Peter Jost

With hardly any other chamber music work did Dvorák occupy himself as long and intensively as with this trio. After his first successes with works inspired by Czech folk music, namely the popular Slav...

After early elimination from the competition for the "Prix de Rome," the coveted award for composition students at the Paris Conservatoire, Chausson withdrew to the countryside in the summer of 1881 a...

Terminado el 1 de enero de 1885, el Cuarteto con piano es, junto con la Sonata para violonchelo op. 6 y la Sonata para violín op. 18, una de las obras de cámara más importantes del joven Strauss. Se t...

For several years following composition of his first piano quartet, Dvořák's publisher Simrock pushed him to compose a follow-up piece in the genre. The work, written during a few short weeks in summe...

First Urtext edition Fingering: Klaus Schilde The septet was composed in 1879/80, commissioned for the Parisian Chamber Music Society 'La Trompette'. Saint-Saëns had, however, hesitated for several ye...

Debussy wrote these two short dances to a commission from the instrument-making firm of Pleyel, which was keen to use famous names in the marketing of its newly-developed chromatic harp. The dances ar...

Desde la década de 1830, numerosos compositores han experimentado con formas híbridas que combinan elementos de la sinfonía, el concierto y la fantasía libre. Con su Segundo concierto para piano, Lisz...

Many well-known violinists such as the dedicatee Pablo de Sarasate, together later with Eugène Ysaye and Jacques Thibaud, included in their repertoires Camille Saint-Saëns' concert piece composed in 1...

Schumann's 'Sinfonietta' in the Urtext The intensity with which Schumann dealt with the symphony is shown not only by the four known works themselves, but also by compositions that stand between the g...

'Die Feen' is Richard Wagner's first complete opera; Beethoven, but especially Weber and Marschner are the models Wagner cited as his musical influences. Although Die Feen as a whole seems like a conc...

When Dvořák suddenly became internationally famous in 1878 with his Slavonic Dances, he received, among other things, a request for a new string quartet from Jean Becker, the first violinist of the re...

In autumn 1895, after returning from New York once and for all, Dvorák took up his former position as teacher at the Prague Conservatory. This clearly had an inspiring impact on him because in the spa...

Although Dvorak's stay in America (1892-95) was very successful, the composer suffered a good deal from homesickness. He had begun the string quartet in A flat major in New York, but continued with it...

Composed in autumn of 1881, Opus 61 is the last of Dvořák's 'middle' quartets by chronology for which Beethoven and Schubert served as the most significant models. Beethoven's influence, from thematic...

El modelo inmediato de esta primera obra importante de música de cámara de Ravel fue el Cuarteto de cuerda de Debussy de 1892/93. Sin embargo, la composición, escrita en 1902/03, ya contiene rasgos in...

The serenade flourished in Mozart’s era, but with Brahms the genre experienced a new surge in popularity in the 19th century. Dvořák’s cheerful and relaxed op. 22 came into being in 1875, during a ver...

Debussy escribió estas dos breves danzas por encargo de la casa Pleyel, que deseaba utilizar nombres célebres para comercializar su nueva arpa cromática. Las danzas también pueden tocarse sin problema...

Debussy escribió estas dos breves danzas por encargo de la casa Pleyel, que deseaba utilizar nombres célebres para comercializar su nueva arpa cromática. Las danzas también pueden tocarse sin problema...

For the elaboration of his eight Spanish Dances (HN1370), Sarasate employed extant material - folk melodies or songs by well-known composers - which he then blended with his own delightful brand of to...

En las composiciones de Sarasate predominan los elementos del folclore español, pero varias obras destacadas utilizan también melodías y danzas típicas de otros países. Junto a las "Zigeunerweisen", l...

Dvořák composed this concerto at his publisher's suggestion. He drafted it relatively swiftly in summer 1879, but completing it was a more drawn-out process that lasted until 1882. He had the famous v...

Once again, Henle can boast of an important new addition to its Pantheon of great composers: Ernest Chausson. Based on a novella by the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev, the Poème for violin and orchest...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...