Dover Publications

The three volumes of The Masterwork In Music present complete English translations of major works by Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker, one of the twentieth century's leading figures in thefie...

Based on the play by Beaumarchais, The Barber Of Seville is one of the greatest of all comic operas, delighting audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melodic elegance, rhythmic exhilaration,...

Edward MacDowell (1860 - 1908) was America's most prominent nineteenth-century composer. Championed by Franz Liszt, he was one of the first U. S. composers to gain international recognition. A leading...

The melodies, harmonies, moods, and rhythms of Norwegian folk songs and dances — even the sounds of old Norwegian folk instruments — inspired and filled the music of Edvard Grieg. These distinctive in...

Albert Schweitzer. Contains a virtual history of Protestant church music, narrowing the study to Germany, tracing to their roots the forms used by Bach and assesses the contributions of other composer...

This volume is reproduced directly from the famous Breitkopf & Hartel series published at Leipzig under the title Franz Schubert's Werke. Included are The Quintet in C Major (1828), the 15 quartets, a...

The definitive biography and critical study of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), this volume deals at length not only with with the composer's musical achievements but also with aspects of his life an...

Adagio from Concerto for Oboe * Affetuoso from Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 * Air on a G String * Aria from Goldberg Variations * Arioso in G Major * Bouree * Bouree from Overture in French Style * Bran...

Beethoven's Bagatelles are short masterful works that have proved tremendously popular for the technical challenges they offer. This collection reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf & Hortel edi...

Beethoven's bagatelles are short compositions written over the span of the composer's lifetime, from the early to the late periods. Ranging from easy to intermediate level, these popular pieces displa...

Edited by Alfred Dorffel and Wolfgang Graser. Breitkopf & Hortel complete works edition. Includes piano reduction of 'The Art Of The Fugue'.

Characterized by editor Sara Davis Buechner as 'elegant Romantic salon music of the Russian school, subtly genteel, with early impressionistic shadings, ' the piano music of Anton Arensky formed the f...

Danish composer Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832) is best known for his Piano works. These 19 highly accessible sonatinas are staples of the keyboard repertoire. They offer intermediate-level pianists trai...

Edited by Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel. A highly interesting glimpse of Beethoven, as revealed in his own words. Over 300 reflections on the art of composing.

The 457 letters collected here are the most important letters in the spirit that was to shape and move a century. With explanatory notes by Dr. A. C. Kalisher.

Anton Felix Schindler. Schindler's intimate view of the composer - his music, how he was viewed by his contemporaries, his personality, his deafness - a standard reference work essential to the Beetho...

Selected Music For Solo Piano is a vast collection of pieces by English composer and violinist Frank Bridge. Bridge is mostly remembered for privately tutoring Benjamin Britten, who later championed h...

Mendelssohn's Lieder Ohne Worte, or ' Songs without Words , ' is among the most loved, most played collections in the Romantic Piano repertoire. Reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel ed...

This is the last of nearly 100 operettas created by French composer Jacques Offenbach, a native of Germany whose works were most prominent in the latter half of the nineteenth century. His three-act d...

Arthur Rackham. Sixty-four full colour illustrations from 'Seigfried & The Twilight Of The Gods' and 'The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie. '

Selected and edited by Hans Mersmann. Covers the composer's entire life, from his childhood travels to his last days. Includes several letters to and from his father.

Altogether, a sensitive and tasteful document. - Library Journal A series of themed essays rather than a traditional biography, this profile of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist is the work of...

This superbly edited selection of nearly three hundred of Chopin's letters, the first to be published in English, vividly reveals the composer as man and artist. The tone of the letters is exuberantly...

In addition to his skills as a composer and performer, Liszt is famed for his genius in transcribing Orchestral works for Piano. Thanks to his efforts, pianists in the era before sound recordings coul...

Unique and comprehensive, this fantasic collection features a tremendous variety of slow movements for keyboard players. Highlights of these evocative selections come from masterpieces including sona...