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...

Barbara Hellers Klangblumen gibt es neben der Ausgabe für Klavier (Schott ED 20374) und Violine und Klavier (Schott VLB 136) nun auch für Violine und Harfe.Jedes der 14 Stücke weist einen besonderen S...

Born in Beirut and trained at the Paris Conservatoire, the organist and composer Naji Hakim (*1955) has won numerous prizes both as a creative and as a performing artist. After having worked as an org...

There is no other work more closely associated with the organ than Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata in D minor. During my compositional preparation, I repeatedly found myself returning to this work. I...

In Heinz Holliger's works, the succinct term 'transcriptions' conceals multi-layered variants of the enigmatic source material and the most subtle diversification of sound, using the technical possibi...

Used as a place of worship for centuries, first by Christians and then by Muslims (from 1453), the Hagia Sophia (Istanbul) still amazes people from all over the world. Since 1934, it is a museum - but...

'With their pure fresh aroma, the tea leaves meet the steaming water that gurgles down into the purple clay teapot. The leaves begin to dance a mystic step, sing a historical song, and celebrate a gre...

Blockflöte (wechselnd Sopranino-Blockflöte, Sopran-Blockflöte, Alt-Blockflöte, Tenor-Blockflöte, Bass-Blockflöte), Celesta und Gitarre

Among the pupils of J. S. Bach, Johann Ludwig Krebs was ranked highly. Being one of the most talented of Bach's students, Krebs was already during his lifetime regarded as an extraordinary composer an...

Among the pupils of J. S. Bach, Johann Ludwig Krebs was ranked highly. Being one of the most talented of Bach's students, Krebs was already during his lifetime regarded as an extraordinary composer an...

Im Schülerkreis um J. S. Bach nimmt Johann Ludwig Krebs eine Schlüsselposition ein. Als einer der begabtesten Eleven Bachs galt Krebs bereits zu Lebzeiten als außergewöhnlicher Komponist und Organist...

Arabesques' was a compulsory piece at the ARD Competition 'Organ 2011' and has since been in great demand as a concert piece by organists at home and abroad. The composer writes about his work:'Song a...

The quintet was printed and published in a revised version as opus 30 in 1954. Now, the first version of 1923, edited on the basis of the text of the Paul Hindemith Complete Edition, is published for...