Partituras para conjunto mixto

The compositions by the greatest Brazilian tango composer and pianist Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth (1863 -1934) are strongly influenced by Brazilian folk music. He preferred light entertainment, and his...

We owe it to Paul Hindemith's interest in education, which, in turn, was owed not only to the professional musicians and composers, that he composed for children and amateur musicians as well. Dame Mu...

The reason for the composition of this work is well-known: Bach's encounter with Frederick the Great and the story of the 'royal theme' which the King of Prussia 'deigned to play' on a pianoforte and...

These movements are distinguished by a high, bold leap of imagination…', judged a reviewer of the first edition of the Trio. But it is likely that Weber never performed his Trio in public - perhaps an...

The International Organ Week in Nuremberg which commissioned this work gave the composer the opportunity to compose for three organs: a very rare opportunity! Together with three trumpets, this one-mo...

The composer, violinist and educationalist Louis Spohr (1784-1859) caused a sensation as a child already: At the age of 5, he took his first violin lessons and at the age of 15 was employed as chamber...

Olli Mustonen, the Finnish pianist, composer and conductor, is at home on all concert stages of the world. Recently, he has mainly composed chamber music works. His Quartetto with the allusive movemen...

The quintet was printed and published in a revised version as opus 30 in 1954. Now, the first version of 1923, edited on the basis of the text of the Paul Hindemith Complete Edition, is published for...

'Landscape With Deserted House' is a piece of a dark and very individual character, almost a 'gothic piece'. The topos of the deserted house comes from the literature of Victorian England, but also po...

Is it possible to reduce large opera scores to scores for a small ensemble which even includes a guitar? If you let yourself in for it, you will be amply rewarded: beautiful melodies, magnificent inte...

Thierry Pécou's demanding Sextet for piano and wind quintet can be played by students and professional ensembles alike.The composer got his inspiration to write this piece from listening to a gamelan...

Seit jeher gehören berühmte Requiem-Vertonungen zu den großen interpretatorischen Herausforderungen im Bereich der Chorliteratur. In seiner modernen Komposition spiegelt der rheinische Komponist Eduar...

In 1826 Weber wrote musical arrangements of ten traditional Scottish melodies. Some of the texts of the German edition follow the original English texts, others are completely independent texts.The in...

This concerto follows the structure of the Italian overture - fast, slow, fast. The first movement is a sonata form without development, based on three themes, rhythmical, oriental, waltz respectively...

Heinz Holliger composed the three-movement work in January 2016 as funeral music for the legendary flutist Aurèle Nicolet who had died shortly before. The pivotal middle movement sons d'or for bass fl...

This work drew its inspiration from the famous picture of the Virgin Mary 'Gnadenbild Mariahilf' (1537) by Lucas Cranach the Elder which shows Mary as a woman of delicate beauty and modest sensuality...

As most of my instrumental pieces, Joyce is also based on a literary source. My first string quartet (Korrespondenz) transferred the correspondence between Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at time...

Between Sisters (1990) is a musical setting of The House Slave, a poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove, and is scored for alto flute, piano, soprano, and vibraphone. S...

Jasper Drag was commissioned by Michigan State University and the Phillips Collection for the Verdehr Trio. The title refers to the June 7, 1998 Jasper, Texas incident, wherein three white men dragged...

Triple Set was commissioned by the Flute/Clarinet Duos Consortium, an organization of 17 groups which will give the premiere performances of the work. I've always been fascinated by the flute and clar...