Schott Musik

The composition Tango basso by the double bass pedagogue Charlotte Mohrs is ideal as a lecture and exam piece for advanced students. Furnished with fingerings and bows and supplemented by a well-playa...

Teachers again and again ask for easy-to-play double-bass music suitable for lessons or the competition 'Jugend musiziert'. The composer Peter Wittrich from Munich has undertaken this task and compose...

The reputation of the Bohemian composer Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900) has always been somewhat overshadowed by that of Bedrich Smetana and Antonín Dvorák. This is a pity, for Fibich, though he died young,...

Stimulated by my love of automata, this work for solo oboe takes its name from the invention of Wolfgang von Kempelen, who in the late eighteenth century constructed an extraordinary mechanical man po...

'Amethyst Deceiver' is a short piece inspired by the idea of a mysterious woodland setting in which strange things come to life. 'Amethyst deceivers' are tiny purple mushrooms, rarely seen, but when f...

The melodies from George Gershwin's (1898-1937) musicals, from 'Porgy and Bess', from orchestral pieces like 'Rhapsody in Blue' or 'An American in Paris', we all know them! But the career of the young...

'Nekyia' is one of the world's basic principles in the mythology of antiquity: each striving after higher values, each spiritualization and each attempt at perfection presupposes the passage through H...

A typical solo concerto of the Mannheim School which contributed to the fact that this new style was spread all over the world by the composer and celebrated oboe virtuoso Lebrun. This work convinces...

Piano reduction with solo part