With the publication of this choral score the performance material for Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion is now complete.

The ballet “Les Fêtes d'Hébé” deals with the talents that are usually the subject of the Opéra and are placed at the service of love on stage: poetry and declamation (1st entrée, "La Poésie"), ...

During the last summer of his life, Franz Schubert completed the Mass in E-flat D 950. The occasion for the composition of this Missa solemnis cannot be clarified with certainty. Schubert did not live to see the premiere of his sixth mass, ...

During the last summer of his life, Franz Schubert completed the Mass in E-flat D 950. The occasion for the composition of this Missa solemnis cannot be clarified with certainty. Schubert did not live to see the premiere of his sixth mass, ...

During the last summer of his life, Franz Schubert completed the Mass in E-flat D 950. The occasion for the composition of this Missa solemnis cannot be clarified with certainty. Schubert did not live to see the premiere of his sixth mass, ...

With the publication of this choral score the performance material for this central work by Johann Sebastian Bach is now complete.

One of Saint-Saëns' mature works, the "Six Études pour piano" op. 52, appeared in 1877 around the same time as his opera "Samson et Dalila". The second etude of the cycle was originally written in 1868 for the ...

Die im Jahre 1993 veröffentlichte Rockballade zählt zu den größten Erfolgen des US-amerikanischen Rocksängers und Schauspielers Meat Loaf. Auch über seinen Tod im Januar 2022 hinaus ist er bekannt für seine ...

Schubert’s piano sonatas written between 1818 and 1825 comprise four completed and five unfinished works. His breakthrough came with the Sonata in C major D 840, known as the “Reliquie”, the Sonata in A minor D 845, printed in 1826 entitled ...

Psalm 137 "Super flumina Babylonis" also known as "By the rivers of Babylon" was an inspiration for many composers including Camille Saint-Saëns. He repeatedly occupied himself with his psalm motet for solo soprano, ...

Psalm 137 "Super flumina Babylonis" also known as "By the rivers of Babylon" was an inspiration for many composers including Camille Saint-Saëns. He repeatedly occupied himself with his psalm motet for solo soprano, ...

Psalm 137 "Super flumina Babylonis" also known as "By the rivers of Babylon" was an inspiration for many composers including Camille Saint-Saëns. He repeatedly occupied himself with his psalm motet for solo soprano, ...

Psalm 137 "Super flumina Babylonis" also known as "By the rivers of Babylon" was an inspiration for many composers including Camille Saint-Saëns. He repeatedly occupied himself with his psalm motet for solo soprano, ...

“Beethoven effectively invented the genre of the cello sonata proper, in which cello and piano have equally important roles,” writes Barry Cooper in his introduction to the Bärenreiter edition of all five sonatas (BA09012 Beethoven, Sonatas ...

When he wrote his Toccata and Fugue in D minor at the age of about 20, Bach would hardly have been able to fathom what a hit he was about to land. More than 300 years later, the composition not only enjoys great popularity within his entire ...

The Sonata in E-flat major No. 49 is one of Haydn's most popular piano sonatas ever. He dedicated it to Anna Jerlischek, in charge of the Esterházy household, who had commissioned it. However, Haydn had apparently been working on the ...

Robert Schumann's "Scenes of Childhood" op. 15 (1838), "Album for the Young" op. 68 (1848) and "Forest Scenes" op. 82 (1848/1849) play a major role when learning how to play the piano, as they occupy an important ...

This collection appears as part of a series of popular works from the Bärenreiter catalogue celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publishing house. It presents two popular pieces from the "Moments Musicaux" op. 94 as well ...

Piano music plays a major role in Satie's oeuvre. On many levels, the composer breaks with tradition here. He does away with romantic vituosity, emotionality, or attention to established musical forms. Instead, there is something visionary ...

Chopin’s name is forevermore connected with the piano. He was a fabulous pianist, improviser, and, of course, composer with a very unique, personal style that is characterized by a sense of rubato, allusions to Polish folk music, grace and ...

Bärenreiter is closely connected with Mozart. The complete works of the ingenious composer have been published in the benchmark “New Mozart Edition” issued by Bärenreiter. Moreover, the vast majority of compositions are available ...

