These pieces, known as the Kurfürsten Sonatas, were composed in 1783 while Beethoven was still studying with Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. “He will certainly become a second Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, if he progresses as he started off“, Neefe ...

“Messiah“ occupies a unique position in Handel’s work. Its strongly universal character and directness of expression, which appeal to men of all creeds, make it the most renowned work in the whole of the composer’s monumental output.

Passion, ...

Das Chorbuch umfasst ca. 100 Chorsätze zu Liedern des neuen Gotteslobs. Sowohl Sätze für den Stammteil als auch für den Fuldaer Eigenteil sind darin enthalten. Die Fuldaer Chorsätze können zum Teil in anderen Bistümern Verwendung finden und ...

The main body of the new edition of Les Indes galantes, published in Opera Omnia Rameau (OOR IV.2, 7), restores the version authorised by Rameau in 1736. This basic editorial decision has made it possible to present a fully coherent and authenticated ...

Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis, also known as the “Nelson Mass”, was composed in 1798. It is one of the six great Mass settings that forms the crowning glory of his vocal music along with The Creation and The Seasons.

Continuing the collaboration ...

The performance material available up till now for Dvorák’s sun-filled cheerful Symphony no. 8 has been notorious for its myriad mistakes. The challenge of correcting it has now been taken over by the editor Jonathan Del Mar. He has taken into ...

Roughly eight months after the death of Antonín Dvorák (1 May 1904), his son-in-law Josef Suk began to compose a funeral symphony. While he was working on it fate struck a second time with the death of his beloved wife, Otilie. He dedicated ...

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto op. 64, is a key work of the 19th century, adhering to the classical style of Beethoven while pointing the way to the romantic ethos of Brahms. It has long been known that Mendelssohn performed the work with three ...

Volume 1 of Bach’s organ music presents some of the most frequently played organ pieces altogether. Here they appear in a new engraving based on the New Bach Edition (NBA).

This updated edition takes into account the latest findings ...

“Tonight I Dance Alone” for double choir a cappella consists of three poignant episodes from the life of an old man. We encounter him before his wedding, before celebrating his wedding anniversary and now as an elderly widower who says to ...

In 1985 Christoph Wolff, working at Yale University, discovered a collection of 82 chorales compiled by Johann Gottfried Neumeister (1756-1840) which contained 38 compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. They reveal great stylistic variety whose ...

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto op. 64, is a key work of the 19th century, adhering to the classical style of Beethoven while pointing the way to the romantic ethos of Brahms. It has long been known that Mendelssohn performed the work with three ...

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto op. 64, is a key work of the 19th century, adhering to the classical style of Beethoven while pointing the way to the romantic ethos of Brahms. It has long been known that Mendelssohn performed the work with three ...

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto op. 64, is a key work of the 19th century, adhering to the classical style of Beethoven while pointing the way to the romantic ethos of Brahms. It has long been known that Mendelssohn performed the work with three ...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy completed his first oratorio – St. Paul , op. 36 – in 1836, at the age of twenty-seven.

The first version, which was premiered on 22 May 1836, was then extensively revised by the composer. This second version, ...

Until now the edition The Music Books of Mozart and His Sister has only been available as part of the boxed set of Mozart’s oeuvre for piano (BA 5749) which has gone out of print. Now, for the first time, it can be purchased separately. Based ...

Claude Debussy had difficulties finishing his last major work, the Sonata for Violin and Piano. This can be seen in the many drafts which have been handed down and the fact that the cycle for which it was conceived was left unfinished. The ...

Haydn’s Symphony in G major Hob. I:81 comes from a series of three symphonies completed in late 1784 (nos. 81, 80 and 79, presumably in that order). No autograph score survives for Hob. I:81, thus our Urtext edition is based on copyists’ manuscripts ...

Glazunov’s compositions are often noted for their distinctive emotionality and underlying heroic mood. This also applies to the known organ works of this Russian master, all of which bear the characteristic traits of the Russian symphonic style: ...

This piano work, composed on the occasion of Pierre Boulez’s ninetieth birthday, refers in its title to American artist Barnett Newman, who numbers among the twentieth-century abstract expressionists.In his famous essay “The Sublime is Now,” ...

Continuity and further development shape Matthias Pintscher’s composing. Thus, in this work, he continues with concepts that he developed in his Flute Concerto “transir”:
“Every sound from a flute is ‘connected to breathing’ – no instrument ...

