Schott Musik

This book contains a wealth of material for study and practice, including technique exercises, echo exercises, dialogue exercises, songs with sections to complete, well-known pieces to play, improvisa...

The Workbook contains exercises and games for doing at home and during the music lesson. It is directly inte-grated with the work in the Student's Book; the intent is that the two books are used toget...

Easy settings for two soprano recorders, one alto recorder and percussion. This is the first of three short volumes containing old Christmas songs from Germany and other European countries. They can e...

European Christmas Carols with suggestions for festive settings. This collection meets the demand for dance pieces in class teaching which are not too ambitious but which are of good quality. The coll...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The documentary volumes of the Richard Wagner Complete Edition are no mere addition to the sheet music editions. Wagner's work on his compositions did not end with the completion of the scores. He rat...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

Rejoicing silently and in a subdued manner, 'Missa paschalis', with its lyric melody and pleasantly austere sonority, tells of the topic of every celebration of Mass: of the hope of resurrection.Thank...

Rejoicing silently and in a subdued manner, 'Missa paschalis', with its lyric melody and pleasantly austere sonority, tells of the topic of every celebration of Mass: of the hope of resurrection.Thank...

The chiaroscuro-technique developed by painters of the Italian renaissance served to intensify contrasts and effects of optical depth. In Klar/Obskur, I tried to transfer the general idea of this tech...

entschlackt [Piece in Two Parts] resulted from an attempt to write music that is clear, precise and concentrated without being superficially 'simple'. The 'purged' or 'cleansed' character of the piece...

One of the most bodacious episodes in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic tells how Joukahainen challenges the old, wise singer Vainamoinen to a competition, during which Vainamoinen sings him up...

'Landscape With Deserted House' is a piece of a dark and very individual character, almost a 'gothic piece'. The topos of the deserted house comes from the literature of Victorian England, but also po...

The cycle of 27 lithographs on the Apocalypse of St. John created by Max Beckmann in his Dutch exile in 1941 inspired Benjamin Schweitzer to compose 27 musical 'sheets' as well. 'The pictures are fill...

Nausea (lat., seasickness, disgust) - Nenia (greek/lat., folksong, elegy, magical song): Two similar sounding terms, which offer, based on their ambiguity, lots of space to musical connotations. These...

Heinrich Poos´ Ein Stundenbuch is a contribution to the Luther Year 2017. Poos sets relevant passages from the Bible to music, such as Die Seligpreisungen for choir (SSAATTBB), positive organ, violonc...

The four demanding songs of different character for countertenor with baritone tessitura and natural horn in F and E flat are based on the collection of poems 'Briensertiitsch Va?a?rsa' by the Swiss w...

Dans les œuvres de Holliger, le terme concis de 'transcriptions' cache des versions complexes de sources énigmatiques et les plus subtiles diversifications sonores avec les possibilités techniques du...

Heinz Holliger a composé cette œuvre en trois mouvements en janvier 2016 comme musique funèbre pour le légendaire flûtiste Aurèle Nicolet, décédé peu de temps avant. Le mouvement central Sons d'or pou...

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Ce recueil contient des vœux d'anniversaire musicaux pour des compositeurs et des musiciens avec qui Heinz Holliger entretient une amitié étroite. Ces pièces très différentes ont été composées en l'es...