Wolfgang Birtel

No, it is not only Bach/Gounod when hearing the Ave Maria: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), too, set this text to music several times - for example, for organ (without pedal) and two identical voices....

The Air by Johann Sebastian Bach at best can rival his setting Jesus bleibet meine Freude for popularity: The final chorus from the cantata BWV 147 Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life is really catchy b...

The Violinissimo series attempts to make the rich repertoire of five centuries of violin music accessible for lessons, concerts and private music-making. The anthology Serenade contains a selection of...

The Air by Johann Sebastian Bach at best can rival his setting Jesus bleibet meine Freude for popularity: the final chorus from the cantata BWV 147 Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life is very catchy due...

The Air by Johann Sebastian Bach at best can rival his setting Jesus bleibet meine Freude for popularity: The final chorus from the cantata BWV 147 Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life is really catchy b...

It is therefore quite wrong to place just mechanical or mediocre players at the viola', warned Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart in 1784/85 in his 'Ideen zu einer Ästhetik der Tonkunst'. Some disreg...

The collection “Best of Viola Classics - 16 Famous Concert Pieces” for viola and piano presented by Schott contains a selection of works that can accompany every pupil in many years of his or her viol...

Cirris Sonaten opus 11 für Violoncello und Bass waren bislang nur zum Teil in modernen Ausgaben erhältlich: Hier wird nun die komplette Sammlung mit ihren sechs Sonaten vorgelegt. Der Komponist, der M...

The genre of the violoncello concerto was born in 17th-century Italy. Thanks to the Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), there exists today not only a wealth of magnificent violin concertos...

In the summer of 1888, Edward Elgar's fiancée (and pupil) Caroline Alice Roberts surprised him with the poem 'Love's Grace' written by herself. During a holiday, the composer re-membered the lines and...

The Classical Highlights series presents the best-known and most popular performance pieces of the classical repertoire in arrangements for various instruments - and now for string quartet. Apart from...

33 pieces for violin and piano which are fun to play - this is what the new anthology of Wolfgang Birtel in the Violinissimo series has to offer! In addition to Joplin's eponymous work The Entertainer...

Again and again composers have been inspired by the animal world and have represented the nature of the most diverse animals in music - be it locomotion, such as the flight of a butterfly or the wrigg...

Violine und Basso continuo (Klavier); Violoncello (Viola da gamba) ad lib.

The fourth volume of the Violinissimo series features the most important studies for the early years of violin lessons. Violin Studies contains selections from the standard works by Kayser, Dont, Wohl...

The 'Air' by Johann Sebastian Bach at best can rival his setting 'Jesus bleibet meine Freude' for popularity: The final chorus from the cantata BWV 147 'Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life' is really ca...

Wer kennt es nicht, das Lied 'Guantanamera'? Auf eine Melodie des kubanischen Musikstils Guajira und einen Text des dortigen Nationalhelden José Martí zurückgehend, wurde sie von José Fernández Díaz i...

The music of small forms and of chamber-music instrumentations was to become the focus of the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). In 1874, after many years spent in the 'provinces', the teacher...

This collection of beautiful and easy original compositions for violin and piano provides a large selection of works to accompany every pupil during the first years of his or her music lessons. The vo...

Also known as 'Blues Lullaby', this work by Gershwin, which was originally composed as a pure piano piece, is also known in other arrangements today. Because of the melancholy theme framing the bluesy...

The Air by Johann Sebastian Bach at best can rival his setting Jesus bleibet meine Freude for popularity: the final chorus from the cantata BWV 147 Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life is very catchy due...

The Air by Johann Sebastian Bach at best can rival his setting Jesus bleibet meine Freude for popularity: the final chorus from the cantata BWV 147 Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life is very catchy due...