Par SCHAUERTE-MAUBOUET HELGA. Translated into English by Carolyn Shuster Fournier and Connie Glessner Jehan ALAIN (1911-1940), internationally renowned French composer, was one of the most inspired creative personalities of the musical world in the interwar period. A cavalryman in World War II, he died in action during a reconnaissance mission near Saumur, France, on 20 June 1940.   Jehan Alain s…

Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. Amongst Rameau?s stage works which have come down to us in two main versions, such as ?Dardanus? (1739, 1744), ?Platée? (1745, 1749) and ?Zoroastre? (1749, 1756), none fell into oblivion for as long a period as ?Castor et Pollux?. After the work had been premiered in 1737, not until 1754 did Rameau decide to revise it. He asked his librettist ?Gentil-Bernard? to add an ac…

Par ARNOLD BRUCE. La capacité de lire, jouer et faire une convaincante, groove cohérent dans un rythme seizième note est un des défis plus redoutables face à un joueur de la section rythmique contemporaine. Ce livre tente de relever ce défi en fournissant des progressions de corde avec différents rythmiques syncopés. Pratique de ces exercices mènera à comprendre le style et la capacité d'exécuter …

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. After attending the premiere of Beethoven?s stately concerto for violin and orchestra Muzio Clementi approached the composer and requested the work in a transcription for piano and orchestra; his wish was fulfilled in 1807 providing us with not just an alternative version of the composition but also one with authentic cadenzas which Beethoven had not written for the Violi…

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. This collection appears as part of a series of popular works from the Bärenreiter catalogue celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publishing house. It presents two popular pieces from the 'Moments Musicaux' op. 94 as well as the much played Allegretto in C major and the Hungarian Melody in B minor. The four pieces are taken from the Bärenreiter Urtext editions of the 'Moment…

Par GOUNOD CHARLES. A lifelong resident of Paris, Gounod can hold a claim to being the most important figure in late 19th century French music on account of his influence on later composers. Studying at the Paris Conservatoire, Gounod left in 1839to travel through Europe, initially to Rome but then on through Austria and Germany. He was profoundly struck by the music he heard at the Sistine Chapel…

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 make Wagner's work more accessible for research and performance, but the edition only reached 10 volumes - some with grave shortcomings - and was discontinued after Balling's death in 1925. A further att…

Par ASTIE CHRISTOPHE. Peut-on apprendre le CLAVIER ARRANGEUR en se faisant plaisir dès les premières pages ' Jouer assez rapidement des mélodies agréables et connues ' Apprendre à lire les notes et découvrir naturellement le solfège sans s?en rendre compte ' Sans connaissance préalable du solfège, cette méthode en deux volumes aborde la découverte de la musique et le jeu au CLAVIER dès les premiè…

The Bohemian composer Jan Krtitel Vanhal/Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739-1813) settled in Vienna around 1763. There he wrote several concertos for various instruments, of which two for viola have survived. Both are evidently not original compositions, but arrangements by Vanhal of some of his own works, a common practice of that time. The Viola Concerto in C major is based on Vanhal's cello concerto i…

This Urtext edition contains rewarding discoveries for all lovers of Mozart. Mozart left behind a total of eight unfinished works for piano and violin, predominantly discontinued sonata movements. The music is so wonderful that we have published a separate volume with this group of works - all of which (aside from a fragment in the appendix to our edition) have been completed so that they can be p…

Guitar Solos By Howard Alden From The Film Sweet And Lowdown. Par HOWARD ALDEN. Sweet and Lowdown, Woody Allen's film from 1999, starred Sean Penn as the legendary, but fictitious jazz guitarist of the '30s, Emmett Ray. Emmett considered himself to be the second greatest jazz guitarist in the world next to Django Reinhardt. The versatile Howard Alden played all of the solo acoustic guitar parts fo…

Par PEPIN CAMILLE. Ce nonette s'inspire de la série Énergie blanche de Fabienne Verdier. Sur le fond lisse et bleu nuit des toiles viennent contraster des traits de peinture blanche, comme une force opposée. Au fil des tableaux, cette énergie évolue en ondulations nocturnes fluides ou rugueuses, en scintillements légers, en nuages vaporeux ou encore en crépitements. Les toiles semblent emplies de …

30 intermediate recital pieces for violin and piano. Par . Following the successful first volume, Piccolo Paganini Vol. 2 contains 30 original intermediate-level pieces for violin and piano. Violin experts Christiane Schmidt and Gudrun Jeggle focus on musically sophisticated and rarely-heard concert pieces by composers ranging from Handel and Elgar to Pauline Viardot García and Grazyna Bacewicz. T…