Sheet Music for String Instruments

Franz Schubert wrote his Sonata in A minor D 821 for piano and arpeggione, a hybrid instrument between guitar and violoncello that briefly came into fashion in the 1820s. Today, the piece has become a...

Among Beethoven’s violin sonatas, the "Spring Sonata" is probably the best known. Composed around 1800, it received its famous nickname much later. Originally it was conceived as a pair (together with...

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Saint-Saëns added considerably to the violin repertoire: including two sonatas, three concertos and a number of small works with piano or orchestral accompaniment. That was partly as a result of his f...

Written during the First World War, Maurice Ravel's composition 'Le Tombeau de Couperin' takes a wistful look at the past, while at the same time being brimming with hints of modernity. Each of the si...

The Sicilienne goes back to a commission concerning an unfinished incidental music of Molière's 'Le Bourgeois gentilhomme'. Only after its incorporation into another incidental music (Pelléas et Mélis...

Neuheit der Formen, ausgesuchte Modulationen, eigentümliche Klangfarben, den Einsatz völlig unerwarteter Rhythmen, lobte Camille Saint-Saëns das Erstlingswerk eines jungen Kollegen und fuhr fort: "Übe...

Born in the village of Brand in the Upper Palatinate, Max Reger (1873 1916) was taught by the renowned music theoretician Hugo Riemann. After finishing his studies and working as a freelance performer...

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1932) is regarded as one of the most important Polish composers since Chopin. He received his formative musical training in Warsaw where he lived for many years and was also di...

As is the case with 'Trauermusik', there now exists an organ version of its sister work. Heribert Breuer, choir director and professor in Berlin, arranged the score for the organ, thus opening up furt...

These variations are among the most little-known works by Carl Maria von Weber. They are especially charming due to the harmonic ambiguity, primarily found in the piano accompaniment, that Weber weave...

When Weber offered the sonatas for violin and piano to the publisher André von Offenbach in 1810, the latter refused to print them because they were 'too good and demanding'. In order to reach as larg...

When Weber offered the sonatas for violin and piano to the publisher André from Offenbach in 1810, the latter refused to print them because they were 'too good and demanding'. In order to reach as lar...

Year of composition: 2014

Kompositionsjahr: 2014

'Ri-Tratto, written on 12 October 2011 as a little birthday present for Hansheinz Schneeberger to whom I owe so many wonderful musical experiences: attempt of a portrait in the form of prelude and fug...

Chaya Czernowin wrote this composition for violin solo as early as 1981, it is thus one of her early works. The world premiere took place in Berlin in 1983, shortly after the Israeli composer had come...

This edition of the Violin Concerto in A minor is tailored to today's common style of violin playing as well as historically informed performance practice. Two violin parts are arranged, according to...

Heinz Holliger composed this short encore piece for the birthday of the famous Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair. Starting from a brief 'Happy Birthday' quotation, it soon turns towards the 'stagger...

The Belgian violinist, Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), with his impressive blend of virtuosity and poetry, was a great admirer of the young Debussy's music who led the Paris première of his only string quar...