Sheet Music for Instruments

Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705-1770) was born in Paris and entered the court orchestra of Versailles as a violinist in 1737. As a composer he was influenced by Corelli and apparently self-taught.This...

On 11 August 2011 it is fifty years since the death of the composer Johanna Senfter from Oppenheim who actually was a trained violinist for she had studied with renowned violinists at the Hoch Conserv...

Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) was a pupil of Max Reger.Beginning with an expressive violin theme in a densely packed, 'Brahms-like' piano setting, the classical four-movement work centres around two cap...

The edition 'Klangblumen' by Barbara Heller (originally for piano, ED 20374) is now available for flute too.Each of the 14 pieces has a particular focus, such as a certain interval, a special playing...

In the time of travelling violin virtuosos in the 19th century, the Belgian composer Henri Vieuxtemps was regarded as one of the 'greatest', next to Paganini, Spohr, Bériot, Wieniawski and others. His...

'In an easier style, intended rather for its use at home than for concert performances', this is how Bedrich Smetana described his two 'duos' for violin and piano Aus der Heimat, written 'in a truly n...

Like Holliger's standard work Trema (a piece made up of theme, tremolo and breathing), Souvenirs tremaësques too can be played by various instruments of the string family. After the original version f...

Deep Slavic emotion and riveting virtuosity - this is what characterises many compositions by Rodion Shchedrin. Even though he has been a cosmopolitan for a long time, the Moscow-born Shchedrin has re...

The compositions published here for the first time are highly interesting, especially because they represent two creative periods: Poème lyrique was written in the 1910s and is a proof of the composer...

The Vienna-born Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) felt at home in the coffee houses of his home town where he not only met the cultural elite of his time but also absorbed the entertainment and folk music of...

Mikis Theodorakis schrieb seine Drei Stücke für Dezember - parallel zu einem weiteren Werk für Klavier und Gesang mit dem Titel Die Kundgebung am 3. Dezember (1944) - am Jahreswechsel 1945/46. Ihr the...

This charming little piece was written as a present for a young violin pupil. It is well suited as an encore piece. The imploring and archaic-daring dance offers the performers all sorts of effective...

'Vox amoris', apart from 'Tala gaisma' (Distant Light), is Vasks' second violin concerto with string orchestra accompaniment. The world premiere of this Fantasia per violino ed archi, as Vasks calls t...

In this composition Barbara Heller uses the song Lalai created in Tehran in 1973. It is a song of resistance against the Shah regime and is about a mother who sings a lullaby to her child and tells th...

Jean Marie Leclair l'a?'ne (1697-1764) wurde in Lyon geboren. Er studierte u.a. in Turin bei J. B. Somis, einem Schüler Corellis, lebte ab 1728 dauernd in Paris und war bis 1736 als Geiger der kgl. Ka...

I wrote the first movement of my Sommersonate in the summer of 2010, and though a self-contained work, it called out for continuation or a companion piece. I imagine the first movement, marked moderat...

In his 'Poèmes', the composer Eduard Pütz (19011-2000) from Cologne bases his compositions on texts by Shakespeare, Petrarca, Mayakovsky, Heine and Verlaine. Great evocative music based on impressive...

'Zauberei, Magie, Mythen, Legenden, dies sind die großen Themen barocker Opern - Ausdruck der Sehnsucht jener Zeit, sich durch die Illusion der Oper dem Phantastischen hingeben zu können. Diese unverk...

Leclair gehört zu den großen klassischen Meistern der Violine; unter den französischen Komponisten für dieses Instrument steht er an erster Stelle.

Josef Suk (1824-1935) was a bit in the shadow of the two famous Czech composers Antonín Dvorák and Bedrích Smetana. This affected Suk especially because Dvorák was also his father-in-law, a fact that...