Schott Musik

As is the case with 'Trauermusik', there now exists an organ version of its sister work. Heribert Breuer, choir director and professor in Berlin, arranged the score for the organ, thus opening up furt...

These variations are among the most little-known works by Carl Maria von Weber. They are especially charming due to the harmonic ambiguity, primarily found in the piano accompaniment, that Weber weave...

When Weber offered the sonatas for violin and piano to the publisher André von Offenbach in 1810, the latter refused to print them because they were 'too good and demanding'. In order to reach as larg...

When Weber offered the sonatas for violin and piano to the publisher André von Offenbach in 1810, the latter refused to print them because they were 'too good and demanding'. In order to reach as larg...

When Weber offered the sonatas for violin and piano to the publisher André from Offenbach in 1810, the latter refused to print them because they were 'too good and demanding'. In order to reach as lar...

Year of composition: 2014

Kompositionsjahr: 2014

'Ri-Tratto, written on 12 October 2011 as a little birthday present for Hansheinz Schneeberger to whom I owe so many wonderful musical experiences: attempt of a portrait in the form of prelude and fug...

Chaya Czernowin wrote this composition for violin solo as early as 1981, it is thus one of her early works. The world premiere took place in Berlin in 1983, shortly after the Israeli composer had come...

In December 2015, Peter Eötvös composed his short work for violin solo which plays with hearing, perceiving and responding to musical structures. Inspired by a line from James Joyce's Ulysses, there i...

In December 2015, Peter Eötvös composed his short work for violin solo which plays with hearing, perceiving and responding to musical structures. Inspired by a line from James Joyce's Ulysses, there i...

This edition of the Violin Concerto in A minor is tailored to today's common style of violin playing as well as historically informed performance practice. Two violin parts are arranged, according to...

Heinz Holliger composed this short encore piece for the birthday of the famous Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair. Starting from a brief 'Happy Birthday' quotation, it soon turns towards the 'stagger...

The Belgian violinist, Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), with his impressive blend of virtuosity and poetry, was a great admirer of the young Debussy's music who led the Paris première of his only string quar...

This arrangement of the three-part collection published in 1905 is based on Fritz Kreisler's original version as well as later pianoforte transcriptions by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The harmonies, chromati...

This arrangement of the three-part collection published in 1905 is based on Fritz Kreisler's original version as well as later pianoforte transcriptions by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The harmonies, chromati...

Alexis Weissenberg (1929-2012) numbers among the most prominent pianists of the 20th Century. That he was also a composer is less well known, though he wrote a whole series of works, notably for his o...

The Danish Rhapsody for violin and organ by Naji Hakim is an evocation of his Sakskøbing Præludier for organ (2005). Here the 12 psalms are varied and linked in the same order and in one movement, sym...

'Introduction and Siberian Blues' komponierte Rosenblatt auf Wunsch von Victor Tretjakov als Pflichtstück für die zweite Runde seines zweiten Internationalen Geigenwettbewerbs in Krasnojarsk. Auf eine...

Four short pieces for violin and piano by Lili Boulanger have survived and are brought together in this book. In three instances the editors Elisabeth Weinzierl and Edmund Wächter have chosen to base...