Schott Musik

These six character pieces come from Ligeti's famous piano cycle 'Musica ricercata'. Now wild, now cheerful, now contemplative, now excited - each of these miniatures is an unmistakable gem.The minima...

'Panta rhei - everything is in a state of flux' is the bottom line of what the Greek philosopher Heraclitus believed. 'Everything is in a continual state of flux and change' - to him, this was 'logos'...

The subtitle 'For a young elephant' of 'Circus Polka' composed by Stravinsky is due to the piece's original use as music for a ballet performance with 50 elephants and the same number of ballerinas. T...

I got the idea of writing this piece during a rehearsal with Klaus Michael Grüber I saw in Berlin. Three actors were rehearsing a scene of Kleist. At the end, Grüber said: '… now once again in a diffe...

Minimax was premiered in 1923 in the original version for string quartet at the Donaueschinger Musiktage and was arranged for saxophone quartet by Christoph Enzel in 2014. The 6 parodies of military m...

This work was composed for the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach's death. It was premiered in Erfurt cathedral by the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet and Silvius von Kessel, the cathedral organist. The work c...

after the Quartet for Clarinet and String Trio

These duets, composed in 1855 are intended to help students to progress - technically and especially musically in carefully designed stages. Starting with the octave g'-g', students acquire a solid mu...

These duets, composed in 1855 are intended to help students to progress - technically and especially musically in carefully designed stages. Starting with the octave g'-g', students acquire a solid mu...

As often as Ref. has had the opportunity to hear duets by this master, they have again provided the pleasing proof that Mr. K. knows how to work on this difficult musical genre in an exemplary manner;...

Anton Stamitz (1750 - around 1800) composed important contributions to the flute literature. The son of the famous 'Mannheim' Johann Stamitz lived for a long time in Paris and Versailles, where he pub...

Unlike some of the early compositions attributed to him, Quantz's Opus 2 is one of the works legitimized by his autobiography. The duets were first published in 1759, a few years after the 'Versuch ei...

Unlike some of the early compositions attributed to him, Quantz's Opus 2 is one of the works legitimized by his autobiography. The duets were first published in 1759, a few years after the 'Versuch ei...

A cellist in the Mannheim court orchestra, Anton Filtz (1733-1760) wrote two well-known flute concertos and numerous chamber music works apart from 40 symphonies. Schubert wrote about him in his 'Ästh...

The present work 'Pantomime' by Paul Hindemith, now available as a separate edition for the first time, comes from his opera 'Cardillac', performed in 1926 for the first time, a musical setting of the...

François Devienne was active as a flutist and bassoonist and left behind a rich compositional oeuvre (operas, orchestral and chamber music). He was also important as a teacher and taught at the Conser...

An original work for 2 flutes with basso continuo. The version with 2 violins is also possible.