Classical Sheet Music

This volume offers performance pieces for the more advanced classes in music schools, at the same time allowing a glimpse into the 19th-century music scene. Piano pieces have been arranged from popula...

The special pedagogical value of the character pieces in this volume is enhanced by the fact that they do not make technical demands beyond music school level. Thus, students are introduced to the wor...

The content of this volume consists partly of works that have survived in the composer's manuscript and are now published for the first time, and partly of the original versions of pieces that were pu...

The content of this volume consists partly of works that have survived in the composer's manuscript and are now published for the first time, and partly of the original versions of pieces that were pu...

Supplementary Volume 15 of the New Liszt Edition contains both earlier versions of published works and also several works that remained as manuscript. The most extensive work in this volume is the ear...

Supplementary Volume 15 of the New Liszt Edition contains both earlier versions of published works and also several works that remained as manuscript. The most extensive work in this volume is the ear...

Supplementary Volume 15 of the New Liszt Edition contains both earlier versions of published works and also several works that remained as manuscript. The most extensive work in this volume is the ear...

Bartók taught piano at the Music Academy in Budapest from 1907 to 1934. In his first years as a professor the Budapest music publishers Rozsnyai and Rózsavölgyi commissioned him to prepare so-called i...

Bartók taught piano at the Music Academy in Budapest from 1907 to 1934. In his first years as a professor the Budapest music publishers Rozsnyai and Rózsavölgyi commissioned him to prepare so-called i...

Péter Wolf (a doctoral graduate of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest) has composed a number of large-scale compositions in recent years which have had success at the hands of distinguished...

For György Kurtág, Mussorgsky's works have always been an important model. Several of his works contain pieces referring to Mussorgsky (Games III, The Small Snag), and in his opera, Fin de partie, he...

The piano series entitled Games, written from 1973 onwards, was conceived as a piano method. As the years went by, the series lost its didactic character, at it came to be seen as a document from Kurt...

Bartók's music is of paramount importance for all Hungarian composers of the last hundred years: in the works of György Kurtág we also find open or hidden references to the great predecessor at severa...

'These cadenzas were originally written for my son. Composing them, I summed up my own musical and performing experience of many decades, and my respect for Haydn's art. My intention was to follow the...

In his Sonata, Péter Wolf puts his style well-known from the character pieces of his previous piano series (Wolf-temperiertes Klavier, Jazz preludes) in the service of a demanding form. We can recogni...

PÉTER WOLF (1947) studied classical piano and jazz piano at the Béla Bartók Secondary School under Kornél Zempléni, Ferenc Rados and János Gonda. In 2015 he obtained his DLA degree from the Franz Lisz...

What could be the speciality of a genre to which so many different composers connected from Beethoven to Bartók, from Smetana to Kurtág? Is it lightness, brevity, transiency, or ambiguity? The French...

Máté Bella's piano piece Judas was composed for the STUDIO 5 creative group's concert 'Liszt In Another Way' in 2022, dedicated to pianist Fülöp Ránki. The composition is a paraphrase based on the ope...

Imre Mező (b. 1932) composed several popular works for children and young people studying music. His set of easy variations ''Miss Melody's Wardrobe,'' originally for piano solo (Z. 15119), has now ap...

Imre Mező (b. 1932) composed several popular works for children and young people studying music. His set of easy variations ''Miss Melody's Wardrobe,'' originally for piano solo (Z. 15119), has now ap...

'My piano piece was inspired by a jigsaw puzzle: the idea that a simple picture, consisting of many small, similar elements, can be put together not only in the traditional way, but by mixing the elem...

György Kurtág has been inspired at every stage of his career by studying masterpieces from earlier periods of music history. As a result, he has written numerous transcriptions of works by old masters...

If anyone knows how to engage and enchant children through notes, it is Péter Wolf. This album is the portrait of seven popular fairy tale characters in the language of music. Each individual characte...

I started to compose my piano pieces called Games in 1973. Until 1979, the publication of the first four volumes, these works existed only as manuscripts, on sheets of music paper. However, in 1974, I...

The piano series entitled Játékok/Games, written from 1973 onwards, was originally conceived as a piano method. As the years went by, the series lost its didactic character, and it came to be seen as...