Universal Edition Sheet Music

After a period of focusing on a cappella choral works, culminating in the substantial Kanon pokajanen, this is Arvo Pärt's first work for solo soprano and orchestra. He has chosen the verses of Psalms...

Studienpartitur - Fassung 1992/1997 wurde zurückgezogen.

Serebrier continues to impress fans of Janácek's music, both as conductor and, here, as interpreter. His orchestral distillation of Janácek's opera, The Makropulos Case, brings raves, both as an arran...

'In the Mandarin he finally breaks with the romantic tradition and also turns away from the artistic endeavours typical of the turn of the century. The pantomime reflects for the first time what Bartó...

Galánta is a small Hungarian market-town known to the travellers from Vienna to Budapest. The composer has passed there seven years of his childhood. There existed at that time a famous Gipsy-band whi...

Trio and the Miami String Quartet, to whom it is dedicated. String parts available on rental. For advanced ensembles. Duration: 24’

Text von Samuel Beckett

A 1995 orchestral work by the prolific Herr Rihm can be heard on YouTube, as performed by the Bamberger Symphoniker.

The three-movement piece has a traditional fast-slow-fast form, but with individual formal characteristics in each movement. In the very first movement, the soloist begins immediately after a tutti ch...

Universal Edition introduces a new study score standard. These completely redesigned scores offer an unparalleled insight into the music of the last hundred years. Great care has been taken to select...

The large-scale form of Symphony No. 9 is unusual in a number of ways. It reminds in no way of the ninth symphonies of famous predecessors. Two slow movements, an Andante comodo at the beginning and a...

Universal Edition continues its new study score standard. These completely redesigned scores offer an unparalleled insight into the music of the last hundred years. Great care has been taken to select...

Gustav Mahler’s 'Funeral Rites' (literally translated: 'Celebration of the Dead') was initially conceived as the first movement of a symphony in C minor and completed in 1888. After certain alteration...

The songs are conceived as a whole, as if a wayfarer, with his destiny, is now looking out into the world and is wandering from place to place. … The most painful experiences were bound to come… (Gust...

This edition is based on the fi rst printed score published in 1927 (Universal Edition UE 8943), and was compared with Kodály’s own conductor’s copy, three additional scores held in the Budapest Zoltá...