Editio Musica Budapest

Franz Liszt was barely 20 years old when he first read Dante s Divine Comedy, but it left a lasting impression on him throughout his entire life that only a truly impactful creation can have on the hu...

Sonatinas form a vital part of the teaching material for beginner and intermediate piano students. Compared to the great classical piano sonatas, they are technically and musically simpler and typical...

Pál Járdányi (1920 - 1966) was one of the most distinguished figures in Hungarian music during the years following the Second World War. He was an innovative researcher in the field of folk music, an...

This is one of the most successful volumes in the series. Árpád Pejtsik s ABC does not seek to alter or influence teachers ideas about methodology, it simply offers colourful, attractive musical mater...

Between 1917 and 1931 Ottorino Respighi harmonized and instrumented twelve works from the 16th- and 17th-century Italian and French lute literature and arranged the pieces into three 4-movement suites...

This collection provides a cross-section of the musical repertoire of more than half a millennium. The editors have chosen the keys so that the pieces can be played equally well on these two widely di...

Liszt completed Weihnachtsbaum (Christmas Tree), a collection of twelve short piano pieces, in 1876. Two years earlier he laid out its concept in a letter to Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein as follows:...

L rinc Kesztler s Theory of the Harmony of Classical Music was first published by Károly Rozsnyai s publishing house in 1928 and later by the Hungarian State Music Publisher in 1953. It has been a sta...

The inspiration for writing this piece came from the talented young trombonist. The wind part is highly demanding: sure intonation ability is a prerequisite for performing it. Characteristic of this m...

This volume contains one-, two- and several-part excerpts, in chronological order, from the music of the Renaissance (Clemens non Papa, 1510/15-1555/56) to that of the 20th century (Shostakovich, 1906...