Intermediate Sheet Music from Universal Edition

These realisations for the guitar of John Dowland's lute pieces are as authentic as possible, with clear fingering and notation. As such, this selection of contrasting pieces from one of England's mos...

Both of these arrangements are based on Weiss's manuscripts in the British Museum. Written originally for the lute, these two new arrangements will make fascinating additions to the guitarist's repert...

No other composer influenced Fernando Sor more than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Sor's Introduction and Variations, op. 9 are based on the aria 'Das klinget so herrlich' from the opera 'The Magic Flute'....

The Trois Pièces de Société, Op. 36 was Fernando Sor's second set of society pieces. Published in 1828, these consisted of six small characterful and entertaining pieces grouped into three pairs. They...

Although little is known about the Italian composer and violinist Giovanni Battista Marella, it is known that in 1750 he became concertmaster of the Band of Musick at the New Gardens in Dublin and lat...

The latest volume in the New Karl Scheit Guitar Edition presents another very attractive duo composition by Fernando Sor who was once referred to as the 'Schubert of the guitar'. The suggested fingeri...

I have developed a highly formalised compositional system, which I have been using to write my music for twenty years. Summa is the most strict and enigmatic work in this series, said Arvo Pärt in 199...

In his new album for piano four-hands, Mike Cornick recreates scenes in and around a quiet Devonshire village, reminiscing about his visits there as a child. Devonshire Sketches consists of five movem...

Die Komposition der 'Troisième Sonate' wurde 1957 von Pierre Boulez begonnen und bis 1963 fortgeführt, wo er die Arbeit daran aus verschiedenen Gründen abbrach. Einige Teile sind vollständig ausgeführ...

From a letter from Béla Bartók during the First World War: "I consider it my life's goal to continue and complete my studies of Romanian folk music, at least in Transylvania..." For the time being, ho...

With the help of these 40 pieces of medium difficulty piano students may train on important skills such as independence of both hands, velocity and flexibility of the fingers, crossing over and under...

Die Grundsätze, die den Herausgeber der vorliegenden Ausgabe der C. Ph. E. Bach'schen Clavierwerke geleitet haben, sind in einer besonderen Schrift niedergelegt, die unter dem Titel: Ein Beitrag zur O...

The 'Romanian Folk Dances' undoubtedly rank amongst Bartók's most popular compositions. The earliest version is scored for piano (1915) and was published by Universal Edition in 1918. ln the preparati...

Das Nächtliche ist ein Beitrag gerade des angelsächsischen Kulturraumes zu dieser Kunstrichtung, die bestrebt war, das Unsagbare zu sagen.

In preparing this revised edition the available manuscript sources have been compared with the latest printed edition and the discrepancies were analyzed. The manuscript sources are: 1. the sketch of...