Schott Musik

Legendary violinist and composer of famous tunes such as Liebesleid/Liebesfreud or Schön Rosmarin, Fritz Kreisler, has rendered homage to Robert Schumann with two arrangements. Besides an arrangement...

Samuel Dushkin a écrit de nombreuses transcriptions pour violon de mélodies connues et populaires de son temps, bien sûr d'oeuvres de son ami Stravinsky, mais aussi de celles d'autres compositeurs tel...

Angel G. Villoldo (1861-1919) is considered one of the pioneers of Argentine tango. His Tango criollo El choclo (The Corncob), which appeared in Buenos Aires in 1903, is one of the earliest compositio...

He gave a present to me and my little Marie of a delightful lullaby composed that Christmas afternoon, Clara Schumann noted in the family diary they shared. This Slumer Song of 1841 Robert Schumann la...

István Szelényi (1904-1972), a student of Kodály, taught composition at the Budapest conservatory. Apart from chamber music and piano pieces he composed mainly educational material, e.g. for youth orc...

Originally composed for piano solo, Rubinstein's 'Melody' Op. 3/1 is the best-known work written by the Russian composer. Thanks to the simple, yet tender melody and its expressive harmony, the name o...

The reputation of the Bohemian composer Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900) has always been somewhat overshadowed by that of Bedrich Smetana and Antonín Dvorák. This is a pity, for Fibich, though he died young,...

Composée en 1886, l'étude en trémolo Recuerdos de la Alhambra est sans doute la pièce la plus connue de Tárrega. Elle évoque les souvenirs de la citadelle mauresque située sur une colline de Grenade e...

Le compositeur et pianiste américain Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) est pratiquement inconnu chez nous, même si son art a pris racine ici : il reçut sa formation pianistique à Paris, Stuttgart, Wiesbade...