Wolfgang Birtel: Partituras medio

The Violinissimo series attempts to make the rich repertoire of five centuries of violin music accessible for lessons, concerts and private music-making. The anthology Serenade contains a selection of...

It is therefore quite wrong to place just mechanical or mediocre players at the viola', warned Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart in 1784/85 in his 'Ideen zu einer Ästhetik der Tonkunst'. Some disreg...

The collection “Best of Viola Classics - 16 Famous Concert Pieces” for viola and piano presented by Schott contains a selection of works that can accompany every pupil in many years of his or her viol...

The fourth volume of the Violinissimo series features the most important studies for the early years of violin lessons. Violin Studies contains selections from the standard works by Kayser, Dont, Wohl...

The Classical Highlights series presents the best-known and most popular performance pieces of the classical repertoire in arrangements for various instruments - and now for string quartet. Apart from...

33 pieces for violin and piano which are fun to play - this is what the new anthology of Wolfgang Birtel in the Violinissimo series has to offer! In addition to Joplin's eponymous work The Entertainer...

Again and again composers have been inspired by the animal world and have represented the nature of the most diverse animals in music - be it locomotion, such as the flight of a butterfly or the wrigg...

Violine und Basso continuo (Klavier); Violoncello (Viola da gamba) ad lib.

On 11 August 2011 it is fifty years since the death of the composer Johanna Senfter from Oppenheim who actually was a trained violinist for she had studied with renowned violinists at the Hoch Conserv...

El Trío en sol mayor / mi menor op. 103 del compositor de Oppenheim y alumno de Max Regers puede asignarse a la obra tardía del compositor por el número de opus, aunque no pueda determinarse el año de...

The Belgian violinist and composer Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881) was one of the most important violin virtuosos of the 19th century. Concert tours took him throughout Europe and to the USA; for only a...

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1932) is regarded as one of the most important Polish composers since Chopin. He received his formative musical training in Warsaw where he lived for many years and was also di...

The musician Alexander Glasunov (1865 1936) from Petersburg owes his musical career to fellow composer Milij Balakirev who put him in contact with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1880 for private studies....

There is hardly a violinist who has not dealt with some or even all 42 'Kreutzer etudes' sometime or other: Études ou caprices form part of the standard repertoire. Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831) has n...

With this double concerto, the Reger pupil Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) is entirely in the tradition of Antonio Vivaldi and J.S. Bach, although she combines the concerto form with the classical four-mo...

The composer and violinist Johanna Senfter from Oppenheim wrote concert works, such as chamber music works for violin, her whole life. Being a pupil of Reger, who held her in high esteem, she composed...

The only work still known today by Noack, 'Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade' [Parade of the Brownies] Op. 5 was called a 'character piece' by the composer himself, and this 'marche en miniature' conveys w...

Fritz Kreisler's (1875-1962) collection Klassische Manuskripte written by the violin virtuoso around the turn of the century who pretended they were transcriptions of movements by old masters such as...

In her music, the composer Johanna Senfter, student of Max Reger in Leipzig, devoted herself entirely to the late Romanticism. While her music had been regarded as old-fashioned for a long time, the p...

With this double concerto, the Reger pupil Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) is entirely in the tradition of Antonio Vivaldi and J.S. Bach, although she combines the concerto form with the classical four-mo...

Leopold Mozart, father of the unequalled genius Wolfgang Amadeus, also composed music, but is understandably eclipsed by his son. His trumpet concerto has even been handed down twice, i.e. also as par...

Brilliant encore pieces, virtuoso pièces de résistance and reflective melodies by Faurè, Raff, Elgar, Wieniawski, Rachmaninoff, Massenet, Tchaikovsky, Paganini, de Falla, Sarasate, and many more. A tr...

To mark its 250th anniversary, the Schott publishing house has dug up and reedited treasures from its historical publishing archives. This anthology is aimed at professional musicians and advanced ama...

Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) was a pupil of Max Reger.Beginning with an expressive violin theme in a densely packed, 'Brahms-like' piano setting, the classical four-movement work centres around two cap...