Schott Musik

The organist and composer Peter Morhard (date of birth unknown, died in Lüneburg in 1685) belongs to the North German organ school. Little is known about his life, but from 1662 until his death he wor...

This organ piece is ideal as liturgical piece for Lent and All Saints' Day/Sunday before Advent commemorating the dead but also for organ concerts on the topic of death and transitoriness.'Poème funèb...

The sonata premiered in 2016 is based on the Luther chorale Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist (Come, God Creator, Holy Spirit) and consists of three parts: 'The first movement transforms the first e...

New Music on old instruments and new organ literature in dialogue with historical Iberian works. The present edition contains a collection of works, composed for an authentically rebuilt historical Sp...

The pretty Basque song 'Iru erége', which tells of the three wise men from the Orient travelling to Bethlehem to worship the baby Jesus, gave me the idea for a musical interpretation of this astonishi...

The successful operetta composer Jean Gilbert (pseudonym of Max Winterfeld) was a cousin of Paul Dessau. Dessau composed the piece for the wedding of Mariana Stark, a relative of both Paul Dessau and...

Melchior Schildt (1592-1667) was organist at the Market Church in Hanover and studied with J.P. Sweelinck, among others. As well as two early free compositions for organ (Praeambulum in G) this volume...

Postlude' was one of 10 birthday candles written for Mobius' 10th anniversary and is scored for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet. At just 3 minutes in length and with a lento tempo marking, 'P...

Like Goehr's quintet for clarinet and strings op. 79, manere is influenced by early music and more specifically the Gregorian chant Sic eum volo manére found in the Graduale Romanorum. The work itself...

The music for 'Soul Catcher' was originally composed as an electroacoustic work for dance commissioned by English Dance Theatre in 1988. Casken later returned to the work and made a new version for ma...

The formal thinking behind the piece is based on the interaction between individually determined periodic rhythms and a cumulative polyrhythmic overall structure. Although the overall rhythmic structu...

Aschermittwochsmusik (Music for Ash Wednesday) unites Latin hymns with a meditative sound world in which German Psalms are interwoven. The work is suitable for both liturgical and non-liturgy performa...

This title brings together 'A Choral Fanfare' and 'Signum' of the festival 'Europa Cantat 2006'. The two short telling pieces can also be performed separately a cappella, but the use of brass achieves...

In these unique and exciting arrangements of Renaissance music and dance, Rempel and Kunzman frame their approach to the monophonic melodies with unifying borduns, accompanying Orff instruments, recor...

With this work, Zimmermann created a score just as transparent as effective and witty which is based on the vigorous melody of the Rhenish dances.

With regard to its sound-world, this is a work of tempered modernity, written for several groups of players in which the composer makes use of typical horn motifs. The Intrade is technically demanding...

With regard to its sound-world, this is a work of tempered modernity, written for several groups of players in which the composer makes use of typical horn motifs. The Intrade is technically demanding...

Despite the central role of the organ in the life of Johann Wilhelm Häßler (1747-1822), he dealt with the organ only occasionally as a composer. The 'Acht und vierzig kleine(n) Orgelstücke, theils zu...

Matthias Weckmann, born in Niederdorla near Mühlhausen (Thuringia) in 1616 and died in Hamburg in 1674, was trained as a musician by Heinrich Schütz in Dresden among others. He worked as an organist i...