Piano Excerpts

As concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for many decades, violin virtuoso Ferdinand David was a close friend of Felix Mendelssohn, who wrote his famous Violin Concerto for him. David was...

At the end of the 18th century, the Viennese court trumpeter Anton Weidinger (1767-1852) invented the 'Klappentrompete' keyed trumpet, which allowed the trumpet to play the octave in chromatic (half-s...

Hummel's Trumpet Concerto is still one of the most popular concertos for this instrument. He composed it in 1803 for the Viennese court trumpeter Anton Waidinger, whose newly developed key-trumpet ena...

Concerto for violin and orchestra. Piano reduction based on the Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. Violin solo, Oboe (2), Horn (2), Strings - Piano reduction

Concerto for violin and orchestra. Piano reduction based on the Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. Violin solo, Oboe (2), Horn (2), Strings - Piano reduction

The Authoritative Performing Edition: > New easy to play keyboard reduction > Violin part with the Urtext of the New Mozart Edition > Additional violin part with fingerings, bowings and performance co...

From the cycle 'L'Estro Armonico'. The 12 Violin Concertos op. 3 established the fame of Antonio Vivaldi all over Europe and - along with the Four Seasons - are still among the most popular works by t...

This highly virtuosic concert piece, composed in 1863, is one of the works that Saint-Saëns wrote especially for his friend Pablo de Sarasate. The great violin virtuosos of the 19th century delighted...

With marked and unmarked string part 1873 was a turning point for Dvorák. Precipitated by the rejection of his opera 'The King and the Charcoal Burner', he tried to give his compositions a new directi...

A fun and virtuoso piece which presents the famous themes of the opera 'Carmen' by Bizet, sometimes in a surprising way...

The rediscovery of this concerto by the Bohemian composer is certainly a surprise for the violists particularly since there is only very little original literature from the classical epoch. As violist...

Franz Benda belongs to the so-called Berlin or North German School which became extremely significant in the second half of the 18th century particularly in the field of instrumental music and which m...

Practice tackles head-on the myriad challenges involved in mastering the violin. Drawing upon a wide range of judiciously chosen examples from the musical literature, Simon Fischer describes and expla...

Camelot, the 1960 musical by Lerner and Loewe, is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White novel The Once and Future King. The main conflict of the novel and the play is the aff...

SIX the musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss has been hailed as, 'the most uplifting piece of new British musical theatre' (The Evening Standard) and is the phenomenon everyone is losing their head ov...

Ein Musical für Kinder. Frei nach den Erzählungen von Lewis Carroll 'Alice im Wunderland' und 'Alice hinter den Spiegeln' - Ges, Orch

Kurt Weill’s Songspiel Mahagonny was commissioned by the music festival 'Deutsche Kammermusik' in Baden-Baden and premiered in 1927. The poetry collection 'Hauspostille' (domestic breviary) by Bertold...

John Williams won his first Oscar® for his scoring and adaptation of Jerry Bock's original music for Fiddler on the Roof. Here is the music he wrote for the opening credits and establishing scenes, pe...

Text by Franc-Nohain Place and time: The plot takes place in Toledo, in the 18th century Characters: Concepción, Torquemada's wife (Soprano) - Gonzalve, bachelier (Tenor) - Torquemada, clockmaker (Tri...

Dresdner und Pariser Fassung in Szenenfolge - (Klavierauszug) - Sopran solo (5), Alt solo (2), Tenor solo (4), Bariton solo, Bass solo (3), Gemischter Chor, Klavier - Klavierauszug