Breitkopf & Haertel Orchestra Sheet Music

Of all his symphonies, Mahler gave the Fourth, his favorite and problem child, his most particular attention. 'The Heavenly Life,' a humoresque composed in 1892 for soprano and piano, which he already...

It has aroused passionate reactions ever since its premiere. To this day, Mahler's Fifth remains hard work for performers and listeners alike, as in addition to being an (almost) unsolvable problem fo...

Mahlers Neunte singt von Schönheit, Liebe und Vergänglichkeit. "Welt! Lebe wohl" notierte Mahler über den letzten Takten. Seine letzte vollendete Symphonie umarmt die Welt von Gestern und stößt zuglei...

The Song of the Earth, composed in the summer of 1908, is Mahler's best-known and most personal work. Reflecting drastic changes in his life, its immense emotional density is very moving. Until the ve...

In the fall of 1909 Sibelius wrote in his diary: 'At Koli! One of the greatest impressions in my life. Plans [for] 'La Montagne'!' These plans proved to be for the Fourth Symphony. The composition pro...

In this piece, the composer has employed the Zhong-hu (Alto Erhu) - the ancient instrument imported to China from Western Regions (the areas west of Yumenguan, including what is now Xinjiang and parts...

The famous Valse triste grew out of the incidental music to Arvid Järnefelts drama Kuolema (Death). After the first staged performances in December 1903 at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Si...

Richard Strauss's last completed tone poem is regarded as the pinnacle of his art of orchestration: "Now I've finally learned to orchestrate," he himself is once supposed to have said about it after t...

Indispensable repertoire work; first critical version; two versions of the ballad included in score and piano reduction Carl Reinecke was interested in exploring music and not just "snacking" on it. I...

The Easter oratorio BWV 249 was first performed on Easter Sunday 1725 with the text "Come, make haste and run". In the counting of the new BWV, this is already BWV 249.3, following two congratulatory...

From the Tang Dynasty to the present day, many artists, including BAI Xingjian (776 - 826), GUAN Hanqing (ca.1234 - 1300) and REN Tongxiang (1927 - 2002), have compared the name "A Rose" to an ordinar...

Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Series I (Orchestral Works) Volume 4.

Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Serie I (Orchesterwerke) Band 6 Gesamtausgabe (Schmidt-Beste, Thomas) The 'Italian', without ifs and buts As for the revision of the 'Italia...

Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Serie I (Orchesterwerke) Band 6A Gesamtausgabe (Schmidt-Beste, Th.) Subsequent Torso A curious setting problem: Mendelssohn is dissatisfied...

For the composition of the Christmas Oratorio, Johann Sebastian Bach made use of the parody procedure, as he did with other large vocal works, i.e., he fell back on previously composed movements (in t...

Complete Edition (Schmidt, Christian Martin) Documents on the 'Pre-pre-premiere' The 'Elijah Early Versions' document a decade that stretches from the first conceptual thoughts in 1837, directly after...

Urtext nach der Leipziger Mendelssohn-Gesamtausgabe. Mendelssohns "Lauda Sion" MWV A 24 ist eine nahezu komplette Vertonung der Sequenz zu Fronleichnam für Soli, Chor und Orchester. Es entstand als Au...

The Passion Oratorio Gethsemane and Golgotha was written in the astonishingly short time from July 22 to 28, 1838, with texts by the preacher Wilhelm Schuber, a close friend of Friedrich Schneider. Th...