Claus Kanngießer

Brahms' cello sonatas are probably amongst the most beautiful that has ever been written for this instrument. The publication of the two works in the new Brahms Complete Edition has prompted us to pub...

With marked and unmarked string part. Fingering Piano: Rolf Koenen Fingering Violoncello: Claus Kanngiesser Edward Elgar's Salut d'amour is one of those pieces by the British composer that has a parti...

Raff's Cello Sonata op. 183 appeared in print in late 1873; at a time when Raff's success was at its zenith with Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5 as well as many chamber works. Little is known about the circum...

There are composers about whom nothing or only little is known, who are only known through their works or even through one work only. Luigi Carvelli is one of them: He lived in the second half of the...

The e minor Cello Sonata is the first work for one solo instrument and piano which the meticulous composer also had printed. In summer 1865 Brahms offered it to the publisher Simrock as a sonata 'whos...

There are composers about whom nothing or only little is known, who are only known through their works or even through one work only. Luigi Carvelli is one of them: He lived in the second half of the...