Schott Musik

Sketched in Australia in 1981 at a time when Gilbert was studying Australian birdsong-choruses, the completion of Dawnfaring's mixture of freely and conventionally notated material was delayed until 1...

Mark Anthony Turnage, who celebrates his 50th birthday this summer, composed On Opened Ground for one of the world's most celebrated viola soloists, Yuri Bashmet, and the Cleveland Orchestra. The titl...

Huw Watkin's Minatures for viola and piano were written for violist Simon Rowland-Jones and first performed at the North Norfolk Music Festival in 2009. There are eight short movements. The first has...

Fit in 15 Minutes is intended for occasional players who are very short of time and want to maintain and improve their violin technique in a concentrated and effective quarter of an hour. They can als...

The Israeli composer Menachem Wiesenberg (* 1950) is renowned not only in his own country for his many commissioned compositions and performances in Europe and America. His works, most of which are wr...

This popular piece is now available in a version for viola. In close collaboration with Henze, the arranger Garth Knox created an edition in which the dynamics and phrasing have been made more precise...

The Sonata for Viola and Piano (1984) is not based - as is common in the 'classical' sonata form - on the dualism of two opposing themes. The dialectics are in the juxtaposition of two homogenous move...

The only work still known today by Noack, 'Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade' [Parade of the Brownies] Op. 5 was called a 'character piece' by the composer himself, and this 'marche en miniature' conveys w...

Composed in 1886, the tremolo study 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra' is without doubt Tarrega's best-known piece. It evokes memories of the Moorish citadel located on a hill in the Spanish Granada.Thanks to...

Franz Anton Hoffmeister sicherte sich als Musikverleger in Wien einen wichtigen Platz in der Musikgeschichte. Er war aber auch ein überaus fruchtbarer und geschätzter Komponist der Wiener Klassik. Sei...