Editio Musica Budapest

At an early age Kodály composed several Ave Marias for various ensembles of performers. In its final form this chorus seems the most complete of these. From the manuscript scores we know that the work...

The volume comprises works by classical and romantic masters for beginners. The chamber ensemble includes violin, viola, violoncello and piano, but if the viola is missing, its part can be played by a...

The idea of composing 'Games' was suggested by children playing spontaneously, children for whom the piano still means a toy. They experiment with it, caress it, attack it and run their fingers over i...

The piano series entitled Games, written from 1973 onwards, was conceived originally as a piano method. Its early volumes introduced children to the basic elements in piano-playing and musical thinkin...

The work was composed in 1908-1910. 'Bartók may have chosen to call these sketches because most of the pieces are indeed like a painter's sketch for a later, larger work: quickly executed creative wor...

Béla Bartók composed his Piano Quintet while at grammar school in Pozsony (Pressburg, now Bratislava), and it still shows the influence of Brahms in its melody and harmony. The work was always resound...

Each book in series presents a composer trough a selection of brief pieces. The first volumes help the young pianist to become acquainted with the music of Händel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert,...

The collection has been intended to give instrumental beginners the possibility to play together as early as in the second of third year of study.

An ABRSM syllabus title.

Music school students can develop their technical skills by means of a 'game' lasting throughout a year: this volume contains 52 pieces, thus providing an etude for every week of the year. These short...