Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

The work, which the composer counts among her favourite pieces, was inspired by the life and work of Marguerite Duras. In her play of the same name, a Flemish woman goes to Saigon at the beginning of...

Die Titel der Sätze (As In A Dream - Happy Sixteenths - Distant Sounds - Contrasts) bilden in einer fast schon unglaublichen Ökonomie und Souveränität das aus, was uns musikalisch erzählt wird. Entsta...

“The notes have space around them in this piece, a little bit like dust over the keys. The title refers to roses delivered to a loved one, they are packed in a box and have a beautiful glow, very tend...

Grasshoppers was written in 1956 during Mamlok's studies at the Manhattan School. She balances a variety of moods, textures and tempi in six brief movemenm of a divertimento-like character that are th...

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...

“The notes have space around them in this piece, a little bit like dust over the keys. The title refers to roses delivered to a loved one, they are packed in a box and have a beautiful glow, very tend...

Almost all of Ursula Mamlok's works created before the Wind Quintet (1956) have remained unpublished until now. Many of them were performed for the first time in the final years of the composer who di...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Anmerkungen der Komponistin:Ich lernte das Klavierspiel in meiner Kindheit bei Gershon Konikow und Marcia Polis. Schon immer fühlte ich mich zur Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts hingezogen, insbesondere zu...

This collection of Marga Richter's complete works for solo piano comprises twenty-eight pieces, composed over a period of six decades, from the curiously eccentric Ballet of the Pixilated Penguins of...

I moved in as a stranger, I move out again as a stranger. The lyrical self in Franz Schubert's song cycle "Winterreise" wanders, is searching. Is it his personal life's wandering after a failed love,...

In Clara Schumann's Schreibart findet sich mancher ihr eigenthümliche Zug; sie ist weit entfernt, Chopin, Mendelssohn oder Robert Schumann zu copiren; diese Meister scheinen nur durch das Colorit, das...

Die zwei Klaviereditionen (EB8161/EB8162) erschienen zum Clara Schumann-Jahr 1996 (100. Todestag). Bei dem Marsch handelt es sich um das letzte, kaum bekannte Werk der Komponistin - die Romanzen bilde...

Rom 1839/40: Fanny Hensels Italien-Sehnsucht findet ihre Erfüllung, und sie komponiert in der Wohnung - 'vier Stuben, gut meubliert' - an einem 'alten, leichten, ausgespielten Klapperkasten' kleinere...

Dem Archivdunkel entrissen: ein Bach-naher Klavierzyklus Die Werke von Mendelssohns 'großer' Schwester Fanny erblicken mehr und mehr das Licht der Musikwelt. Das 'Klavierbuch e-moll' kommt 2003 erstma...

Es ist schon erstaunlich: die Existenz einer 'Clara-Schumann-Sonatine' aus den Jahren 1841/42 ist durchaus bekannt (siehe MGG oder Grove's Dictionary), direkte Konsequenzen für den Konzertsaal oder di...

EB 8568 ist in Partitur gedruckt; zur Aufführung werden zwei Exemplare benötigt

It is quite amazing that the piano works of the English composer Ethel Smyth had remained unpublished until 2003. All of them were written during her Leipzig study years after 1877, a period that Ethe...