Schott Musik

No wonder that the 'Viennese sound' was familiar to Vienna-born Fritz Kreisler, a sound which is reflected in his 'Old Viennese Dance Tunes': 'Liebesfreud', 'Liebesleid' and 'Schön Rosmarin'. They are...

Das beliebte Werk von Claus-Dieter Ludwig, das bereits in zahlreichen Besetzungen vorliegt, gibt es jetzt auch als Bearbeitung für Streichtrio. Die Menüfolge: Andante festivo e culinaro - Lento lasagn...

Franz Anton Hoffmeister is one of the most skillful and productive composers of sophisticated entertainment music at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. With his string quintet he helped the genr...

The Companion Guide to Rome is a thirty-minute cycle of pieces for violin, viola, and cello. Each movement is a character study of a particular Roman church. The music is, at different times and in di...

Eli lamah asabthani - My God, why have you left me', this word of Jesus Christ on the cross has been set to instrumental music in the slow movement of the string trio. Taken as an individual setting,...

The Belgian composer, conductor and violinist Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931) studied with H. Wieniawsky in Brussels and took numerous trips as a soloist, particularly to the USA where he worked as a conduct...

String Quartet No. 5 consists of two contrasting movements. The first movement, being present, immediately leads to an atmosphere of high emotional tension. The prevailing atmospheric elements of the...

Arnold Schönberg is the central figure in the musical world of this century. His musical significance was already apparent during his life-time, but his posthumous influence has increased immensely. H...

Apart from the ten 5-minute string quartets that I wrote in 1992 as theoriginal version of A Man in a Room, Gambling, there are 8 years between my second and third quartets. Another element which find...