Scores for Orchestra

The genesis and source history of Beethoven's 'Choral Fantasy' is convoluted and poses considerable difficulties for today's research. A definitive 'last hand version' does not exist.

This key work offers a convoluted (and at the same time incomplete) source material. The autograph is lost.

Hauschild's new edition is based on all important primary sources: autograph, first printing of parts, score copies supervised by Beethoven, and finally the first printing of the score.

The genesis and source history of Beethoven's 'Choral Fantasy' is convoluted and poses considerable difficulties for today's research. A definitive 'last hand version' does not exist.

Schumann, The Symphonies 5 study scores in slipcase

The first set of Slavonic Dances, edited by Dvorak expert Klaus Döge, constituted a small series of works in 1996, which continued to grow in the following years.

Oh, the tempi! A terrible thing!, Dvorák repeatedly complained. Not without reason, as the renowned Dvorák expert Klaus Döge found in the edition of the '8th'.

Complete for the first time: Mozart's 'zeroth' Horn ConcertoWhen two sheets with 60 additional measures to the well-known Rondo K. 371 appeared in 1988, it was a sensational discovery.

Cliff Eisen is responsible for a secure original text based on the autograph and knowledge of historical performance practice. Andrew Manze completes the edition with his instrumentally appropriate an...

The triple 'Hafner-Musique' Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the Hafner Symphony K. 385 in the summer of 1782 on the occasion of the nobilization of his friend and patron Sigmund Hafner. In addition t...

For the premiere in London on May 14, 1832, he prepared a fundamental new version, and Mendelssohn continued to fine-tune details until the first printing of the score, which was published by Breitkop...

A visit to the opera provided the impetus for dealing with the fairy-tale theme of the knight Raimund's love for the beautiful mermaid Melusine, which forms the basis of Mendelssohn's fourth concert o...

… a forest god in New York The symphonic poem Tapiola is the final major composition for orchestra that Sibelius was able to complete and publish. In January 1926 he had accepted the commission from t...

Gewiss hatte Robert Schumann recht, als er bald nach Beethovens Tod konstatierte, dass dessen Konzeption von der Sinfonie als großem, universellem Bekenntniswerk von der nächsten Komponistengeneration...

Die Ouvertüre zu Ruy Blas, die letzte von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy komponierte Ouvertüre, ist nicht als frei konzipierte Partitur, sondern als Eröffnungsstück einer Bühnenmusik entstanden. Allerdin...

Mahlers Neunte singt von Schönheit, Liebe und Vergänglichkeit. "Welt! Lebe wohl" notierte Mahler über den letzten Takten. Seine letzte vollendete Symphonie umarmt die Welt von Gestern und stößt zuglei...

Johann Sebastian Bachs Magnificat BWV 243 ist eine opulente Festmusik, die in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Besonderheit in seinem Œuvre darstellt. Die erste Fassung (Es-dur, BWV 243.1) erfährt ihre Urauff...

Immediately after finishing his First Symphony in B flat major op. 38, Robert Schumann wrote the present D minor Symphony in 1841. Despite its successful world premiere at the Leipzig Gewandhaus on 4...

Paul Hindemiths Werk weist enzyklopädische Züge auf: Er bedachte von Anfang an alle musikalischen Gattungen und realisierte einige seiner musikalischen Gedanken und Projekte nicht im einzelnen, abgesc...

Paul Hindemiths Werk weist enzyklopädische Züge auf: Er bedachte von Anfang an alle musikalischen Gattungen und realisierte einige seiner musikalischen Gedanken und Projekte nicht im einzelnen, abgesc...

In Volume VII,4 of the Hindemith Complete Edition the cantatas „Mainzer Umzug“. Volksvergnügen für drei Singstimmen, gemischten Chor und Orchester (1962) on a text by Carl Zuckmayer and Paul Hindemith...

tiny TATTOO was written after the composer visited a 'treetop' bistro at Big Sur, California. The restaurant is named Nepenthe, after an ancient Greek elixir fabled to relieve any and all sorrows. Thi...

The text for the work was derived from a variety of poems by Percy B. Shelley (1792-1822) as suggested by Mre. Wharton. The poems used are: Asia: From Prometheus Unbound Good-Night Hymn to Intellectua...