Intermediate Sheet Music from Anton J. Benjamin

Bizets 'Kinderspiele' sind ein Klassiker der Musik für (bzw. mehr noch: über) Kinder. Heribert Breuer, Direktor der Berliner Bach Akademie und Herausgeber der gleichnamigen Edition im Verlag Simrock,...

Vierzig Jahre nach seiner Version der Kunst der Fuge für vier Quartette und Orgel hat Heribert Breuer nun auch das Schwesterwerk in ähnlicher Weise bearbeitet - für zwei Trios und Harfe. Durchhörbarke...

In 1953, the year of the world premiere, the press summed up the gist of the organ piece by the then not-yet-30-year-old composer as follows: 'Monumentally powerful, atonal chord patterns in the intro...

Natürlich bietet das Beethovensche Œuvre Streichquartetten reichlich Nahrung. Aber manches Ensemble mag sich danach sehnen, nach den üppigen Originalwerken der ernsten Gattung auch einmal einen leicht...

The fact that Ludwig van Beethoven who had written so many pieces for wind instruments left no compositions for wind quintet is regretted by many instrumentalists. Now, his Septet in E flat major Op....

Heribert Breuer has made a name for himself as an arranger of Baroque, classical and Romantic works. His sense of the special characteristics of each work shows in highly different instrumentations, a...

A simple folk-song theme inspired the Spanish composer and pianist Antonio Ruiz-Pipó (1934-97) to write 13 piano variations in which he takes up the wealth of colour, wit and virtuosity of an Albéniz...

The series of versions for wind quintet and double bass, published in the Edition Berliner Bach Akademie, now includes two more standard works for piano. While Mozart's Rondo is characterized by playi...

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 7).

Bertold Hummel composed the Concerto for Bassoon and String Orchestra first with the basset horn as solo instrument before arranging it for bassoon at the suggestion of Eberhard Buschmann. The piece i...

Tchaikovsky's work 'The Sleeping Beauty', in particular the famous waltz, is one of the master's most popular compositions. In the present lively concert version of the ballet, a narrator is assigned...

Sound and colour are of most importance to Heribert Breuer in this work. The interplay between wind trio and string trio throughout this cycleis of particular interest.

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 5)

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 6)

In terms of music history, the wind quintet genre is caught between two schools: 18th-century composers preferred the sextet or octet instrumentation with two equal instruments each for their wind div...

The Three Little Pieces for Strings are an early work, composed by Bertold Hummel for the joy of music-making. The degree of difficulty of this composition has intentionally been kept such that it can...

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 6).

This thrilling percussion study is characterized by enthusiasm, wit and rhythmic variety and should be met with great interest especially at music schools and among young percussionists.

Max Bruch schrieb sein Konzert für zwei Klaviere 1912 für ein amerikanisches Klavierduo, das es jedoch nur in einer umfassenden Bearbeitung aufführte. Erst 1976 kam es zur Veröffentlichung der Origina...

The Austrian-Hungarian Hans Gál (1890-1987) is one of the most important and most successful composers and musicologists of the 20th century. He studied in Vienna where he later worked as a teacher, c...

Entstanden nach Zeichnungen von Paul Klee aus den Jahren 1931, 1939 und 1940.