Classical Sheet Music for Orchestra

The fact that the Sibelius Symphony, which is now performed most often, provoked controversial aesthetic reactions after its first performances in Finland at the time seems almost inconceivable today.

Klaus Doege reevaluates the surviving sources. The result is an edition that precisely traces the many, often contradictory, readings between the autograph and the first printing in a text-critical ma...

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.

The new edition is based on the well-known piano reduction by the composer and organist Ernst Friedrich Richter, which Breitkopf & Härtel published in Leipzig in 1845. At that time, the publisher had...

UA Brussels, April 25, 1969

UA Hamburg, June 4, 1989

Premiere Frankfurt, November 24, 1991

Premiere Winterthur, September 30, 2000 CD Gustav Rivinius (violoncello), Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, cond. Hans Zender CD Dialoge ('Allianz Kulturstiftung')

With the 5 study scores 'Schumann: Complete Symphonies' a large edition project comes to an end. The slipcase contains the new editions (1993-2001) of the four symphonies according to the last hand ve...

After Schumann, now Brahms: the symphonies in a slipcase The score of the edition Johannes Brahms - Sämtliche Werke is still authoritative today - especially since the most important orchestral, piano...

The authentic new edition: text-critical and complete available for purchase (only edition with choral score and a historically legitimized piano reduction by Josef Zubaty)

With the new Breitkopf Urtext orchestral material, the 'Prague' symphony will sound somewhat different.

The premiere of 'Luonnotar' took place on September 10, 1913 at the Shire Hall in Gloucester. Luonnotar' is not only Sibelius' most important work for Ackté, it is one of his most important works ever...

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.

Urtext nach der Leipziger Mendelssohn-Gesamtausgabe 28' The land of artists is Germany after all, Mendelssohn wrote in 1831 of his trip from Italy, but here 'is the land of art', and so the 22-year-ol...

Jean-François Monnard’s Urtext edition is the first edition of La Valse that compares all relevant sources. The first edition of the score, published in 1921, was used as the source. Errors and incons...

In the preface, Monnard illuminates Ravel's sound aesthetic against the background of concert reception and historical recordings. In addition, the editor offers insights into Ravel's ideas about temp...

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...

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...

That Schumann truly dug his heels into symphonic creation becomes clear at the latest when we look not only at his four well-known symphonies, but also at the works between the genres, such as the Ove...

The question 'Why add music to such perfect poetry?' preoccupied Schumann long and intensively. His first compositional approach to Goethes 'Faust' began in 1844, but it was not until 1851 that he fin...

Schumann had already worked on Byron's Manfred as a law student, and the topic fascinated him from that time on. Perhaps he discovered a spiritual affinity to himself in the romantic hero's inner conf...

The Overture to Hermann and Dorothea is the only compositional result that Schumann reaped from Goethes epic poem. He had originally planned an entire opera, then a Singspiel, and finally an oratorio....