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto op. 64, is a key work of the 19th century, adhering to the classical style of Beethoven while pointing the way to the romantic ethos of Brahms. It has long been known that Mendelssohn performed the work with three ...

Love and insanity, tenderness and vulgarity bordering on the grotesque: Hector Berlioz never avoided extremes, neither in his life nor in his oeuvre. His entire Symphonie fantastique is pervaded by a musical “idée fixe” representing a woman ...

Urtext edition with articulation markings - Soft-cover performing edition

When you think cello, you think of Bach’s immortal cello suites.

The suites take centre stage in the cello literature. They are timeless and beautiful and ...

Franz Josef Stoiber, organ professor and organist at Regensburg Cathedral, has decided not to present a conventional improvisation tutor here. Instead, he offers a multi-faceted reader and workbook containing useful methodical and pedagogical ...

Composed in January–February 1875, Šárka is the third symphonic poem in Smetana’s six-part cycle Má vlast (My Fatherland). He first published it in a version for piano-duet issued by publisher Urbánek in 1880. The score of the first edition ...

Innovative work by the Siemens prize winner 2018 (the “Nobel prize” of music)

Beat Furrer’s Duo “Spazio Immergente I” (everlasting space) leads an over 2000-year-old text of visionary breadth into fascinating worlds of sound – with voice, ...

Philipp Maintz‘ Werk für die neue Orgel in der Jesuitenkirche St. Michael in München bezieht sich auf Bachs wunderschönes Choralvorspiel zu O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß aus dem Orgelbüchlein: „Ich wollte eine Musik schreiben, die in ihm ...

Der Komponist Rudolf Kelterborn über sein Werk: Der neutral formulierte Titel «gibt keinerlei inhaltliche Hinweise; er zeigt nur an, dass das ausführende Quartett acht verschiedene Instrumente spielt.
Die Satzbezeichnungen mögen dann allerdings ...

This piece reflects Janácek’s memories of childhood and youth in his native Hukvaldy and the Augustinian Abbey in Brno. Kryštof Maratka, a Czech composer resident in France and a great admirer of Janácek, has arranged the original version to ...

This piece reflects Janácek’s memories of childhood and youth in his native Hukvaldy and the Augustinian Abbey in Brno. Kryštof Maratka, a Czech composer resident in France and a great admirer of Janácek, has arranged the original version to ...

Urtext edition with articulation markings - Linen-bound performing edition

When you think cello, you think of Bach’s immortal cello suites.

The suites take centre stage in the cello literature. They are timeless and beautiful ...

The heroic pastoral Daphnis et Eglé was performed only once, on 29 October 1753, for the entertainment of King Louis XV at Fontainebleau and remained unpublished until today.

This edition is based on Rameau's autograph manuscript, a ...

What makes this new Vocal score so special?

• BA 5038-90 replaces the previous vocal score but retains its longstanding article number.
• The pagination has been adopted from the previous edition. This means that you can rehearse ...

How practical! Towering masterpieces of choral music history are now appearing in handy and affordable scores to complement the substantial linen-bound complete edition volumes.

The tried-and-tested musical text remains the same, whilst ...

This short, highly compact song is based on an excerpt from a poem by Philipp Luidl. Thanks to the narrow ambitus of the vocal part, it is suitable for every vocal register. The piano part is strictly bound to the musical text, whereas the ...

The opera “Naïs” was premiered on 22 April 1749 at the Académie royale in the Palais-Royal, Paris, in celebration of the signing of the so-called Treaty of Aachen. It was revived again in August 1764 shortly before Rameau’s death and achieved ...

Volume 4 for soprano contains the second half of the large-scale arias and ariettas that Rameau composed for lyric soprano (the 18th-century equivalent of today’s lyric coloratura soprano) in his prologues and divertissements. Each number is ...

Schubert’s tuneful and buoyant Sonata in G major was published in April 1827 as a “Fantasy or Sonata”, to quote the heading of its first movement. His first reviewer noted that “the beloved and talented Lieder composer has presented the music ...

Dvorák’s song cycle Gypsy Songs op. 55 on words by the Czech poet Adolf Heyduk, were written at the beginning of 1880 at the request of the Bohemian tenor Gustav Walter, a member of the Vienna Court Opera and the work’s dedicatee. For this ...

