Intermediate Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

Piano music occupies a small, but nevertheless musically important place in Janácek's oeuvre. Our edition of 'In the Mists' by the seasoned Janácek editor Jirí Zahrádka is an impressive example of thi...

The four-movement Suite op. 14 was composed in 1916 and was one of Bartók's favourite piano works throughout his life. Unlike in his other works for piano of these years, he did not use any folksong m...

The seven years that the Spanish composer Falla spent in Paris (from 1907 to 1914) marked a turning point in his compositions. His encounter with contemporary, French Impressionist music made a big im...

Based on the Prélude in c sharp minor Op. 3 No. 2 written in 1892 that quickly became world-famous, Rachmaninoff composed a further two collections of Préludes in the years up to 1910. These were also...

Arnold Schönberg's Piano Pieces op. 11 are a milestone in the development of piano music. Schönberg had also already composed other atonal works, but always for voice with sung text. By contrast the P...

Schönberg's Suite op. 25 of 1923 refers to pre-classical forms in its movement titles Präludium, Gavotte-Musette, Intermezzo, Menuett-Trio and Gigue, yet at the same time it was the first work to be...

The Eight Etudes op. 42 by Alexander Scriabin were composed during a phase of great productivity. For many years, teaching commitments had hampered the composer. Gradually, he was able to dispose of t...

My Magic Garden II is the sequel to the piano book My Magic Garden I. In this collection there are 18 different atmospheric pieces for piano with 2 hands and 4 pieces for piano with 4 hands. The 22 w...

Band 2 der praktischen Urtext-Ausgaben sämtlicher Werke für Klavier von Sergei Rachmaninoff präsentiert die Klavierkompositionen aus den 1890er Jahren auf der Grundlage des ungekürzten Notentexts aus...

Ein Muss für die genaue Auseinandersetzung mit den Rachmaninoff-Préludes! Band 3 der praktischen Urtext-Ausgaben sämtlicher Werke für Klavier von Sergei Rachmaninoff veröffentlicht im Anhang erstmals...

Rachmaninow fand es Zeit seines Lebens recht schwierig, kleine Stücke für Klavier zu komponieren. In einem Brief an N. S. Morozov (vom 30. Juli/11. August 1911) schreibt er in Bezug auf den Beginn sei...

Béla Bartók crowned his Mikrokosmos published in 1940 with Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm. On the one hand, they reflect manifold influences of Balkan folk music on the composer's oeuvre and, on the o...

A special volume celebrating the 40th anniversary of Yukie Nishimura’s debut is now available! Since making her recording debut with "Angelique" in 1986, Yukie Nishimura now celebrates 40 years of mus...

With this suite for brass quintet, David Sampson paints a striking musical portrait of Chesapeake Bay and the maritime world of Annapolis. In four contrasting movements, the composer creates colorful...

With this suite for brass quintet, David Sampson paints a striking musical portrait of Chesapeake Bay and the maritime world of Annapolis. In four contrasting movements, the composer creates colorful...

Furiose und erfrischende Komposition in einem Satz

Five fingers, five bodies, five smells at least. If i was a brass quintet (as a kind of multi limbed hive mind) this is the sound I would make. - Alex Paxton

In this exciting set of originals, Frackenpohl uses a distinctive combination of classic and contemporary forms, styles, meters and tonalities to feature the idiomatic strengths of experienced brass p...

After moving to Munich in 1947, Hans Winterberg made contact with German musical life, primarily with the help of former friends from his student days in Prague, such as Fritz Rieger, the chief conduc...

With her 24 Preludes for viola and piano ("Wanderer"), Lera Auerbach presented another major cycle of instrumental miniatures at the end of 2017. During an extended stay in Europe, which took her to S...

Johanna Senfter’s Duo, completed in 1956, is the last and at the same time most compact of her five compositions for viola and piano. The impressive work is in a classical A-B-A form. Two mostly calm,...

In 1932 Johanna Senfter wrote Sechs Stücke for the church holidays for viola and organ. She arranged five of them for viola and piano as well. They are remarkable, atmospheric and colourful character...

The Sonata F minor for viola and piano op. 41, completed in May 1922, still breathes the spirit of the grand master Reger and yet already goes its own way in terms of rhythm, harmony, modulation and f...