Intermediate Sheet Music from Schott Musik

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 8)

In this composition Barbara Heller uses the song Lalai created in Tehran in 1973. It is a song of resistance against the Shah regime and is about a mother who sings a lullaby to her child and tells th...

The edition is part of teh ABRSM syllabus (grade 8)

Who does not remember the humorous stories by Wilhelm Busch from childhood days? Or, worse even, has not met 'hostile neighbours' once in his/her life as a musician? With subtle irony, Wilfried Hiller...

Deep Slavic emotions and gripping virtuosity - that's what characterizes many compositions by Rodion Shchedrin. Even if he has been a cosmopolitan for a long time, the Moscow-born composer nevertheles...

Apart from the famous Rococo Variations, Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky composed another work for solo violoncello: Pezzo capriccioso, Opus 62. It is dedicated to Brandoukoff (Brandukov) with whom he had perfor...

The popularity of his (first) violin concerto drove Max Bruch not just almost to despair - 'I cannot listen to this concerto any more', he wrote to his publisher - it also got in the way of the compos...

Scent Dance II für Viola solo basiert auf der Fassung für Violoncello aus dem Jahr 2010. Inspiriert wurde das vielschichtig virtuose Werk durch Xuntian Hes Gedicht Passing by the Earth, in dem der Aut...

The Moscow-based composer Alexander Rosenblatt writes music that ranges between classical and jazz music. His composition 'Waltz Elegy' is an expressive piece full of melancholy, a 'song without words...

As is the case with 'Trauermusik', there now exists an organ version of its sister work. Heribert Breuer, choir director and professor in Berlin, arranged the score for the organ, thus opening up furt...

Since the last movement of this piece, which is perhaps the most beautiful of Hindemith's pieces, is a chorale, a version for string instrument plus organ is the obvious work to publish. Thus, 'Trauer...

Eine frühe Komposition von Aribert Reimann: Das knapp vierminütige Werk für Violoncello und Klavier verbindet ein elegisches Adagio mit gewohnt anspruchsvoller Rhythmik - jetzt als Neuauflage erschien...

Enjott Schneider's Concerto for violoncello takes up the Sumerian legend of the bird deity 'Dugud' in archaic scenes. Legend has it that Princess Emeshe was impregnated by the hermaphrodite - half eag...

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

In metamophorically dense images, Anna Rancane describes in her poem Latvija the past sufferings and residual wounds of the Latvian people through war and occupation. Peteris Vasks has sensitively set...

The fact that one of the outstanding composers of the second half of the 20th century writes cadenzas for flute concertos by Mozart can be regarded as a curiosity. For Zimmermann, it was a good turn f...