Dvorák’s song cycle Gypsy Songs op. 55 on words by the Czech poet Adolf Heyduk, were written at the beginning of 1880 at the request of the Bohemian tenor Gustav Walter, a member of the Vienna Court Opera and the work’s dedicatee.

For ...

Here is fresh material for young string ensembles presented by George Speckert who is a master arranger for amateur orchestras. Each of these 27 relatively short character pieces evokes a unique mood in its very title: Brisk, Sad, Sunset and ...

Oskar Rieding (1840–1918) is known to all young violinists for his easy-to-play concertos for violin and piano, of which opp. 34 to 36 remain entirely in first position. In op. 36 catchy melodies are coupled with first technical difficulties ...

Jean-Baptiste Bréval (1753–1823) was a member of the orchestra at the Paris Opéra and also a prolific composer. His works include concertos for cello, string quartets, comic operas and a violoncello tutor.

However he is best-known for ...

Camille Saint-Saëns’ The Carnival of the Animals is one of his most popular works altogether. Yet during his lifetime he refused to publish this orchestral piece for fear it would damage his reputation as a serious-minded musician.

Now ...

For Beat Furrer, the poet Dino Campana (1885–1932) is “probably the only one of the Italian writers of his time who was capable of bringing to life the new futuristic ideas with a great poetic power and a strong association with the Italian ...

With its impressive range of gentle shades and hues, this composition plays with memories of Franz Liszt’s late piano pieces La lugubre gondola I and II. Manfred Trojahn likewise presents subdued melodies floating above an undulating accompaniment. ...

There are songbirds and birds whose bird calls are less than cantabile. In the garden of Rome’s Villa Massimo, the one and the other birds (ucelli) and songbirds (ucelletti), inspired composer Manfred Trojahn to write this adventurous and very ...

Otakar Ševcik’s single-volume Forty Variations for the Violin occupies a special position in his extensive oeuvre of teaching material. Here he follows up on his systematic “step by step” work for the right hand, which he covered in detail ...

Martinu’s Nonet No. 2 was composed in 1959, the final year of his life. It was commissioned by the ensemble Czech Nonet which premiered the piece at the Salzburg Festival and it appeared in print posthumously in autumn of that same year.

The ...

Schubert’s operas contain a wealth of magnificent music. This anthology of opera arias for baritone with piano accompaniment presents a delightful selection from Des Teufels Lustschloss D 84, Adrast D 137, Die Freunde von Salamanka D 326, Alfonso ...

Debussy’s Première Rhapsodie is one of two concertante works completed, premiered and published during his lifetime. He was commissioned to write it in 1909 for the final examination at the Paris Conservatoire in 1910. Debussy orchestrated ...

Debussy’s Première Rhapsodie is one of two concertante works completed, premiered and published during his lifetime. He was commissioned to write it in 1909 for the final examination at the Paris Conservatoire in 1910. Debussy orchestrated ...

This first volume of the “Viola Recital Album” contains nine pieces that learners are especially fond of playing. They are based on English folk songs (such as “Baa Baa Black Sheep”), familiar German nursery rhymes (“Hänschen Klein”) and less ...

The nine pieces in this second volume of the “Viola Recital Album” augment those appearing in volume 2 of the viola tutor. There the pieces are integrated in ascending order of difficulty, whereas the additional pieces in the “Recital Album” ...

The seven recital pieces in volume 3 of the “Viola Recital Album” augment the repertoire in volumes 2 and 3 of the Sassmannshaus tutor “Early Start on the Viola.” But other viola tutors will also benefit from these pieces, all of which are ...

The pieces in volume 4 of the “Viola Recital Album” begin at the level of those in volumes 2 and 3 of the viola tutor and raise it to create little challenges in lessons. They can also be played to good effect in recitals.

This delightful ...

The “ Messe de Requiem” is probably the internationally best-known and most frequently performed work by Gabriel Fauré . The composer’s first version was limited to just five movements and small-scale forces with low strings, harp and organ. ...

The “Petite Messe solennelle” is the finest work of Rossini’s late years. He composed it between 1863 and 1864 at the age of 71 as a commission for Countess Louise Pillet -Will for the consecration of her private chapel, where the work received ...

“It’s never right to play Ragtime fast.”
(Scott Joplin)

Most listeners associate “ragtime” with the music of Scott Joplin, one of the earliest African-American composers to straddle the divide between classical and popular music. ...

