To this day, Pierre Rode's “Caprices” are a milestone in every violinist's education conservatory level. This Urtext edition offers detailed text regarding source material and historical
In contrast to the first cello sonata (HN 1357) composed four years earlier, this substantially more catchy and playful second sonata enjoyed great success with audiences and critics right from the start.
Johannes Brahms' late chamber works are surely among the most splendid music ever written for the clarinet. In the last years of his life, Brahms seems to have become weary of composing - but fortunately
"Favorite dish in exchange for favorite music" - this perfectly summarizes the genesis of the Konzertstucke. When the clarinettist Heinrich Joseph Baermann and his son Carl, who also played the
With this one-movement Concertino, Oskar Rieding turns to already advanced students of the violin. Aside from playing in third position, it also requires a considerable degree of dexterity and mastery of
Edited by Dominik Rahmer. For viola & piano. Urtext Edition. Preface in Ger., Fr. and Eng. Includes critical
The Viennese Jakob Dont is considered one of the most important violin pedagogues of the nineteenth century and wrote numerous study pieces that are indispensable classics of the pedagogical literature for
With his first horn concerto, the merely eighteen-year-old Richard Strauss succeeded in producing a captivating masterstroke. To this day, the concerto is beloved throughout the world (not only) by horn
After the great success of his Elegie, Faure's publisher Hamelle urged him to write another, similarly effective piece for cello and piano. Papillon was probably already composed in 1884,
The Romance for a melodic instrument and piano was a very popular genre in French salon music of the nineteenth century. Saint-Saens also wrote several such pieces for violin, cello, and horn. His only
Though more demanding than some of Pleyel's instrumental works, these six two-movement compositions bring together great melodic richness and eclectic forms in their colorful mixture of sonata movements,
Edited by Peter Jost. Fingering of the piano part by Klaus Schilde. With supplementary violin part marked by Yehudi Menuhin, supplemented by Daniel Hope. For violin & piano. Revised, Urtext
Edited by Ulrich Kraemer. For strings. Urtext Edition. Preface in Ger., Fr. and Eng. Includes critical commentary. Set of parts. Study score available.
Edited by Peter Jost. For string quartet. Urtext Edition, based on the first edition, published by Simrock in 1896. Preface in Ger., Fr. and Eng. Includes critical notes. Set of parts.
Completed in 1888, this sonata was the culmination of several years of work and Brahms' final contribution to the genre. It is his only one in a minor key and stands in stark contrast to its two
Brahms composed a whole series of chamber music works, including his Second Violin Sonata in A Major, during a summer visit to Thun in Switzerland in 1886. This wonderfully lyrical work is one of his most
Brahms early on engaged with the violin sonata form. As early as 1853 he wrote a sonata in A minor, which - like so many other youthful works of this self-critical composer - no longer survives. Thus the