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Ever since Mozart encountered the clarinet in Mannheim in 1778 he loved the instrument's warm and expressive tone. His friendship with Anton Stadler, the clarinetist in the Royal-Imperial Court Orches...

It is quite clear to me what is missing from today's music: a Mozart!' With his trios which he consciously kept in a classical manner, Reger hoped to prove the contrary to the 'ignorant people', who f...

This is Mozart's only piece of chamber music for the oboe - and no oboist would want to be without it! Like the Clarinet Quintet, the Oboe Quartet of 1781 was written for a friend: Friedrich Ramm, a m...

What might have occasioned Mozart to rework his original Serenade for sextet into a version for octet (with two oboes) only a few months after he had completed it? Was there an 'external” cause? Once...

I've had to turn out a serenade on short order': these lines from Mozart to his father offer a glimpse into the everyday life of a composer dependent on patronage. Mozart was about to be married when...

'Wind music of a very special nature on a large-scale, a composition by Hr. Mozart' - this was the way the 'Wiener Blättchen' announced the concert in the National Court Theatre, in which the clarinet...

We not only owe three of Mozart's horn concertos to his friendship with Ignaz Leutgeb; the solo part of this unusual chamber music work was also written especially for him. Instead of having two violi...

Written in March 1886 as a humorous occasional work for the traditional carnival concert organized by his cellist friend Charles-Joseph Lebouc, the Carnival of the Animals was so successful that Saint...

It is hardly surprising that Beethoven did not write any more chamber music for winds after 1800. Following the change to middle-class musical culture, demand declined for buoyant serenades and divert...

The three Duos for Clarinet and Bassoon WoO 27 stylistically belong to Beethoven's earliest creative period. Due to their lively character, the skilful play with timbre, and the fact that they are not...

In 1849 Schumann turned to a new genre: works for piano and an accompanying instrument. The first work he composed were the Fantasy Pieces for Piano and Clarinet op. 73, immediately followed by the Ad...

Camille Saint-Saëns composed his two Romances for Horn for two of the most respected French horn players of the time: Opus 67 in E major from 1866 is dedicated to Henri Chaussier; Opus 36 in F major f...

Paul Dukas wrote his Villanelle as a demanding exam piece for the horn class of the Paris Conservatoire in 1906. The title, referencing a cheerful traditional vocal genre that originated in 16th centu...

> For horn in F > First Urtext edition > Glazunov's autograph consulted for the first time in St. Petersburg > Highly Romantic work > Effective recital piece, even for advanced pupils > Fingering: Kla...

Scriabin is mainly known for his mystic-visionary piano works today; but his Romance for horn, which he composed at a young age, is also a charming chamber music work. The technically not very demandi...

The Dane Carl Nielsen was one of the most original composers at the turn of the 20th century. Based on the German Romantic tradition he developed his own musical language, especially in his symphonies...

Mozart's clean autograph provides a secure basis for this Urtext edition, which deliberately does not level minor subtleties and deviations by Mozart at parallel and repeated passages. The horn parts...

Mendelssohn in all probability composed the sonata for Carl Baron von Kaskel, who was also acquainted with Schumann and Wagner, and who dabbled in playing the clarinet and composing. The autograph of...

> With additional, alternative clarinet part for the basset horn part > Fingering: Klaus Schilde 'Favourite dish in exchange for favourite music' - this perfectly summarizes the genesis of the Konzert...

Carl Nielsen's Fantasiestück for clarinet and piano is a youthful work. Nielsen was a member of the military band in Odense, Denmark. Only between 16 and 18 years old at the time, he demonstrated with...

It is little known that alongside his three great sonatas for clarinet and piano, Reger also wrote two charming miniatures for the same instrumentation. At the same time, it was the composer's express...

Urtext edition, additional viola part, paperback (with fingering).

Eight years after he had composed his first two Clarinet Sonatas op. 49, Reger confessed in a letter to a friend that he was once again committing 'a new crime against harmony and counterpoint'. He wa...

Both of these works for two oboes and cor anglais, which Beethoven composed in the 1790s, belong to the lighter genre of serenades and divertimentos. He might have written them in response to a commis...