Schott Musik

These three pieces found in the estate of the composer are a testimony to the compositional techniques employed by Zimmermann at the age of 22. They provide an interesting addition to his complete pia...

Tcherepnin composed these five pieces during a sojourn in Shanghai, were he was honorary professor at the conservatory and also worked as a consultant for the Chinese ministry of education. The studie...

The fame of the Spanish composer and theorist Padre Antonio Soler has long been eclipsed by that of Domenico Scarlatti. These Sonatas, based on a printed copy published in London c. 1795, demonstrate...

Shchedrin, son of a composer and music teacher, underwent a thorough musical training in Moscow. His versatility and dazzling competence across a wide variety of musical genres are surely a result of...

Die schönsten leichten und mittelschweren Klavierstücke aus der Zeit der Spätromantik, des Impressionismus und des Übergangs zur Moderne.

Bizet's Carmen is one of the most famous operas of all time. Love, jealousy, murder, vast choral set pieces, and overwhelming passion combined with a colourful Spanish setting are sure-fire ingredient...

Tschaikowskys 'Nussknacker' gehört zu den Balletten, die sich wegen der hübschen Märchenhandlung und der eingängigen Musik gerade auch bei Kindern großer Beliebtheit erfreuen.

These previously unpublished piano pieces will appear in print for the first time in three volumes. Volume I contains fairly short individual pieces (1872-83) of widely varying difficulty. Volume II w...

The tonal language of the young Richard Strauss is still characterized by the traditions of the 19th Century; indeed, the musical content of the composer's early piano works is determined to a large e...

Der erste Band dieser Reihe enthält die wegen ihrer Virtuosität berüchtigte sogenannte 'Donau-Arabeske' des polnischen Pianisten Adolf Schulz-Evler, in deren geradezu genialer Einleitung das berühmtes...

The opera paraphrases take a prominent place among Liszt's complete works as a self-contained art form alongside original compositions. Feruccio Busoni values the high artistic merit of these composit...

A comprehensive compendium of 20th-century musical styles, these 28 pieces by 23 composers were selected by one of the most influential piano teachers of our time. Pieces by Schoenberg, Scott, Prokofi...

Ich schrieb diese kleine Paraphrase der Gavotte aus Bachs Partita in E-dur vor zwanzig Jahren. Eigentlich ist sie eine Art doppelte Hommage: auf der einen Seite ist es natürlich ein Tribut an J. S. Ba...

Paul Dessau, whose collaboration with Bertolt Brecht made a significant impression in the consciousness of music-lovers, is an extremely versatile composer. Two short pieces from his piano works are n...

Early on in his remarkable career as a concert pianist Glenn Gould composed a few works of his own: a String Quartet (ED 8764), Piano Pieces (ED 8319) and the Sonata in two movements presented here. W...

Glenn Gould's transcriptions of the Siegfried Idyll, Morning Mist and Siegfried's Journey along the Rhine from Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen are already legendary as recordings. The Siegfrie...

With the prelude to the Mastersingers we now publish the second of three Wagner transcriptions already made legendary by Gould's 1973 recording. Gould brought Wagner's 'brilliant counterpoint' to life...

Die umfangreiche Anthologie mit internationaler Klaviermusik des 20. Jahrhunderts - ausgewählt von einem der bedeutenden Klavierpädagogen unserer Zeit. Eine Fundgrube mit mittelschweren Stücken für Ko...

This work by Kodály's pupil Szelényi, published here for the first time, might be seen as something approaching the Romantic 'piano concerto without orchestra'. Even the Fugato in this work seems to p...

Erstausgabe zum 100. Geburtstag.

The two pianos introduce the bass motif one after another. Every new entry brings an increase in tempo. Only when they play together, though, is the real 'Vivace unleashed. From then on, it is only in...

With his five piano concertos, sonatas and 24 preludes and fugues Rodion Shchedrin is one of the most prominent composers for piano of our time. A gifted pianist, he has given the first performances o...

Encouraged by Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms, Kirchner (1823-1903) is recognised as one of the most original composers for piano among the German Romantics. The Five Sonatinas' were written in Leip...