It is not surprising that Johannes Brahms, an exponent of Romanticism, bestowed his special interest on piano music, since the piano enjoyed great popularity among the rising bourgeoisie of the 19th century. And here it is precisely the smaller ...

With his "Spring" Vivaldi musically brings to sound what we associate with this season: chirping birds, babbling brooks, blooming meadows, a spirit of new beginnings. The piece is preceded by a poem, the verses of which are assigned ...

If you can finally play the Prelude from Bach's Suite I for Violoncello Solo in G major, you have made it: you have entered the world of great cello literature and at the same time, you have found a companion for life, at least for your life ...

The sonatas for flute and basso continuo by George Frideric Handel have been firm favourites among flautists for 270 years. The edition published by Bärenreiter in 1955 could essentially only rely on the pieces issued by the Chrysander ...

Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto is a central work in the clarinet literature and a benchmark for every clarinettist. Mozart completed it two months before his death; it was the last solo concerto he wrote. He dedicated the composition to his friend, ...

The Fantasias for flute without bass address themselves less to the virtuoso than to the amateur flutist, who will find everything he wishes in these pieces. Although Telemann himself may have lost track of his works, the many flutists who ...

“A mendicant woman from the Haynstrasse, aged 59 years, Anna Magdalena, née Wilckin, widow of Mr. Johann Sebastian Bach, cantor at the St. Thomas School” – thus reads the entry dated 29 February 1760 in the Leipzig "Ratsleichenbuch” ...

This piano reduction of Mozart’s G major violin concerto comes with two solo parts. One violin part gives players the Urtext of the “New Mozart Edition”. The tutti passages are all presented in normal size print for players wanting to perform ...

Although it has not been possible to identify the composer of the "Eight Little Preludes and Fugues" Alfred Dürr writes in his preface to this edition "Since the value of a musical work is in no way dependent pm whether ...

This edition of David Popper’s cello studies is the first modern publication of these standard works. The Austrian born Popper composed these studies in the late 1890s during his tenure at the Royal Conservatory in Budapest and they were first ...

The first three movements of Johannes Brahms’ E minor Cello Sonata were composed in 1862, the last movement was written in 1865. During the first years of its performance the work was received with mixed enthusiasm. By the end of Brahms’ life, ...

"melodie" was commissioned for the ARD Music Competition as the compulsory piece for the semifinals in 2022. It is dedicated to the Austrian flautist Eva Furrer, with whom Beat Furrer works closely and who has been his advisor on ...

Mit seinem Arrangement des amerikanischen Folk-/Gospelsongs für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor bereichert Martin Kirchhübel die Bosse Hits a cappella-Reihe. Es steckt, trotz seiner Kürze, voller klanglicher Farben und schafft ...

This collection of all instrumental numbers from "Castor et Pollux" (tragédie in a prologue and five acts) brings together the movements and dances of all versions based on the volumes of the “Opera Omnia Rameau” IV.3 (version ...

This little notebook is handsome as well as practical. The cover is in Bärenreiter’s attractive Chopin pink. The notebook has the same layout as our Urtext editions. The pages alternate with musical staves on the left and writing lines ...

The opera “Dido and Aeneas”, a recount of the well-known story from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, has established itself as a favourite with the public. This is due to the skill of composer Henry Purcell and his librettist Nahum Tate, who combined ...

Diese Klavierschule verfolgt einen klassischen Ansatz und setzt dennoch ihre eigenen pädagogischen Akzente. So findet der Einstieg über die schwarzen Tasten statt, ohne die Notation auf Notenlinien. Erst nach den ersten Spielerfahrungen ...

In Rameau's operatic oeuvre, "Io" is certainly the work shrouded in the most mystery: the acte de ballet has survived only in the form of a copy of the score and parts which was made by a collector from the generation after Rameau ...

Artaria had already published variations on a Mozart aria by Beethoven in 1793 under the highly symbolic opus number 1. However, the composer was not satisfied with this work and ensured that the opus number was transferred to another group ...

"Rubik's Cube" was commissioned for the competition held by the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University, Berlin, in 2023.

The composer about his work: "Everyone knows the Rubik's Cube, which Ernö Rubik invented ...

Chopin's “Berceuse” is one of his most frequently performed works and was regarded by subsequent composers as the prototype of the instrumental lullaby. This piece that Chopin initially named “Variantes” was composed around the time of his ...