Schott Musik

The dance is introduced in 6/8 against 2/4 time, before the exposition of a festive theme that alternates bouncing light passages with percussive chords. A more lyrical central episode precedes the re...

This commissioned work is a tribute to a famous son of the city of San Sebastian: the composer Pablo Sorozábal (1897-1988). As is typical of the zortziko ('in eight'), the popular Basque dance, the pi...

These preludes and fughettas are rare gems for organ players: Not listed in the catalogue of works, these works were discovered among the documents left by Joseph Haas (1879-1960) and are now publishe...

This variation on Noël Nouvelet develops, in an ornamental texture, a popular French Renaissance carol inspired by the incipit of the Marian gregorian hymn, Ave maris stella.

My Sextet for piano and winds was originally written for piano and string quartet. The first movement is filled with drama and passion. Its atmosphere can be seen to be related to my Second Symphony '...

This frenetic assortment of familiar chorale melodies by Martin Luther was composed to mark the celebrations of Luther's music (and the 800th anniversary of the choir of St Thomas in Leipzig) in 2012....

Des heiligen Geistes reiche Gnade (Spiritus Sancti gratia) by Naji Hakim is a chorale prelude based on a melody by Melchior Vulpius. It is a contribution to the Orgelbüchlein Project, a major internat...

As far back as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with fairy tales: with their archetypal characters and set phrases like 'Once upon a time ...' and '... they all lived happily ever after'....

The Sonata in B minor undoubtedly is the most important piano composition by Franz Liszt and a pinnacle of piano literature. The creation of the work around 1850 coincides with the period in which Lis...

Inspired by Heinrich Heine's poem Ihr Bild in the musical setting by Franz Schubert, the seven short movements with connecting interludes evoke the picture of a nightly round dance in an imagined scul...

The Rottenburg Toccata develops the choral melody of 'Sankt Martin, dir ist anvertraut' in the virtuosic style of french romantic toccatas. The work is articulated in three sections with contrasted te...

Bertold Hummel schrieb das vorliegende Ave Maria für seinen Sohn Martin, der dieses Stück auch in Begleitung des familiären Streichquartetts musizierte, wovon eine noch erhaltene Bratschenstimme zeugt...

Der dreiteilige Zyklus des späten Schulhoff für Mezzosopran, Flöte, Viola und Violoncello enthält die Vokalkompositionen Wiegenlied und Der Bettler sowie das kurze Instrumentalstück Die Drähte. Die Vo...

Anlässlich des 500. Reformationsjubiläums 2017 erscheint das 3. Concerto für Orgel von Peter Wittrich. Der 1959 geborene Münchner Hochschullehrer verarbeitet darin die beiden Luther-Choräle Verleih un...

This work is an homage of Schneider to Max Reger:Organ Symphony No. 15 does not attempt to adapt Reger's style, which could hardly be made more intense or varied. On the contrary, with 'ardent reducti...

The present triptych follows the structure of the Italian overture - fast, slow, fast. Its style is mostly ornamental, with two lively movements framing a rather contemplative central chorale.

In this work, Naji Hakim presents the chorale theme O Königin voll Herrlichkeit in four brilliant variations.

The sonata premiered in 2016 is based on the Luther chorale Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist (Come, God Creator, Holy Spirit) and consists of three parts: 'The first movement transforms the first e...