Schott Musik

Whereas the organ works by Widor have secured a solid position in the repertoire, his no less elaborate and artistic piano works are known to only a small circle of pianists, probably because the pian...

Christian Sinding (1856-1941) gained worldwide fame with his piano piece 'Frühlingsrauschen', which is likely to be his most famous work still today. The '5 Klavierstücke' Op. 97, created in 1909, are...

Mozart's best-known opera - now available in the popular series 'Get to Know Classical Masterpieces'. With explanations about the composer, the opera, persons and contents of the story. Easy to play p...

Referring to Robert Schumann, the title sets the general mood of these character pieces which alternate between Romantic and contemporary tonal language. This is how the composer stresses it in his pr...

'Six Pieces' Op. 19 is the first collection of piano pieces by Tchaikovsky which contributed significantly to his growing renown as most important Russian composer apart from Anton Rubinstein. Famous...

Tchaikovsky composed the Russian rural scene 'Dumka' in just a few days in late February 1886. 'Dumka' is originally the name of an epic and historical South West Slavic folk song of a melancholy natu...

Erwin Schulhoff composed his cadenzas for Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concertos No. 1-4 (no independent cadenza is intended for Piano Concerto No. 5) in Berlin in 1923. That means they were written a...

After his spectacular cadenza of Beethoven's Concerto in C minor (contained in ED 20140), the well-known Turkish pianist and composer now presents cadenzas of two of the most popular concertos by Moza...

This volume presents the probably most beautiful and most popular children's opera that has ever been written, in an easy arrangement for piano, with all excerpts being in the respective original key....

In this series, Schott presents demanding piano transcriptions of well-known works. The series comprises 14 editions, all volumes of which have been compiled with great care and given a special cover....

The Turkish pianist and composer Faz?l Say has from the age of six begun each day with the performance of a keyboard work by Bach; his concert programmes include both numerous original compositions an...

Friedrich Zehm, pupil of composition with Harald Genzmer, primarily wrote chamber music for music lessons, easy recital pieces and piano music. He was less interested in the practising of playing tech...

The compositions of Friedrich Zehm (1923-2007) are characterized by the desire for clarity, conciseness and general comprehensibility. His freely tonal works are influenced by elements from various ep...

Rainer Maria Rilke gives the well-known Orpheus myth a surprising turn: when Orpheus turns around, Eurydike does not recognise him (any more). In his piano piece composed as a compulsory piece for the...

'Circle of Life' was commissioned for the International Piano Competition of the Wiesbaden Music Academy. At its centre is a Toccata which can also be played separately. In contrast, with regard to it...

With his five piano concertos, sonatas and 24 preludes and fugues, Rodion Shchedrin is one of the most outstanding piano music composers of our time. As he is an excellent pianist himself, he was able...

Bach transcriptions have always been popular for the musical brilliance of the Baroque master opens up a vast field, for composers and performers. Even the pianist and composer Emile Naoumoff who bega...

The piano pieces by Nikolay Andreyevitch Roslawez selected here and published for the first time complement the already published piano sonatas (ED 7941, ED 8391, ED 8392) and individual pieces (ED 79...

This first print is a rarity: the highly virtuoso, evocative 'Nocturne' owes its creation to an instrument that has only survived as a museum piece. Gustave Lyon, the director of the French instrument...

The so-called 'little works of great masters' play an important role in piano lessons. But how to practise such pieces systematically? How can the teacher get the students to not just play through the...

The French organist and composer Jean Guillou (*1930) calls his own cycle 'Colloque' in which the grand seigneur among the virtuoso organists wants to present an exchange of ideas, while juxtaposing c...

'Alaiki'ssalaam' (Peace be with you) is a Maronite Marian hymn which is developed in a setting of 7 variations here. From melismatic design via variations with rhythmic ostinatos, a march or a habaner...