Partitions pour instruments à cordes

Eberl's Sonata in D major, Op.20, the sixth of seven sonatas with violin, was composed around 1803 and dedicated to Dorothea Ertmann, the highly regarded pianist who many have suggested as Beethoven's...

Among Vienna's many composers and pianists of the time, Anton Eberl (1765-1807) was the one considered most worthy of comparison with Beethoven. His Sonata in B flat major, Op. 35, the last of seven s...

A manuscript of this sonata was discovered in the collection of the Rose family, Lairds of Kilravock (near Inverness). Copied in a late 17th- or early 18th-century hand and inserted into a keyboard bo...

Only a handful of Schreivogel's compositions for his instrument have survived. Among them is this sparkling three-movement sonata for violin and continuo in E flat major, evidently composed late in hi...

La Libertà is the most original, and among the most attractive, of Maurice Greene's secular vocal compositions on Italian texts. Strong circumstantial evidence indicates that he wrote it as a composit...

In this first volume Sonata No. 1, in E minor, opens with a lively movement full of motivic play between violin and continuo. It continues with a fleet corrente-style movement, then a slow movement fo...

Antoine Favre (c.1670-c.1739) was a composer of rare ability whose few surviving collections, all published during the 1730s, have hitherto remained unknown not only to performers but also to the majo...

The sonatas of the Venetian composer and priest Diogenio Bigaglia (c.1676-c.1745) have long found favour among recorder players in particular. This group of three sonatas for violin (or alternative tr...

It is one of numerous concertos by Vivaldi known to have been played by Anna Maria, the most celebrated of the many remarkable performers produced by the Ospedale della Pietà, the Venetian charitable...

These 50 variations are based on a Gavotte by Arcangelo Corelli. Each variation is a small étude developing an important element of violin technique.

A solemn introductory Grave where the solo violin occasionally breaks out from the repeated chords with short cantabile sections, is followed by a fluent Allegro with difficult sounding passage work,...

Dieses Werk erhielt im Jahre 1965 den Preis des Verbandes tschechoslowakischer Komponisten und im Jahre 1966 den Preis der Kritik.

Von den insgesamt 5 Sonaten für Violine und Klavier waren bisher nur die drei letzten allgemein bekannt. Diese zweite Sonate, aus dem Nachlass, stammt aus dem Jahre 1926, einer kurzen 'neoklassizistis...

Here is a piece of music that is fun to play, an early work by a composer of the late Dada period and classical jazz. Erwin Schulhoff made his name in the 1920s with piano music inspired by jazz and D...