Schott Musik

Black Earth was inspired by Kara Toprak, a popular song in Turkey. The composer of the song, As?k Veysel (1891-1973), was one of the last great Turkish balladeers and the final link in a thousand-year...

The Virtuoso Piano Transcription Series presents sophisticated piano transcriptions of well-known past and present works. The art of transcription and paraphrase, particularly established by Franz Lis...

The Easy Concert Pieces series by the experienced piano teacher Monika Twelsiek presents easy piano pieces for beginners in progressive order. Three volumes have already been published. These pieces a...

The 12 melodious miniatures inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven's best-known works offer surprising playing moments on the piano. Starting with well-known motifs from the "Moonlight" or Waldstein sonatas...

Composer Barbara Heller has been challenging the artistic imagination for many years by using a limited amount of musical material in her works. An example of this approach can be seen in her work as...

This collection tells little stories on the piano, written for some very young pianists. Each title sets a musical and technical challenge. Individual pieces may be put together to tell a longer story...

This effective encore piece was written for the piano duo Lucas & Arthur Jussen. Virtuoso scales and percussive inside-piano effects put the gloomy and aggressive tonal world of the piano to the extre...

These sonatas by Weber are edited from the text of the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition.

Both waltzes are based on the famous musical cryptogram B-A-C-H and were created in 1975. The very same year, Nino Rota was asked by Federico Fellini, who was just shooting the film Casanova, to write...

This arrangement of Organ Fantasia BWV 572 for piano solo is an excellent addition to your piano library. Arranged by Vyacheslav Gryaznov for intermediate to advanced players, this high baroque piece...

This arrangement of Habenera for piano duet is an excellent addition to your teaching repetoire, perfect for young players of an easy to intermediate level. At the request of his first teacher, Manana...

En las seis variaciones, Heucke retoma técnicas compositivas típicas de Schubert y desarrolla diferentes caracteres de las variaciones, por ejemplo jugando con la tonalidad mayor-menor. Un verdadero e...

This book presents pianists and ambitious amateur musicians with unfamiliar, surprisingly flamboyant and often

Nikolai Kapustin, born in 1937, is considered a pioneer of the Soviet jazz scene. His music combines typical jazz idioms with classical forms. This anthology contains some of his most popular piano wo...

In her transcription of Brahms' Symphony No. 4 Idil Biret follows the original score. Sometimes, however, she also notated by ear, thus creating a broad spectrum of timbres and expressions for the pla...

Kapustin composed his Berceuse Op. 65 in 1991. A soulful jazz-harmonic 5 minutes of piano music, suitable for advanced students or amateur pianists with a bit of practice. A beautiful lullaby in ABA f...

Jazz rock at a high speed! The character of the piece is clear from the title. The tremendous driving force and rocky jazz theme make this piano miniature a fun and spectacular show piece!

The Humoresque op. 75 - composed in 1994 - is considered one of the most difficult pieces by Kapustin. Presented in the standard jazz form, the variations sound like improvisations, influenced by McCo...

Kapustin composed the 3 Etudes op. 67 in 1992. The first étude, entitled Glissandi, is written in a swing jazz mood. In No. 2 Ripetizione the difficulty lies in the complexity of the rhythm. No.3 Grap...

The 6 Little Pieces op. 133 composed in 2007 are, after his Sonatina op. 100 (Schott, ED 22853), Kapustins easiest works for piano. The pieces can be played individually, the intervals are all within...