Schott Musik

It is no secret that the majority of piano owners, in addition to playing classical music, would also like to play popular standards and pop songs, just like the piano player in a bar or cocktail loun...

Heinz Holliger has dealt intensively with Friedrich Hölderlin and Robert Schumann. The third movement of his Partita, a Barcarole, is preceded by the motto: 'We should let ourselves be cradled As if o...

Here is a journey through life in miniature. By the time the morning melody from the beginning sounds again at the end of Killmayer's musical 'Tales of this life and beyond', we have experienced many...

Xiaogang Ye (b. 1955) is one of the best-known composers in China. He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music of China, won First Prize in the Alexander Tscherepnin Composition Competition and at...

Dieser Band enthält 70 beliebte Lieder und Songs mit Text, in leichten bis mittelschweren Bearbeitungen, Melodien, die man gerne spielt bzw. vorspielt und gemeinsam singt. Er ist nach Themenkomplexen...

Die Vier Präludien sind aus dem Originalwerk 'Tristan, preludes für klavier, tonbänder und orchester' herausgelöste, vorwiegend solistische Teile mit geringen Änderungen.

'Fleurs du mal' ostensibly fits into the traditional pattern of the three-movement piano sonata and conforms to rudimentary sonata form. Yet the formal restrictions - including the predominance of the...

In 'Theme with Variations' composed in 1996 Tatyana Komarova uses a simple cantabile 11-bar theme alternating between 2/4 and 3/4 time. The seven variations are of different length, ranging between 8...

Increasing numbers of recent studies provide evidence that learning to play an instrument stimulates the intelligence and promotes a general aptitude for learning. Paul Dessau realised this as early a...

I often played Berio's Erdenklavier in my childhood, which is why I wrote this short epigram to take leave of the Maestro and Friend who is playing on a Himmelklavier now. From 1979 I worked many time...

The studies and study works by Carl Czerny (1791-1857) are part of the standard repertoire of piano lessons. These collections count among the most popular and most important works in piano education.

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

This piece was composed by Jörg Widmann for the Italian pianist Irene Russo in 2003. Consisting only of sharp pulse patterns and their lingering sound, it explores the tonal possibilities of the whole...

Experience a true pianistic tour de force full of energy, brilliance, and expressive power with this masterly "Toccata" from the renowned publisher Schott Musik! This composition unleashes the full so...

Lichtstudie III ist eine Studie zur Variabilität pianistischer Clusterbildungen. Inspiriert von den Raum-Licht-Installationen James Turrells wird eine Statik von Klangflächen erprobt, ein introspektiv...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

Improvised and also composed solo cadenzas, normally occuring towards the end of a bravura aria or an instrumental concerto movement, have existed since the late 16th century. They provide the perform...

More than 50 little waltzes for piano, easily playable in lessons or for the player's own pleasure. The composer has grouped the pieces according to the weekdays, wishing for the lively form of the wa...

'White Keys - Black Keys' was written by Barbara Heller in December 2003 for a pianist who likes to improvise and loves a certain freedom in a work. Although an order of the parts is pre-determined in...

For centuries, people have written diaries, confiding in them how much money they had spent on cigarettes or how delightful the walk the previous evening had been. Composers write music in their diari...

The exceptional pianist Marc-André Hamelin has written this arrangement of the Brazilian world hit Tico Tico no Fubá for piano solo. Using all means of classical virtuoso piano playing, Hamelin has Ti...

The combination of cantabile elements and tight staccato rhythm, typical of Shchedrin's piano music, makes this 'little' sonata an effective, yet quite easily playable piece. It is unmistakable that t...