for some 18th-century melodies that were to be featured on a new record of his that was currently under preparation. Thes...

Not many people know that Franz Liszt arranged some of his piano pieces for the cello, with piano accompaniment, and that these versions of the works appeared in print during the maestro's lifetime. Á...

The arranger of this work (a well-known Hungarian composer living in Romania) writes: This piece has always excited my imagination, from several points of view. First of all, its name. The German titl...

A virtuoso concert piece, a transcription for violoncello of the Solo Sonata composed for viola in 2004. As in other works by János Vajda, in the well-proportioned structure of the solo sonata and in...

The source of this publication was issued in London in 1745 by John Walsh Jr. Walsh s publication contains six four-movement works, originally written for violin, solo cello, a keyboard instrument and...

Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) was one of Hungary smost decisively important 20th-century composers. His musical profile combined Hungarian folkmusic, classical traditions, the melodiousness of the Mediter...

One of the greatest contemporary cellists, Miklós Perényi (b. 1948), appears with great success as a soloist and chamber musician on concert stages across the world. In addition to giving concerts and...

Hungarian Rondo was composed by Zoltán Kodály in December 1917, drawing on material from the incidental music he had written for Zsigmond Móricz's play Pacsirtaszó (Skylarking). The rondo form is shap...

The piece is based on a text written by Péter Esterházy entitled (seven ants) from his book Fancsikó and Pinta. Although this text can be regarded as the literary program of the composition, it is not...

ABRSM Cello Syllabus title - Grade 7. Gábor Lisznyay Szabó (1913-1981) was a pupil of Ernst von Dohnányi at the Music Academy in Budapest and he later worked for decades as an organist. The years he s...

Arioso for cello and piano by Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) is one of the composer s earliest-known compositions. He wrote the piece in 1926 during his student years, although it was originally intended t...