Breitkopf & Haertel Orchestra Sheet Music

Sibelius' beginning as a symphonist. The content of Jean Sibelius' first orchestral works is influenced by Finnish legends (Kullervo, En saga). Even a few years later, he initially planned a multi-mov...

Virtanen, Timo - 2 versions, 1 first printing 'Cassazione op. 6' continues to be considered a Sibelius secret: both the hitherto unpublished version with large orchestra and the version with reduced i...

JSW - Jean Sibelius Complete Works (Ed.: National Library of Finland and Sibelius Society of Finland)

JSW - Jean Sibelius Sämtliche Werke (ed.: National Library of Finland and Sibelius Society of Finland) Lemminkäinen's 'Happy End' The four orchestral scores that come together in 'Lemminkäinen op. 22'...

Ed.: National Library of Finland and Sibelius Society of Finland The 'American' tone poems Jean Sibelius wrote his last two tone poems Aallottaret op. 73 and Tapiola op. 112 as commissioned works for...

In the end, Jean Sibelius wrote his Violin Concerto more or less twice. The differences between the original version of 1903/04, which the composer self-critically withdrew immediately after the first...

It seems hard to believe today that Bedrich Smetana initially met with repeated rejection when he wanted to promote the 'Moldau', which was extremely popular in the concert hall from the very beginnin...

Faust' Overture for the first time in the original text The question 'Why music to such accomplished poetry?' moved Schumann long and intensely. In 1844 his compositional approach to Goethe's 'Faust'...

The first performance of 'Luonnotar' took place on September 10, 1913 at the Shire Hall in Gloucester. It is one of his most important works. Luonnotar was written quite specifically with regard to th...

Early version February 1892 Insight into the Kullervo workshopFor almost a century, Jean Sibelius' own piano reductions of the two choral movements of the Kullervo Symphony op. 7 were forgotten. It wa...

Sibelius 'Zeroth' Symphony for the first time more than just a facsimile With the 'Kullervo' premiere in 1892, Jean Sibelius already announced his claim as a symphonist at the age of 27, far ahead of...

Joke or color code? Mozart composed all horn concertos for Joseph Leutgeb, a longtime friend of his family. In Salzburg, Leutgeb was a horn player and violinist in the court orchestra there, then went...

Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5, ed. by Albrecht Dürr Kalliwoda entered the classical heritage with his symphonic works - his first work was compared by contemporaries to Mozart's late symphonies. On the othe...

If anywhere, here is the symphonic interlude between the Unfinished and the C major symphonies, Alfred Einstein rates the first and most extensive of the three interludes.

The importance of the genre "overture" for Robert Schumann is shown by the creation chronology of his only opera. The composer notes "overture thoughts" as the first keyword in the household book and...

Die Revision der häufig gesungenen B-dur-Messe bringt gegenüber der älteren Breitkopf-Ausgabe eine große Zahl neuer Lesarten zutage.

The cycle Seven Early Songs, based on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets, was compiled in 1928, more than twenty years after the individual songs were composed. Alban Berg selected seven of...

Instrumentation: winds (2/2/2 - 4/1/0/0), timpani, harp + strings

Strauss third tone poem Don Juan was composed in spring 1888. This work is already an impressive demonstration of the composer's newly acquired confidence in mastering the orchestral apparatus. Alread...