Klavierpartitur mit Percussion
Chorpartitur - Kinderchor und Begleitinstrument
Viele Werke Manuel de Fallas sind fester Bestandteil des Konzert- und Theaterrepertoires, eine Darstellung seines Lebens und seiner Musik in deutscher Sprache sucht man jedoch vergebens. Der Autor ler...
Modest Mussorgsky's 'Boris Godunov', based on Pushkin's eponymous Demetrius drama, is one of the operas raising the question about their definitive version. After the 'first Boris' was rejected in 186...
Diese Sammlung der schönsten Volkslieder aus acht Jahrhunderten vermittelt ein eindrucksvolles Bild von der Vielfalt des Volksliedes im deutschsprachigen Raum. Der aufwändig ausgestattete Band ist nic...
Diese Sammlung der schönsten Volkslieder aus acht Jahrhunderten vermittelt ein eindrucksvolles Bild von der Vielfalt des Volksliedes im deutschsprachigen Raum. Das Buch erläutert Hintergründe und Gesc...
Weihnachtslieder für 2 Sopran- und 1 Alt-Blockflöte.
'La Bohème' is Puccini's fourth opera and was premiered in Turin in 1896. The tale of the consumptive Mimi goes back to a story by Henri Murger, 'Scènes de la vie de Bohème'. Puccini set the topic to...
Puccini had hardly finished his work on 'Tosca' in 1900 and seen its first performances when a new potential opera subject attracted his attention during a theatre visit in London: the play staged was...
Puccini's opera 'Tosca' was based on a stage play by Victorien Sardou which the composer had seen in Milan with the famous actress Sarah Bernhardt. The story is partly about a historical event in the...
Glücklich, endlich den langgesuchten großen Opernstoff gefunden zu haben, begann Puccini seine Turandot. Es ist sein letztes Werk: Krankheit und Tod hinderten den Komponisten an der Vollendung, die ab...
This comprehensive introduction to Giuseppe Verdi's 'Don Carlos' contains the complete libretto with numerous music examples. Kurt Pahlen comments on the work with music-related references as well exp...
Having composed five operas in the 1850s, Verdi, while looking for a suitable libretto, came across a manuscript of Eugène Scribe which had already been the subject of works by other composers. Althou...
After the composition of his opera 'Aida' and of the Requiem, Verdi withdrew completely to the Villa Sant' Agata and considered this to be the end of his career as a composer. It took a bit of cunning...
Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'Rigoletto', the tragic story of the eponymous hunchbacked court jester, is now published with the complete Italian libretto as well as the translation used by most German opera...
'La Traviata' is 'the woman gone astray', 'the wayward one'. Verdi's opera is based on the story of the novel 'La dame aux camélias' by Alexandre Dumas fils about the life of a consumptive demimondain...
After the extraordinary success of 'Rigoletto', Verdi who was constantly looking for material for an opera came across 'El trobador', a play by the Spaniard Antonio Garcia Gutiérrez. The transformatio...
No less than 37 years, more than half of Wagner's life, passed from the first idea of the opera 'Parsifal' to its world premiere in Bayreuth in 1882, it being Wagner's last stage work before his death...
Giacomo Puccinis Zusammenarbeit mit den Librettisten Giuseppe Giacosa und Luigi Illica markiert zweifellos den Höhepunkt seines Opernschaffens. Nachdem Puccinis Verleger Ricordi die beiden hoch angese...
A tamburo battente, auf einen Streich, und in einem wahren Schaffensrausch in angeblich 40 Tagen schrieb Giuseppe Verdi den 'Rigoletto' nieder, die Premiere wurde ein Triumph. Mit gleichem Schwung mac...
Based on the subject of the eponymous novella by Prosper Mérimée, 'Carmen' is George Bizet's last work. The composer died a few weeks after the unsuccessful world premiere in Paris on 3 March 1875. To...
Rossini had already composed 15 operas in just five years when he brought 'The Barber of Seville' to public attention. The libretto is based on a play by Caron de Beaumarchais - the very same Beaumarc...
Paulmichl: Trauerweide grün, op 336/2 - für 4-stimmigen Frauenchor, 2 Melodieinstrumente, 1 Baßinstrument ad lib.
Paulmichl: Trauerweide grün, op 336/2 - Stimmenset, verschiedene Instrumente
Fidelio ist Beethovens einzige Oper. Die Handlung entspringt einer historischen Begebenheit, die sich - wie der französische Dichter J. N. Bouilly sagt - in Tours ereignet hat. Was Beethoven faszinier...
The first publication of a volume of Engelbert Humperdinck's fairy-tale opera 'Hänsel and Gretel' is a valuable addition to the successful series 'Operas of the World' for this work is the second most...
After the success of his third completed opera 'Rienzi', Wagner turned to putting a topic to music which he had come across in Heinrich Heine's 'Schnabelewopski' fragment a few years before. 'The Flyi...
'Twilight of the Gods', the Third Day, brings Wagner's Ring cycle with an evening and three days, all full-length performances lasting for hours, to an end. Everything that has happened in the parts b...
Wagner's 'Lohengrin' is described as a 'great romantic opera' in which Wagner opens up two completely different worlds for the listener. On the one hand, there is the mystical world of the Knight of t...
This comprehensive introduction to Wagner's opera 'The Mastersingers of Nuremberg' contains the complete libretto with numerous music examples. Kurt Pahlen comments on the work with music-related refe...
Although 'Rhinegold', like any of the following three parts, is a drama on its own, it reveals its entire meaning only as introduction to the complete work. In 'The Nibelung's Ring', Wagner used his o...
'Siegfried' is the Second Day in Wagner's tetralogy 'The Nibelung's Ring'; the world premiere took place in Bayreuth in 1876 as part of the opening ceremony of the festival theatre. In contrast to the...
Completed in 1845, Richard Wagner's romantic opera 'Tannhäuser and the Singing Contest at the Wartburg' pursues the path taken by 'The Flying Dutchman' a few years before: from number opera to through...
Tristan und Isolde ist in der inneren Dimension schwer zu messen. Kein anderes der Musikdramen Wagners ist so völlig auf ein einziges Thema konzentriert, verzichtet so weitgehend auf theatralische Han...
This book, a comprehensive introduction to Richard Wagner's opera 'The Valkyrie', the first evening of the tetralogy 'The Nibelung's Ring', contains the complete libretto with numerous music examples....
'All Women do the Same, or The School for Lovers', this is how Lorenzo da Ponte, the librettist of Mozart's 'Dramma giocoso', entitled his libretto. Ever since the world premiere of 'Così fan tutte' i...
Mozart's 'Don Giovanni', one of the most frequently played and most popular operas since its world premiere in Prague in 1787, is based on the old familiar figure of the 'womanizer'. The character of...
This comprehensive introduction to Mozart's 'Abduction from the Seraglio' contains the complete libretto with numerous music examples. Kurt Pahlen comments on the work with music-related references as...
'La folle journée ou La mariage de Figaro' is the title of a stage play by Pierre Augustin Caron, called Beaumarchais, which caused a sensation in Paris at the beginning of the 1780s. In this 'sequel'...
This comprehensive introduction to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' contains the complete libretto with numerous music examples. Kurt Pahlen comments on the work with music-related referenc...
Mit dem durchschlagenden Erfolg der 'Entführung' begann Mozarts Opernproduktion für die Bühnen Wiens: Die Oper wurde das beliebteste Bühnenstück zu seinen Lebzeiten. 'Figaros Hochzeit' markierte den B...