Schott Musik

Composed in 1976, the piano work 'Litaniae alla cinque' of the composer from Cologne refers to the famous fifth chapter of the Epistle of James in which the vanity of riches is described in drastic wo...

Piano to go est idéal pour ceux et celles qui n'ont pas le temps de jouer du piano, qui trouvent tout juste le temps d'aller se chercher un café et qui, tant qu'il est encore trop chaud - deux ou troi...

Wer kennt es nicht, das berühmte Mainzer Fastnachtslied Heile, heile Gänsje. Weit über die Fastnachtsthematik hinaus wurde es zum Trost spendenden Lied, das zu allen möglichen Anlässen gesungen wird....

Arrangements for the piano, transcriptions and opera paraphrases take up a large part in Franz Liszt's complete œuvre. He even arranged scenes from the music dramas of Richard Wagner. The transcriptio...

Jean-Baptiste Duvernois (1800-1880 Paris) était un pianiste et compositeur français, professeur au Conservatoire de Paris. Son œuvre complète comprend plus de 300 compositions. On connait avant tout s...

Le titre peut se lire comme une indication de tonalité ou de genre mais aussi comme une allusion à une humeur légèrement dépressive. La sonate de Mozart en la mineur, qui aurait pu être créée dans la...

In the last scene of Wagner's opera 'The Valkyrie', Wotan, the father of the gods, punishes his daughter Brünnhilde for her disobedience. He wants to curse her to a deep sleep for her to be helplessly...

The music of small forms was to become the focus of the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). In 1874, after many years spent in the 'provinces', the teacher of Camille Saint-Saëns took the posit...

This is a highly virtuosic piano piece with alternating metres and miniature rhythmic elements which are abstract representations of traditional Turkish rhythms.

Depuis le début du XIXe siècle, l'Étude pour piano se développait en tant que pièce de travail relevant d'un genre spécifique. Ce sont avant tout les Études de Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt et Alexandr...

Dances of Our Time is a unique collection of new solo piano music featuring a kaleidoscopic array of international piano repertoire of the present day. Prominent composers from 26 countries have contr...

The anthology 'Klangspuren' by Barbara Heller contains 76 works for piano which have been written for the Barbara Heller Piano Competition. Each title has its own personal message: Music can show an i...

Die Sammlung Klangspuren von Barbara Heller umfasst 76 Klavierwerke, die für den Barbara Heller-Klavierwettbewerb entstanden sind. Jeder Titel hat seine persönliche Aussage: Die Musik kann ein Bild au...

Maurice Béjart's great admiration for the films of Federico Fellini and their accompanying music prompted the French choreographer to seek the opportunity to collaborate with composer Nino Rota who re...

PianoMotions is the new virtuoso series for advanced pianists looking for a kick concertante. Matthias Dobler's arrangements make use of the entire range of the piano and captivate with a powerful exp...

Like Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, 'Two Sad Poems' are dedicated to 'the memory of an angel': in this case to the highly gifted violist Helena Maria Maas who died in 1980 at a very early age. To expre...

Naji Hakim (*1955), French composer of Lebanese descent, not only writes pieces for his principal instrument, the organ; even his piano works are characterized by many different sources, his major sou...

The Sonata is one of Erkin's works which the casual listener may fail to attribute to a particular geography at a first hearing. He will however become absorbed by a unique sense of identity, surprisi...

The 'Preludio' presents soft melodies, colourful harmonies and delicate passages while the 'Fuga' captivates both the performer and the audience with its passionate samba-rumba style and its nods to t...