Intermediate Sheet Music from Bote & Bock

Hans Winterberg's 2nd String Quartet from 1942 is one of the few works that he was able to compose under unimaginable living conditions during the period of Nazi terror in Czechoslovakia. In that year...

Each of the four string quartets by the Bohemian composer Hans Winterberg (1901-1991) has its own unusual history. The first, composed in happy times in Prague in 1936, had to wait until 2024 for its...

Hans Winterberg's four string quartets were composed over a period of four decades between 1936 and 1961 and reflect the four stages of his eventful biography. He composed the first in what were proba...

Hans Winterberg's Streichtrio from 1960 is one of the composer's most substantial chamber music works. On the one hand, he achieves a fascinating symbiosis of the most important tendencies of German-A...

Hans Winterberg (1901–1991) composed his two trumpet suites at decisive turning points in his life– the first in December 1945 in Prague, a few months after his liberation from the Theresienstadt ghet...

Hans Winterberg has only recently been rediscovered as one of the most important representatives of the Czech avant-garde of the first half of the 20th century. Performed but not published during his...

Hans Winterberg's extraordinary life was written in two chapters, one Czech and one German, split right down the middle by the experience of the Shoah, which Winterberg, unlike his colleagues Ullmann,...

The term chiaroscuro (light-dark), which originates in painting, can be applied to Martin Christoph Redel's œuvre as a whole, with its clearly defined style full of contrast, its linearity, spatiality...

1963, im selben Jahr wie sein lebensfrohes Concerto da Camera für Klavier, Bläser und Schlagzeug entstanden, zählt Laks' 5. Streichquartett zu seinen musikalisch anspruchsvollsten Kompositionen, in de...

Erich Schmid (1907 - 2000) setzte sich als Orchesterdirigent, Chorleiter und Hochschullehrer für Uraufführungen und Radioübertragung zeitgenössischer Musik in der Schweiz ein. Er selbst studierte unte...

Tristanesque sounds, on the one hand, and a bossa nova rhythm, on the other hand, constitute, with a strong edge, the cells for this almost 3-minute piece for 3 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones and tuba...

Höller's piano anthology Doppelspiel for four hands is the result of the cultural capital project Piano Book. In 2010 the Piano Festival Ruhr commissioned renowned European composers to write new pian...

Tristanesque sounds, on the one hand, and a bossa nova rhythm, on the other hand, constitute, with a strong edge, the cells for this almost 3-minute piece for 3 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones and tuba...

In 1942, Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), the great Polish pianist and composer (and in 1919 prime minister of Poland for one year), was posthumously honoured with a deluxe edition for which many of...

Leon Gurvitch (*1979) schreibt und spielt Musik, die in der Klassik wurzelt und Einflüsse von russischer Folklore, orientalischer und lateinamerikanischer Musik bis zu Jazz und Klezmer aufnimmt. Das A...

The ensemble piece of about six minutes' duration was created in 2010/11 upon request of the Ensemble Horizonte (Detmold) and refers to the poem 'Die frühen Gräber' [The Early Graves] by Friedrich Got...

The ensemble piece of about six minutes' duration was created in 2010/11 upon request of the Ensemble Horizonte (Detmold) and refers to the poem 'Die frühen Gräber' [The Early Graves] by Friedrich Got...

The piece is part of the ballet Wild Swans, choreographed by Meryl Tankard at the Sydney Opera House in 2002, based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. Originally scored for s...

Romantic Offenbach. The title may come as a surprise, as the image of Offenbach as a composer of satirical operettas still dominates. With the Romantic Offenbach series, we want to focus on the other...

Zum 100. Geburtstag von Ursula Mamlok (1923-2016) gibt Boosey & Hawkes Bote & Bock in Zusammenarbeit mit der Dwight und Ursula Mamlok Stiftung eine Reihe zu Lebzeiten der Komponistin nicht publizierte...

Being Russian born I have a strong connection to the ballet scores of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, and as a result in the Wild Swans, more than in any other work of mine, I allowed myself th...

Simon Laks (1901-1983), who moved from Warsaw to Paris in 1926 at the age of 25, belonged to the large group of composers from Central and Eastern European countries who went down in 20th-century musi...

Das Stück ist ein Teil des Balletts Wild Swans, das Meryl Tankard 2002 im Opernhaus Sydney auf Grundlage des Märchens Die wilden Schwäne von Hans Christian Andersen choreographiert hat. Ursprünglich m...