Musikverlag Zimmermann

At the turn of the century, when Salons still existed, the Flute Journal was a collection of pieces for family music regularly issued. It makes pieces of popular and less-known composers accessible an...

With more than 500 printed works, Popp is probably one of the most hard-working flute composers of all times. However, only a few of his flute tutors are in use today, while his concertant music has f...

With the composition Jahreszeiten (Seasons) for solo flute, the composer, painter and flutist Friedrich Leufgen establishes a link between music and painting. Starting with spring symbolizing a new be...

The Austrian flutist and composer Raphael Dressler lived from 1784 to 1835. Only 70 out of his approx. 100 flute compositions were published in his time. The new edition presented here is based on an...

This book of exercises developed out of many years of pedagogic experience working towards the conscious stimulation and execution of the warm-up phase of flute playing. In other words, warming-up mea...

The first movement is a mixture of eight short motifs each of which has its own compository idea and its characteristic notation. The second movement is grounded on the basic note c and has a meditati...

Searching for an instrument which should fulfill the need for deep, powerful and at the same time sonorous flute tones, the ingenious flute maker Theobald Böhm created the first alto flute in 1858. Li...

There are still doubts about whether or not the two sonatinas (originally meant for piano in G major and F major) are genuine. Due to their low level of difficulty, they are part of the standard reper...

The Land behind the Clouds is a fairytale in which a little girl saves the earth with her flute play. Moments (Song of the sound goddess) describes moments in the lives of Indians; the composition als...

The compositions by the Swiss Joseph Lauber (1864 - 1952) who lived half of his life in the 19th century and the other half in the 20th century, are related more to the late Romantic period than to th...

From 1909, the Italian flutist Leonardo de Lorenzo (1875-1962) mainly lived in the United States. His artistic career included loloist positions in great American orchetras (e.g. NYPO). Furthermore, h...

Thumpy® the thumb flute is a simple instrument with a natural and flexible sound. The flute is made of a straight, cylindrical wooden pipe. The embouchure hole is located just outside the middle of th...

Siegfried Wagner's name seems insignificant compared with that of his famous father, Richard Wagner, and his own son, Wolfgang Wagner, at present Director of the Bayreuther Festspiele. His compository...

This composition plays with the endless possibilities of how sounds can be produced on a flute. Single fragments of the original tune seem to be floating to us as if they came from another world - jus...

In his time, Raphael Dressler must have been a flutist of such renown that his Flute Tutor op. 68 was published nearly simultaneously by several publishers in London, Bonn and New York in 1827/28. His...

Contents: Akatombo (Red dragonfly); Yume Kaze (Dream wind); Itsuki-no-Komoriutu (Japanese lullaby from Itsuki); Kojo-no-Tsuki (Moon over the castle ruins); Kagome Kagome (Children's ring-a-ring-o' ros...

The four pieces on the theme of the night with the title Flattering Night Thoughts are fantasies - both literally and musically. They can be played either separately or in sequence. The titles of the...

In addition to some 70 operas, Domenico Cimarosa's (1749 - 1801) compositions include lithurgical music, but also chamber music as well as 32 one-movement sonatas for harpsichord. The musical roots of...

The piece was composed in 1980 and it is quite popular due to the interpretation by Robert Aitken. Incandescence means inensity, brilliance and connotes a high degree of emotion. Composed in a moderat...

Little is known about François Borne, even his birth and death year (1840 - 1920) (?) are not verified. He was professor for flute in Toulouse, published a theoretical work about flute making (togethe...

With the current collection we would like to invite you to a journey with the flute through different continents. On this musical expedition musical memories and imaginations will awake. Atmospheric p...

Luna y Sierra is a meditative celebration of a moment of natural beauty, enjoyed by the composer during his stay in the mountains of southern Spain. The piece is written for flute solo accompanied by...

The significant composers of the Romantic period almost entirely ignored the flute as a solo or chamber music instrument. It's for this reason that any historical adaptations of works suitable for the...

Die große spätromantische Sonate von Richard Rößler (1880-1962) stellt eine wesentliche Bereicherung der Literatur dieser Epoche dar. Im 1. Satz herrscht eine heitere Atmosphäre, in der der Charakter...

Joachim Andersen, einer der großen Flötenvirtuosen des 19. Jahrhunderts, ist Flötisten vor allem durch seine Etüden bekannt, die zum Standardrepertoire gehören. Dass er auch reizvolle Charakterstücke...