Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Dorothea Hofmann composed five works for organ and other instruments. They are inspired by paintings by Lucas Cranach. All works were premiered by Marius Popp under the common title „Wunderkamme “ in...

Curupira ist der Beschützer des brasilianischen Waldes und seiner wilden Tiere und Pflanzen, gemeinsam mit Anhangá, dem weißen Hirschmit seinen Feueraugen: die Namen stammen aus der Sprache der Tupí,...

Nach dem Tod ihres Kompositionslehrers Carl Loewe (1796-1869) arbeitete Emilie Mayer an neuen Kompositionen und widmete einige Werke den Mitgliedern des Loewe Vereins (einer zu Ehren des verstorbenen...

Dieses Werk entstand ursprünglich in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Shoalhaven Jugendorchester, Australien. Vivienne Olive war im September 2004 in Bundanon, New South Wales "Composer in Residence". Es beschr...

Graffiti brings color and variety to the grey of a city. The 9 pieces in this volume are just as colorful and varied, promoting cellistic skills from the neck to the thumb position and capturing diffe...

Curtain up for Henriëtte Bosmans! The Sonata for cello and piano written in 1919 by the Dutch composer and pianist is a real discovery: exuberant and singing music in a late Romantic style. Both instr...

The composer Emilie Mayer succeeded in doing what only a few female musicians of the 19th century were able to do: turn their skills into a profession and find recognition in the process. She dedicate...

Solitude, a "romance sans parole" – as Rita Strohl (1865-1941) described the miniature in her handwritten catalogue raisonné – for violoncello and piano was written in 1887, but was not printed until...

Chen Yi's THREE BAGATELLES FROM CHINA WEST is a suite of Chinese folk songs. Originally written for flute and piano, many soloists and ensembles have requested transcriptions of these pieces for their...

Timofeyeva’s Yiddishkeit, a transliteration of the Yiddish word for "Jewishness", was composed in 2008. Theearlier version of Yiddishkeit (for cello and 7-string guitar) was recorded by the Timofeyev...

Mit den 1999 entstandenen 24 Präludien setzt Auerbach eine Tradition fort, die nicht zuletzt Dmitri Schostakowitsch und Rodion Shchedrin mit ihren teilweise auch an Bach orientierten Präludien-Komposi...

Am Beginn steht ein mysteriöses, Fragen stellendes Präludium, in dem die wichtigsten Bezugspunkte der gesamten Sonate vorgestellt werden. Nach einem dramatischen Allegro moderato folgt ein Satz, der e...

Cool Beans is an eclectic mix of 21 character duets composed by Celia Cobb and Naomi Yandell. The pieces draw on a wide range of moods, styles and playing techniques, and young string players will enj...

The variations on the children's song "Ein Männlein steht im Walde" (A little man stands in the forest) have a relatively long history of origin. I wrote the first version back in 2003 for a trio that...

Elena Kats-Chernin wrote Afterwards for the 18th birthday of a young acquaintance, Guy Knopke, who had just started playing the bassoon. The title refers to the new adventures and changes that can lie...