Classical Instrumental Works for Orchestra

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edited by Martin Schmeling

The new edition is based on the autograph and contemporary voice material as authentic sources.

The main differences from the available editions concern mainly articulation and dynamics in movements 1, 2 and 4. This Critical Report is a treasure trove for the practitioner ...

As with the other Beethoven reissues by Clive Brown and Peter Hauschild, the editor does not mechanically align the often very different indications in the sources for the 4th Symphony.

Schumann, The Symphonies 5 study scores in slipcase

Urtext nach der Leipziger Mendelssohn-Gesamtausgabe 28' 2.2.2.2. - 2.2.0.0. - Pk - Str - (Schmidt-Beste, Thomas). The land of artists is Germany, Mendelssohn wrote in 1831 of his trip from Italy, but...

With the performance materials for the Mendelssohn Complete Edition (LMA), the publisher fulfills its announcement to draw consequences as soon as possible after the publication of a complete edition...

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Russian music researcher Polina Vajdman has gone back to all relevant sources in her editing.

The score and orchestral parts are available for purchase for the first time in a new edition of La Mer.

The much-played 'Scottish', which incidentally Mendelssohn never called so, appears in the Urtext edition in a new light.

For the 'Fidelio' overture, composed at lightning speed in 1814, a copy of the score in the Austrian National Library today provides a reliable basis for a new text-critical edition.

Schumann's 'Sinfonietta' in the Urtext The intensity with which Schumann dealt with the symphony is shown not only by the four known works themselves, but also by compositions that stand between the g...

Click here for the original version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Ravel's ingenious compositional interpretation is still the best-known and most independent orchestration of Pictures at...

On their way to Salzburg, Constanze and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a stopover in Linz in the fall of 1783. The stay was productive: the 13-voice, four-movement Linz Symphony was created. To compose...

Ravel's multi-layered homage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his homage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel turns less to Couperin himself than to French music of the 18th century. On the other hand, editor Je...

Gewiss hatte Robert Schumann recht, als er bald nach Beethovens Tod konstatierte, dass dessen Konzeption von der Sinfonie als großem, universellem Bekenntniswerk von der nächsten Komponistengeneration...

Die Ouvertüre zu Ruy Blas, die letzte von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy komponierte Ouvertüre, ist nicht als frei konzipierte Partitur, sondern als Eröffnungsstück einer Bühnenmusik entstanden. Allerdin...

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...

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his 'Don Juan') of his reputation and above all of his 'value' as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by...