Schott Musik

During her time at the Munich Youth Music School in the 1960s, the composer Barbara Heller, born in 1936, wrote numerous piano works for beginners and advanced pupils. Being an experienced teacher, sh...

The richly varied concert piece shows how well the composer, himself a brilliant piano player, knows how to use the instrument. His polyphonic, complex compositional style gives way to various possibi...

The first songbook by Abdullah Ibrahim contains 15 atmospheric songs for piano. African Songs - draws on pulsing rhythms, bluesy melodies and evocative ballads.Abdullah Ibrahim was born in Capetown. H...

The fun and fascination with disguising oneself to be someone else for a moment has been expressed many times in music through compositions such as Un ballo in maschera, Masquerade or Carnaval. In the...

Widmann's Intermezzi are influenced by the famous cycles of Johannes Brahms (Op. 116 - Op. 119) which are cited quite frequently. In the preface of the edition, Widmann hints at its 'unsettling reduct...

Anyone who hears the name of Scott Joplin immediately thinks of the ragtime which is inseparably connected with this composer, particularly since the film The Sting has triggered a real renaissance of...

Songs for Piano' is an exclusive selection of music from Mikis Theodorakis` song cycles, ballets and films such as 'Zorba the Greek', and from the oratorio 'Axion Esti'. Inspired by ancient Greek myth...

Der 1956 in Moskau geborene Alexander Rosenblatt absolvierte am renommierten Konservatorium seiner Heimatstadt ein Klavier- und Kompositionsstudium. In seiner Tonsprache verbindet er klassische Elemen...

Eduard Pütz was inspired to write this piano piece by the poem 'Hälfte des Lebens' by Friedrich Hölderlin. In this composition, the two thoughts of the fullness of life (youth) and the expectation of...

Georg Kreisler has become known to a wide audience as a satirist. But today, only few still know his purely pianistic oeuvre of high virtuoso quality. 'My piano sonata is difficult to play, but when I...

What do these bagatelles want, what are they supposed to do? As a matter of fact, only that they are played as well as possible and that they are listened to as well as possible. They want to be good...

At the age of 16, Georg Kreisler was forced to leave his home country and set off to an uncertain future. 'Then I was in exile in New York, had little money and much hunger and tried to cheer myself u...

Hans-Günter Heumann, Germany's best known author of piano books, has made himself a dream come true with his debut album Live Your Dream. After his best-selling publications in the field of music educ...

The anthology La donna è mobile is the follow-up volume to the best-seller Eine kleine Nachtmusik with masterpieces of classical music (ED 20764). The latest volume in the Pianissimo series contains 5...