Classical Instrumental Works for Orchestra

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...

Schumann, The Symphonies 5 study scores in slipcase

Schumann, The Symphonies 5 study scores in slipcase

Urtext despite carelessly notated autograph Mozart's late Symphony in E-flat major was composed in 1788, presumably for academy concerts that did not materialize. The new edition is based on the only...

Jean-François Monnard's new Urtext edition is based for the first time on a scholarly comparison of sources. It is based on Ravel's first draft of the score and his final handwritten score.

Urtext of the 'Revolution Overture' The overture to 'Hermann and Dorothea' is Schumann's only compositional result to Goethe's verse epic. Originally he planned a whole opera, then a Singspiel, finall...

With Cesar Franck's only symphony, a central repertoire work of the late Romantic period finds its way into the new orchestral editions that Breitkopf & Härtel has placed under the heading of 'source...

Immediately after the 12 string symphonies (1821-1823), the 15-year-old Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wrote a 'Sinfonia XIII' in C minor in March 1824.

Overture to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' revealed by Mendelssohn's autograph

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...

Jean-François Monnard's Urtext edition is the first edition of La Valse that compares all relevant sources. The first printing of the score, published in 1921, served as a model.

Some of the songs appeared in 1933 or 1937 in editions that are difficult to obtain today and, moreover, are not entirely reliable; in the case of Greisengesang and the first version of Ellens zweiter...

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

Marche fatale is a incautiously daring escapade that may annoy the fans of my compositions more than my earlier works, many of which have prevailed only after scandals at their world premieres. My Mar...

My own new orchestral composition has the title 'WRITING'. The practical action of writing, as a mechanical action by hand, pen, brush, on a surface (paper, parchment, stone, etc.), triggered and cont...

Mendelssohn's overture was inspired by two poems by Goethe, which had already inspired Ludwig van Beethoven to write a choral work accompanied by orchestra. The main work on this piece probably took p...

Urtext-Neuland: Die Ouvertüre Leonore Nr. 3 To this day, the two central Fidelio overtures are performed from musical texts that date back to the inaccurate and erroneous first printings of the parts....

... without a warm feeling of love' 'Tchaikovsky urtext' is no longer a rarity in the Breitkopf orchestral catalog. Polina Vajdman edits an extremely popular repertoire work, which the composer himsel...

A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...