Sheet Music for String Instruments

Schönberg created his last instrumental work in March 1949 at the suggestion of American violinist Adolf Koldofsky, firstly just the violin part and only thereafter the piano accompaniment. The piece...

The Viennese Jakob Dont is considered one of the most important violin pedagogues of the nineteenth century and wrote numerous study pieces that are indispensable classics of the pedagogical literatur...

Dont, Kreutzer, Rode: three of the most prominent violin pedagogues of the nineteenth century are united here in one volume. At the outset of the nineteenth century, Rodolphe Kreutzer and Pierre Rode...

Together with Pierre Baillot and Rodolphe Kreutzer, Pierre Rode founded the important Franco-Belgian violin school at the end of the eighteenth century. Celebrated throughout Europe, this violinist gi...

Eugène Ysaÿe's famous 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin op. 27 (HN 776) belong to the canonical repertoire, but the pieces for violin and piano presented here also deserve a place on the music shelf of studen...

The 19th century was a heyday for arrangements of all kinds. So it was natural that the composer and violin virtuoso Sarasate should turn to this genre to expand his repertoire. He composed numerous f...

> Original cadenza no. 1 also in a version by Eugène Ysaye > With a marked and unmarked string part > Recital Piece for advanced students > Preface by the Belgian expert on Vieuxtemps, Marie Cornaz >...

In addition to the famous solo concerto, many of Tchaikovsky's violin works have entered the standard violinist's repertoire. An outstanding example is the Valse-Scherzo, sparkling with playfulness, w...

Following the publication of the Valse-Scherzo, we continue Henle's edition of Tchaikovsky's complete works for violin and piano with the enchanting Sérénade mélancolique, op. 26. This was Tchaikovsky...

Composed at the end of a longer series of works between summer and autumn 1887, the violin sonata numbers among Strauss' most popular chamber music compositions to this day. In the outer movements, it...

When composing his Spanish Dances (HN1370), the composer and violin virtuoso Sarasate united existing material - folk songs and songs by well-known composers - with his own uniquely charming musical l...

Edward Elgar spent the summer of 1918 in the countryside. In August he received reports of the approaching end of the First World War, and this good news so inspired him that he was able to finish an...

For the elaboration of his eight Spanish Dances (HN1370), Sarasate employed extant material - folk melodies or songs by well-known composers - which he then blended with his own delightful brand of to...

During his lifetime, composer, piano manufacturer, and publisher Ignaz Pleyel bestowed upon the world of music an almost unimaginable number of published compositions, some of them in multiple arrange...

These easy duets were published around 1796/97 by Pleyel's own publishing house both as Six Duos faciles et progressives for two violins and as Six nouvelles Sonatines progressives for piano and violi...

Elements of Spanish folklore dominate in Sarasate's compositions, but several prominent works also use typical melodies and dances of other countries. Alongside the 'Zigeunerweisen', the 'Introduction...

The 'Six Duos concertans', which are today known under the opus number 23, feature wonderful instrumental music by Ignaz Pleyel. In contrast to other works to which the composer assigned the attribute...

Brahms's First Violin Sonata in G major is also known by the sobriquet "Regenliedsonate" (Rain Sonata) because its final movement quotes melodic motifs from his two songs "Regenlied" and "Nachklang" (...

Brahms composed a whole series of chamber music works, including his Second Violin Sonata in A major, during a summer visit to Thun in Switzerland in 1886. This wonderfully lyrical work is one of his...

Brahms completed his Violin Sonata in d minor op. 108 in 1888. It was the culmination of several years of work, and his final contribution to the genre. This Third Sonata is his only one in a minor ke...

Johannes Brahms's three famous sonatas op. 78, 100 and 108 are among the most beautiful that the violin repertoire has to offer. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Brahms had actually composed more for this...

The so-called F. A. E. Sonata is an extraordinary collective work with an equally unusual title and concept. In late October 1853, Robert Schumann, Albert Dietrich and Johannes Brahms presented it as...

Giovanni Battista Viotti was a fascinating musical personality who lived at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. His training as a violin virtuoso was still in the traditions of the Corelli school...

Violinist Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, a friend of Mendelssohn, was one of the great virtuosi of his age, standing alongside Paganini, Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski. Like them, he left behind a series of compo...

Dvořák composed this concerto at his publisher's suggestion. He drafted it relatively swiftly in summer 1879, but completing it was a more drawn-out process that lasted until 1882. He had the famous v...