Nieweg Performance Editions - Kalmus

The BALLADE in A minor, Op. 33 is an early composition by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912). Written only a year after completing his education at the Royal College of Music, this one-movement work...

A five-movement suite originally written by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) for solo piano, MIROIRS ("Mirrors") was written between 1904 and 1905, with each movement dedicated to a fellow member of the Fren...

A five-movement suite originally written by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) for solo piano, MIROIRS ("Mirrors") was written between 1904 and 1905, with each movement dedicated to a fellow member of the Fren...

Sergei Prokofiev began work on Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 in 1916, but wrote most of it in 1917, completing the piece on September 10, 1917. The symphony was premiered on April 21, 1918 in Petr...

Originally written by Modest Mussorgsky for piano and orchestra, Night on Bald Mountain, alternatively Night on the Bare Mountain, was long left neglected by the composer. Having several musical itera...

Originally written by Modest Mussorgsky for piano and orchestra, Night on Bald Mountain, alternatively Night on the Bare Mountain, was long left neglected by the composer. Having several musical itera...

This Critical Edition by Clinton Nieweg of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) is a result of a collaboration among several major orchestras. This corrected edition succeeds in addressing the n...

Maurice Ravel's (1875-1937) longest work at almost an hour, the complete one-act ballet Daphnis et Chloé was described by the composer as a "symphonie choregraphique" (choreographic symphony). Ravel b...

This Critical Edition by Clinton Nieweg of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) is a result of a collaboration among several major orchestras. This corrected edition succeeds in addressing the n...

Maurice Ravel's (1875-1937) longest work at almost an hour, the complete one-act ballet Daphnis et Chloé was described by the composer as a "symphonie choregraphique" (choreographic symphony). Ravel b...

VERKLÄRTE NACHT (TRANSFIGURED NIGHT), Op. 4, originally written for string sextet in one movement, was composed by Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) in 1899. Composed in three weeks, it is one of Schoenbe...

VERKLÄRTE NACHT (TRANSFIGURED NIGHT), Op. 4, originally written for string sextet in one movement, was composed by Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) in 1899. Composed in three weeks, it is one of Schoenbe...

SAMSON AND DELILAH, originally conceived as an oratoria due to Saint-Saëns' admiration such works by Handel and Mendelssohn, was converted to an opera when the composer was convinced by a family membe...

From the end of Act 2 from Borodin's opera Prince Igor, which remained unfinished at the time of the composer's death in 1887, this most famous version of the Polovtsian Dances (or Polevetsian Dances)...

The rondo third movement of Niccolò Paganini's VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2 owes its nickname "La Clochette" or "La Campanella" ("Little Bell") to the little bell which plays before each recurrence of the ro...

Originally intended for solo violin and orchestra, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) later determined that the five Spanish folk melodies used in each of the movements of his Capriccio Espagnol woul...

The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, popularly known as the 'Organ Symphony', was completed in 1886 at what could be considered the artistic peak of Saint-Saens' career. The composer said of the work, 'I ga...

In 1875, Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) created an innovative four-part structure for his CONCERTO FOR PIANO NO. 4 IN C MINOR, OP. 44. Dedicating the work to Anton Door, the composer gave the first p...

Gabriel Fauré, then director of the Conservatoire de Paris, named Claude Debussy (1862-1918) to the Conservatoire's board of directors in 1909, and promptly commissioned two works from Debussy for the...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's (1873-1943) "Vocalise" was originally written in 1912 (revised in 1915) as the final movement in his 14 ROMANCES, Op. 34, for high voice with piano accompaniment. The work has be...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) wrote the first of his CINQ MÉLODIES POPULAIRES GRECQUES (Five Greek Folk Melodies) in 1904 at the urgent request of Pierre Aubry, who wished to illustrate a lecture he was g...

The Three-Cornered Hat is a two act ballet by Manuel de Falla that was commissioned by famed ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev and premiered in 1919. Incorporating Spanish dance rather than classical...

Sergei Prokofiev began work on Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 in 1916, but wrote most of it in 1917, completing the piece on September 10, 1917. The symphony was premiered on April 21, 1918 in Petr...