Jazz, swing, samba, rhumba and more all found their way to the organ long ago. Not only do the melodies, harmonies and rhythms of these styles enrich the organ’s concert literature, they can also be meaningfully incorporated in the liturgy.

The ...

Beethoven’s four-movement Sonata in A-flat major op. 26 belongs to his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Lichnowsky, one of his most generous patrons and the dedicatee of, for example, the Grande Sonate pathétique op. 13 and Symphony ...

With their very accessible style and expressive interpretation of the words, these contemporary works continue in the tradition of classical and romantic song cycles and will form a form a welcome addition to every song recital.

- Welcome ...

With their very accessible style and expressive interpretation of the words, these contemporary works continue in the tradition of classical and romantic song cycles and will form a form a welcome addition to every song recital.

- Welcome ...

With their very accessible style and expressive interpretation of the words, these contemporary works continue in the tradition of classical and romantic song cycles and will form a form a welcome addition to every song recital. Sie ist nicht ...

With their very accessible style and expressive interpretation of the words, these contemporary works continue in the tradition of classical and romantic song cycles and will form a form a welcome addition to every song recital. Abendröte is ...

With their very accessible style and expressive interpretation of the words, these contemporary works continue in the tradition of classical and romantic song cycles and will form a form a welcome addition to every song recital. Abendröte is ...

If the nickname “Appassionata” was appropriate for one of Beethoven’s Sonatas, it would be for his E-flat major Sonata op. 7 rather than his famous work in F minor op. 57. This was Carl Czerny’s opinion who felt that op. 7 was written in a ...

This study score is based on our recently published new scholarly-critical edition (BA 10422) of Dvorák’s op. 53, his only violin concerto. Besides the original print, the edition takes into account Dvorák’s autograph, which served as a model ...

L’incoronazione di Poppea, Claudio Monteverdi’s final opera, had a formative impact on the evolution of this genre. Yet its convoluted source situation makes it one of music history’s great enigmas. There are practically no references to the ...

Sacred works occupy a large part of Charles Gounod’s oeuvre. It was the Messe solennelle en l’honneur de Sainte Cécile that established his fame as a church composer. Its melodic invention and effective handling of the orchestra reveal a close ...

Sacred works occupy a large part of Charles Gounod’s oeuvre. It was the Messe solennelle en l’honneur de Sainte Cécile that established his fame as a church composer. Its melodic invention and effective handling of the orchestra reveal a close ...

The “Devil’s Trill” Sonata is the most famous of the violin sonatas of Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770). In the new scholarly-critical edition, it holds many a surprise in store. For the first time, all available contemporary sources have ...

Composed in 1809–10, Beethoven’s Sonata op. 81a expresses his very personal feelings. He titled its three movements “Das Lebewohl” (The Farewell), “Die Abwesenheit” (The Absence) and “Das Wiedersehn” (The Return) in reference to the hasty departure ...

This effective, demanding work for piano solo captivates through its changes between twirling cascades and oases of tranquillity whereby the irridescent development focuses on central reference tones. Occasionally the strings inside the instrument ...

Organ and percussion, one of the most exotic instrumental combinations in modern music, invariably produce delightful sonic effects and contrasts. This also applies to Zsigmond Szathmáry's Sense of Rhythm, where this renowned concert organist ...

It may come as a surprise to learn that Anton Webern’s delicate, refined and intimate music can be transferred to the organ. Xavier Darasse (1934-1992), a pupil of Duruflé and Messiaen, has produced an organ adaptation of the famous three-movement ...

‘Mors et vita’ – death and life. This antithesis opens a stanza of the ancient 11th-century Easter sequence Victimae paschali laudes, where life and death are locked in mutual struggle. Zsigmond Szathmáry’s 12-minute composition of 2015, commissioned ...

“I think Bach would have forgiven me for embarking on these transcriptions. Whether he would have forgiven the way I did it is, of course, another matter.” (Gustav Leonhardt)

The harpsichordist, conductor and organist Gustav Leonhardt ...

The Czech composer and teacher Emil Hradecký (b. 1953) has devoted much of his creative output to children and the piano. His Two-Part Piano Miniatures on One Page are ingenious small piano pieces for beginners which are easy to play yet melodically ...

This new piano reduction of Mozart’s “Coronation Concerto” K. 537 is based on the music text from the New Mozart Edition and is fully compatible with the already existing performance material (BA 5318).

A separate Urtext solo piano part ...