Schott Musik

Throughout his career the Austrian composer and musicologist Hans Gál (1890-1987) wrote a number of operas, orchestral works, concertos and vocal pieces, and during the latter part of his life he conc...

Heinz Holliger, more than any other oboist, has been a unique driving force in the development of 20th-century oboe playing. This early sonata for oboe is nevertheless more than just a tour de force a...

A typical solo concerto of the Mannheim School which contributed to the fact that this new style was spread all over the world by the composer and celebrated oboe virtuoso Lebrun. This work convinces...

The reputation of the Bohemian composer Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900) has always been somewhat overshadowed by that of Bedrich Smetana and Antonín Dvorák. This is a pity, for Fibich, though he died young,...

Stimulated by my love of automata, this work for solo oboe takes its name from the invention of Wolfgang von Kempelen, who in the late eighteenth century constructed an extraordinary mechanical man po...

'Amethyst Deceiver' is a short piece inspired by the idea of a mysterious woodland setting in which strange things come to life. 'Amethyst deceivers' are tiny purple mushrooms, rarely seen, but when f...

The composition Perroquets d'azur owes its existence to the oboist François Leleux who issued the commission in 1993 and gave the first performance of the work.In adherence to a compositional traditio...

The composition Perroquets d'azur owes its existence to the oboist François Leleux who issued the commission in 1993 and gave the first performance of the work.In adherence to a compositional traditio...

The melodies from George Gershwin's (1898-1937) musicals, from 'Porgy and Bess', from orchestral pieces like 'Rhapsody in Blue' or 'An American in Paris', we all know them! But the career of the young...

Der tschechische Komponist Viktor Kalabis komponierte zahlreiche Instrumentalwerke - darunter fünf Sinfonien, mehrere Solokonzerte sowie Kammermusik. Seine Kompositionstechniken stehen dem Neoklassizi...