Master String Series - LudwigMasters

This Mozart-inspired work, completed in January of 1877, was the first composition by Tchaikovsky for cello and orchestra. While for many the years, Variations on a Rococo Theme was only known in a ve...

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) wrote Siete canciones populares españolas (Seven Spanish Folksings) in 1914, originally for soprano and piano. This transcription for cello and piano and been completed by...

The music of Bohemian cellist and composer David Popper (1843-1913) is virtuosic and charming, but only a select few pieces out of his vast output have come to be known by audiences and cellists alike...

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11, was originally written in 1871. The standout melancholic second movement, Andante cantabile (Bb major), based on a folk song whistled by...

The Variazioni di Bravura is a version for violin and guitar (or piano) of Niccolò Paganini's (1782-1840) most famous work, Caprice, Op. 1, No. 24. Reprint of guitarist Erwin Schwarz-Reiflingen's (189...

Niccolò Paganini's (1782-1840) wrote two installments (Op. 2 and Op. 3) of six sonatas each for violin and guitar between 1805 and 1809 while he lived in Florence with a guitar-playing noblewoman. Pag...

Niccolò Paganini's (1782-1840) lovely Sonata Concertata for Guitar and Violin, Op. 61, MS 2, written in 1803, is more reminiscent of Mozart or Haydn rather than the Paganini of his 24 Caprices or Viol...

Considered an homage to Brahms' Piano Quintet, Op. 34, Amy Beach's Quintet, Op. 67, was critically acclaimed upon reception and is now regarded as a milestone of American chamber literature.

The piano trio version of LA MUSE ET LE POÈTE, Op. 132 was written by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) in 1910 during a vacation to North Africa, and that version premiered at Queen's Hall on June 7, 1...

This celebrated harp solo by Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Op. 110, was composed in 1918. The title, UNE CHÂTELAINE EN SA TOUR (A LADY IN HER TOWER), comes from a line in a poem by Paul Verlaine.

Walter Hoeckner (Höckner) compiled these collections of string trios to offer beginners suitable music for ensemble playing at home. The original movements are compiled from the right but forgotten st...

This collection of five original moderately difficult string trios has been compiled and edited by Walter Hoeckner (Höckner) and Hans Mlynarczyk. Included: 1. Notturno by Wolfgang Kirmayr (?-1795); 2....

Duet arrangement of Handel's Passacaglia from "Suite in G minor" HWV 432, originally for keyboard. Versions for Violin & Viola and Violin & Violoncello available from the publisher.

Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) composed these SIX TRIOS for violin, viola, and violoncello in 1793. While they were published as Op. 38, in Boccherini's own autograph catalog, he lists it as Op. 47, whi...

Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960), composer, pianist and conductor, left his native Hungary after World War II. From 1949 until his death, he was Professor of Piano and Composition at Florida State Unive...

Alban Berg's (1885-1935) String Quartet, Op. 3, was written in 1910, though it would remain unpublished for another ten years. In two movements, it is among Berg's most original compositions and is co...

Here is one of the most beautiful moments in all of opera! This arrangement creates a big, lush sound by writing divisi into every section but the basses with some brief solo passages for the concertm...

FOUR SHORT PIECES, H. 104 for violin and piano was written by Frank Bridge (1879-1941) in 1912. Movements: 1. Meditation; 2. Spring Song; 3. Lullaby; 4. Country Dance. Reprint edition.

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) completed these two companion works for violin and piano around 1890. Among Elgar's most popular melodies, the dreamy Chanson de nuit (Night Song) and more cheerful Chanson de...

Edited by the famed Soviet-era teacher and violinist, Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fortunatov, this collection of nine works works for violin and piano and three works for two violins and piano have been...

One of his longer works and the last to see immediate popularity, Edward Elgar's (1857-1934) Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 has always found its way on concert programs, even when Elgar's works fe...

A violin and piano transcription of one of Claude Debussy's earliest impressionistic works for piano, containing hints of the composer's developing musical style.

Inspired by Spanish folk music idioms, Isaac Albeniz wrote "Three Spanish Dances". This version is for Violin and Piano. Mallorca (Barcarola), Zambra granadina (Danza oriental), Puerta de tierra (Bole...

This multi-volume collection of Classical Manuscripts includes eighteen violin solos with piano accompaniment, each written in the style of another composer. Book 2 includes: 6. Sicilienne and Rigaudo...