Schott Musik

Lichtstudie III ist eine Studie zur Variabilität pianistischer Clusterbildungen. Inspiriert von den Raum-Licht-Installationen James Turrells wird eine Statik von Klangflächen erprobt, ein introspektiv...

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporar...

Improvised and also composed solo cadenzas, normally occuring towards the end of a bravura aria or an instrumental concerto movement, have existed since the late 16th century. They provide the perform...

More than 50 little waltzes for piano, easily playable in lessons or for the player's own pleasure. The composer has grouped the pieces according to the weekdays, wishing for the lively form of the wa...

'White Keys - Black Keys' was written by Barbara Heller in December 2003 for a pianist who likes to improvise and loves a certain freedom in a work. Although an order of the parts is pre-determined in...

For centuries, people have written diaries, confiding in them how much money they had spent on cigarettes or how delightful the walk the previous evening had been. Composers write music in their diari...

The exceptional pianist Marc-André Hamelin has written this arrangement of the Brazilian world hit Tico Tico no Fubá for piano solo. Using all means of classical virtuoso piano playing, Hamelin has Ti...

The combination of cantabile elements and tight staccato rhythm, typical of Shchedrin's piano music, makes this 'little' sonata an effective, yet quite easily playable piece. It is unmistakable that t...

n these two short piano pieces, Italian composer Adriano Cirillo (b. 1951) has sought to capture in music the elusive qualities of nostalgia and melancholy that Charles Baudelaire designated as 'Splee...

Petr Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, whom Igor Stravinsky charakterized as being 'deeply national', represents the culmination of 'Russion Classical music' of the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Prob...

The work of Paul Hindemith is encyclopedic in nature. From the outset, he worked in all musical genres and devised several of his musical ideas and projects not as individual, self-contained works but...

The six piano works 'Sonata No. 2' Op. 22, 'Nachtstücke' Op. 23, 'Faschingsschwank aus Wien' Op. 26, 'Drei Romanzen' Op. 28, 'Scherzo, Gigue, Romanze and Fughette' Op. 32 as well as '43 Clavierstücke...

The three soloistic compositions were much influenced by a fundamental new beginning in composing. His works were no longer to be characterized by intuitive composing based on sudden impulses. Now, co...