Classics Relaunched

Riccardo Drigo (1846-1930) is one of the most important ballet composers of the 19th century. The serenade from his ballet 'The Millions of Harlequins' was an evergreen for many decades. It has been s...

Kowalski's song cycles in the late romantic style received much attention and have been performed by great singers of his time. Hardly a poet was set into music as often as Herman Hesse. The musical v...

Kowalski's song cycles in the late romantic style received much attention and have been performed by great singers of his time. Hardly a poet was set into music as often as Herman Hesse. The musical v...

Max Kowalski (1882-1956) was born in Kowal in Poland (then Russia), but grew up in Frankfurt/Main. He studied law and graduated. He also studied singing and composition. Until 1938 he worked as a lawy...

1989 German folk songs were a general theme for the auditions of the 1st German Federal Music Festival. Fried Walter was commissioned to write the required pieces. He understood it, to wrest the Germa...

With this, in 1927 published 75 formulas, Alfred Baresel (1893-1984) reduced the popular exercises literature on their basic elements. Thus, students needed no costly technical piano works anymore, bu...

Mit den 1927 herausgegebenen 75 Formeln reduzierte Alfred Baresel (1893-1984) die gängige Übungsliteratur auf ihre Grundelemente. Damit benötigten die Schüler keine kostspieligen klaviertechnischen We...