Schott Musik

Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Lieder des Abschieds op. 14 were composed in 1920–1921, immediately after his most famous opera Die tote Stadt and in close proximity to the Piano Quintet, op. 15. The close...

Kapustin combines his flair for swinging melodies and improvised harmonies in this work. Intrada and Finale is a welcome challenge for sextet formations, but enchants musicians and audience with its l...

The Sonata for clarinet, viola, horn and piano, op. 37 was composed in 1920 (at the latest). The violist Michael Balling, a friend of Johanna Senfter, wrote to the composer about the work, which he ha...

Zimmermann’s original Konfigurationen are of course influenced by Anton Webern’s structural thinking, but draw their tonal charm to a large extent from the highly nuanced handling of resonances throug...

Zimmermann’s original Konfigurationen are of course influenced by Anton Webern’s structural thinking, but draw their tonal charm to a large extent from the highly nuanced handling of resonances throug...

In this piece, I channel my thoughts for all the people who have suffered and are suffering as a result of Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine. Due to unfortunate events, there is an additional de...

Written on Kihnu Island, where I am from, this piece is dedicated to Ensemble Floridante. Altum – Latin for "depth, vastness, height, the profound" – holds multiple meanings, each unfolding in its own...

Scent Dance V joins four other works by composer Xuntian He under the same title, which he wrote for different instruments. In addition to works for clarinet solo, viola solo, violoncello solo, piano...

Wind Dances is in seven short contrasting movements, each containing dance-like rhythms, both slow and fast. Having two sons who both play the clarinet, I've heard many a woodwind quintet, so I've bee...

Wind Dances is in seven short contrasting movements, each containing dance-like rhythms, both slow and fast. Having two sons who both play the clarinet, I've heard many a woodwind quintet, so I've bee...

Light, Line, Shadow is a response to Edward Hopper's iconic painting Road and Trees, a painting donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Daniel Dietrich II, and the first Hopper painting acquired...

Light, Line, Shadow is a response to Edward Hopper's iconic painting Road and Trees, a painting donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Daniel Dietrich II, and the first Hopper painting acquired...

The Tower and the Garden is a setting of three poems for choir and string quartet. The texts juxtapose the dangers of technological hubris (the tower) and the need for a place of refuge (the garden) i...

Lei Liang's Déjà vu is a one-movement hypnotic dialogue between the violin and percussion. The instrumental writing is intricate yet, at times, explosive. The work contains numerous passages of improv...

Close your eyes is a phrase my then 5-year-old son Albert once said, before he handed me a surprise present. I also think of it as an invitation to experiencing a world illuminated by sounds, or by ot...

I kept restarting this piece over the course of a couple of years, while it was subject to a series of pandemic-era postponements. None of my ideas felt right for these times of precarity, suffering,...