Schott Musik

The subtitle 'For a young elephant' of 'Circus Polka' composed by Stravinsky is due to the piece's original use as music for a ballet performance with 50 elephants and the same number of ballerinas. T...

The French composer Jean Françaix arranged Mozart's Quintet in E flat major for four wind instruments and piano in 1995. He maintained the original parts for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, yet tran...

The French composer Jean Françaix arranged Mozart's Quintet in E flat major for four wind instruments and piano in 1995. He maintained the original parts for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, yet tran...

Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984) wrote his Sonatina da camera at the suggestion of Prof. Hugo Ruf who had been looking for attractive new music for his 'old' instrument and for his students at the Cologn...

Enjott Schneider in dialogue with Mozart: Even the instrumentation of the nine-minute Mozart-Mantras alludes to Mozart, a co-inventor of the genre of clarinet quintet. With regard to motif, they are b...

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...

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...