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My first violin concerto, 'The Psalms of Taciturnity', describes the inner feelings that cannot be expressed verbally, but that also cannot remain unexpressed. There is the human spirit's pain, sorrow...

My own new orchestral composition has the title 'WRITING'. The practical action of writing, as a mechanical action by hand, pen, brush, on a surface (paper, parchment, stone, etc.), triggered and cont...

Mendelssohn's overture was inspired by two poems by Goethe, which had already inspired Ludwig van Beethoven to write a choral work accompanied by orchestra. The main work on this piece probably took p...

A repertoire work in the Urtext for practice edited by Christoph Hellmundt.

Urtext-Neuland: Die Ouvertüre Leonore Nr. 3 To this day, the two central Fidelio overtures are performed from musical texts that date back to the inaccurate and erroneous first printings of the parts....

... without a warm feeling of love' 'Tchaikovsky urtext' is no longer a rarity in the Breitkopf orchestral catalog. Polina Vajdman edits an extremely popular repertoire work, which the composer himsel...

Un 'fuego artificial' en Urtext Después de 'Boléro' y 'La Valse', una tercera obra de Ravel, muy interpretada, se incluye en el programa orquestal de Breitkopf - y esto, por supuesto, en una edición '...

The cycle Seven Early Songs, based on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets, was compiled in 1928, more than twenty years after the individual songs were composed. Alban Berg selected seven of...

On their way to Salzburg, Constanze and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a stopover in Linz in the fall of 1783. The stay was productive: the 13-voice, four-movement Linz Symphony was created. To compose...

Vals de los sueños 'À l'exemple de Schubert' - Ravel reinventa el vals, inspirándose en Liszt, Chopin, Schumann y Chabrier, transformando los giros rapsódicos de la danza y lanzándola al siglo XX. Rav...

En su Hommage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel no se dirige tanto al propio Couperin como a la música francesa del siglo XVIII. Por otra parte, el editor Jean-Francois Monnard expone en su prefacio cómo...

First the general news on the consistently closed group of works: with the new edition of the G minor Symphony, the three late Mozart works K. 543, 550 and 551 are now available in the Breitkopf Urtex...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...

The first textcritical edition of Mahler's most extensive work is a further milestone in the project, 'Mahler - The Symphonies.' The many sources first consulted here for an edition include, among oth...

Desde su estreno ha suscitado reacciones apasionadas. A día de hoy, la Quinta de Mahler sigue siendo un trabajo duro tanto para los intérpretes como para los oyentes, además de un problema (casi) irre...

The Song of the Earth, composed in the summer of 1908, is Mahler's best-known and most personal work. Reflecting drastic changes in his life, its immense emotional density is very moving. Until the ve...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy created a standard work with his final violin concerto in E minor op. 64 MWV O 14 that is now firmly established in today's concert repertoire. When in 1838 the composer in...

Tod und Verklärung marks a turning point in Richard Strauss's corpus of tone poems: Even before the November 1889 premiere of his previous work Don Juan, Strauss had finished his third work in this ge...

The first textcritical edition of Mahler's most extensive work is a further milestone in the project, 'Mahler - The Symphonies.' The many sources first consulted here for an edition include, among oth...

Of all his symphonies, Mahler gave the Fourth, his favorite and problem child, his most particular attention. 'The Heavenly Life,' a humoresque composed in 1892 for soprano and piano, which he already...

Desde su estreno ha suscitado reacciones apasionadas. A día de hoy, la Quinta de Mahler sigue siendo un trabajo duro tanto para los intérpretes como para los oyentes, además de un problema (casi) irre...

Mahlers Neunte singt von Schönheit, Liebe und Vergänglichkeit. "Welt! Lebe wohl" notierte Mahler über den letzten Takten. Seine letzte vollendete Symphonie umarmt die Welt von Gestern und stößt zuglei...

The Song of the Earth, composed in the summer of 1908, is Mahler's best-known and most personal work. Reflecting drastic changes in his life, its immense emotional density is very moving. Until the ve...