Czech piano music
Bärenreiter Praha offer superb editions of Czech piano music, including the first Urtext edition of the complete piano sonatas of Leopold Koželuch (edited by Christopher Hogwood). Easy to play and gracefully melodious, these pieces are ideally suited for piano lessons. The piano sonatas of František Xaver Dušek likewise appear from Bärenreiter Praha in their very first Urtext edition.
A Selection from the Piano Catalogue
Dušek, František Xaver
Complete Sonatas for Keyboard
Volume 1
The Czech composer František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799) was a leading figure in Prague’s music life in the latter half of the 18th century. He was an outstanding pianist, composer and piano teacher whose pupils included Leopold Koželuch.
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Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 11513
23.95 €
Janácek, Leoš
1. X. 1905 for piano "Sonata"
Usually referred to as a sonata, 1. X. 1905 is Janacek’s most significant piece for the piano.
The work had a tumultuous history. It originally consisted of three movements inspired by the death of a Czech labourer shot by soldiers ...
The work had a tumultuous history. It originally consisted of three movements inspired by the death of a Czech labourer shot by soldiers ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 9501
10.50 €
Janácek, Leoš
In the Mists
Leos Janacek (1854–1928) wrote very little piano music. Nevertheless he left behind several unique and valuable pieces in this genre, including the cycle “In the Mists”, a highly personal reflection of his inmost feelings.
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Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 9500
11.95 €
Janácek, Leoš
On an Overgrown Path for piano
The works for solo piano by Leos Janacek (1854–1928) are not great in number, however, they play a significant role in his oeuvre, forming one of the pillars of piano literature of the 20th century. After the piano cycle “In the Mists” – which ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 9502
18.95 €
Janácek, Leoš
Selected Piano Works
This Urtext edition of Janácek’s works includes lesser-known piano pieces and miniatures from his late years. They complete our picture of Janácek the piano composer, best known for the cycles “On an Overgrown Path” and “In the ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 11545
21.95 €
Kozeluch, Leopold
Complete Sonatas for Keyboard I-IV
Sonatas Nos. 1-50
The composer, pianist and piano teacher Leopold Koželuch (1747-1818) was one of the leading Czech musicians in 18th-century Vienna. His 50 sonatas for keyboard bear witness not only to the transition from the harpsichord or clavichord to the ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 9515
154.00 €
Kozeluch, Leopold
Six Easy Sonatas for Piano
Leopold Koželuch (also Koželuh) was among the leading musical figures of 18th-century Vienna, well-known in his day as an excellent pianist and piano teacher.
Six delightful sonatas have been selected from the complete edition ...
Six delightful sonatas have been selected from the complete edition ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 11565
13.95 €
Martinu, Bohuslav
Puppets / Loutky I-III
short pieces for piano
Despite the extraordinary significance attributed toBohuslav Martinu's 14 short piano piecesentitled Puppets, surprisingly little is known about the exact time andcircumstances of theircomposition. It is however certain that these are the first ...
Performance score
H 7970
22.95 €
Schulhoff, Erwin
Jazz-inspired Works for Piano
Erwin Schulhoff was a German-speaking composer who was born in Prague in 1894 and died in the Nazi concentration camp in Wülzburg (Bavaria) in 1942. In the 1920s he returned to his native Prague to teach at the local conservatory. His ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 9559
43.95 €
Schulhoff, Erwin
Sonatas for Piano no. 1-3
With his works of the 1920s – an original blend of traditional genres, rhythms inspired by jazz and dance music and judiciously expanded tonality – the German-Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff captured the tenor of the times. This edition presents ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 9560
40.50 €
Smetana, Bedrich
Album Leaves
A further volume of Smetana’s piano works reveals the composer as creator of short, lyrical pieces – moments of repose, varied in character and style. The pieces were mostly written in the 1840s-50s with the intention of composing works using ...
Performance score
BA 9525
23.95 €
Smetana, Bedrich
Dreams
Six Characteristic Pieces for Piano
For his six characteristic pieces “Rêves” (Dreams), composed in 1875, Smetana returned to his favourite instrument, the piano. It was the first time he had written for the instrument in almost ten years. His compositions reflect two forms: ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 9529
16.95 €
Suk, Josef
Things Lived and Dreamt for Piano op. 30
The cycle “Životem a snem” (Things Lived and Dreamt) by Josef Suk (1874–1935) is his magnum opus for the piano and has been called the “diary of an artist”. Although Suk’s musical language never exceeds the bounds of tonality, his wealth of ...
Performance score, Urtext edition
BA 9561
19.50 €
Suková, Otilie
Piano Pieces
Otilie Suková was the daughter of Antonín Dvorák and the wife of Josef Suk. A gifted musician, she played the piano and wrote several compositions of her own, inspired by her musical surroundings. Four of her piano pieces ...
Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
BA 11557
9.50 €