Sheet Music for String Instruments

To many violists, Garth Knox is known as the author of Viola Spaces (ED 20520), the groundbreaking compendium of modern playing techniques on the viola. Knox begins his Fuga libre in Baroque musical p...

Hans Werner Henze's output is primarily dominated by large-scale, representative musical genres with a richly differentiated instrumental tonal palette: opera and other forms of musical theatre works,...

The one-movement, yet multiple time structured, sonata uses a gently modern tonal language and has been influenced by the French tradition. Emile Naoumoff likes to give his movements unusual headings...

Das anmutige kleine Stück für Viola solo (auch für Violine solo erhältlich) entstand als Geschenk an eine junge Geigenschülerin. Es eignet sich sehr gut als Zugabenstück. Der beschwörende bis archaisc...

Das anmutige kleine Stück für Viola solo (auch für Violine solo erhältlich) entstand als Geschenk an eine junge Geigenschülerin. Es eignet sich sehr gut als Zugabenstück. Der beschwörende bis archaisc...

The Sonata for Viola and Piano (1984) is not based - as is common in the 'classical' sonata form - on the dualism of two opposing themes. The dialectics are in the juxtaposition of two homogenous move...

With his 'Meditations', the composer Eduard Pütz (1911-2000) from Cologne made an important contribution to 20th-century guitar chamber music. Both parts are treated equally, holding a dialogue in a m...

With his 'Concerto classico' composed in 1999, Bertold Hummel enables violin pupils with only limited technical skills to play an entire little violin concerto. The second movement, Elegy, is now also...

This virtuosic arrangement of the world-famous movement from 'Carmina Burana' is suitable both as an effective encore and competition piece. Printed with two versions in each edition, it is designed a...

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...

The title goes back to the illustrated book 'Kamfu mir helfen?' by Dirk Schmidt & Barbara Schmidt. The charming story inspired the composer to write music which, according to tradition, is based on th...

This little suite is particularly suitable as a first introduction to contemporary music. The outer movements seem to pursue a melismatic dialogue, the middle pieces cover a variety of moods.

per viola sola Transkription der Originalfassung für Violoncello solo

Autumn Music for viola and piano is dedicated to the pianist Maria Grazyna Kulka. The string part of the original version for cello and piano (Schott CB 265) has been reworked for the Kulka Duo. Autum...

This fantasy in song form, develops an expressive melody in Eb minor. Its characteristic iambic rhythm is announced in the initial bars of the ostinato piano accompaniment. The central section contras...

Ysaÿe liebte es in seinen Sonaten Bach zu zitierten. In seiner 'Homage an Ysaÿe' hat Garth Knox sowohl Motive des Barockmeisters wie auch Themen von Ysaÿe selbst verarbeitet. Die drei Sätze bilden ein...

Ysaÿe liebte es in seinen Sonaten Bach zu zitierten. In seiner 'Homage an Ysaÿe' hat Garth Knox sowohl Motive des Barockmeisters wie auch Themen von Ysaÿe selbst verarbeitet. Die drei Sätze bilden ein...

The pandemic gave many musicians time to reflect. For me personally, the lockdowns provided the time and courage to catch uncomposed notes flying around in my head and write a viola solo suite for the...