Schott Musik

Iwan Müller, clarinetist, composer and reformer of the clarinet, was born in Reval (Russia) to German parents. Ivan Müller received his first employment in St. Petersburg. In 1809 he went to Paris and...

Joseph Panny was born in Kollmitzberg, today Lower Austria. He received his first music lessons from his father Jakob, a schoolmaster. Later he was educated in Vienna in violin, piano and singing. Moz...

Three challenging pieces by the Latvian-born composer, in his characteristic idiom of traditional and folk elements incorporated with contemporary influences.

While his contemporary Paul Hindemith found new approaches to composition, Gál remained rooted in the Germanic tradition. The Sonata clearly follows in the footsteps of the great masters Brahms and Re...

A neo-impressionistic, virtuosic-cantabile atmospheric picture.

Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817-1890) left to the musical world an extensive oeuvre of orchestral and chamber music works, works for organ and piano, lieder and chants as well as incidental music. His versat...

The three-part albumleaf for clarinet and piano shows Rota's unique inventiveness and his unerring sense of atmospherically dense harmonies. The clarinet plays catchy, song-like motifs which develop a...

'They offer rewarding tasks to the player and give him the opportunity to show his brilliant virtuosity and achieve unusual effects while using all registers. Thanks to their virtuoso colours and unbr...

The Greek composer Nickos Harizanos, born in 1969, was awarded a prize at the Harald Genzmer Composition Competition 2010 for this work. Written in free tonality and extremely rewarding for the clarin...

The sense of longing, characteristic of every elegy, is really made for the tonal world of the clarinet. In this attractive concert piece, however, it is 'loaded with barbed hooks', as the composer on...