Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók?s six string quartets, composed between 1908 and 1940, are 20th-century milestones of the genre. His First String Quartet is closely linked to his unhappy love for the violinist Stefi Geyer, to whom he sent the initial measures of its first movement in early 1908 with the remark: ?My song of death?. When he completed all three movements of the work a year later, he had…

Par BALAZS ARPAD. Árpád Balázs (*1937) composed the first version of the work between 1994 and 1996 for tárogató and concert band. Since this traditional Hungarian instrument is rarely found in ensembles abroad, a soprano saxophone can serve as an alternative solo instrument. The composer uses melodies from the early 18th century, from the age of Rákóczi's war of independence. An ambitious framewo…

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók' s 'Romanian Christmas Songs' are based on folk melodies that originated in a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, and which he felt gave ' the impression of a fiery, war-like type of song, rather than a pious and religious one”. Nevertheless, he chose 20 melodies from this collection of ' colinde” and published them under the title of ' Christmas Songs”. In the first …

?evcík's oeuvre covers every area of violin technique, from the elementary level to special exercises on individual technical problems all the way to analytical studies of the best-known violin concertos. One of his most important pedagogical works is his opus 8, written between 1892 and 1895.This volume of exercises is devoted to changes of position and preparatory studies for scales over three o…

?evcík's complete works cover every area of violin technique, from the elementary level and special exercises on individual technical problems all the way to analytical studies of the standard violin concertos.His 'Preparatory Trill Studies? deal with the placement of the fingers, their pressure on the strings and their action on the fingerboard in elementary positions, proceeding from slow moveme…

Dvorák n'avait que vingt ans quand il écrivit son Quatuor à cordes n o 1 en la majeur, op. 2 (1862). Le travail est considéré comme le deuxième compositeur travail le plus important, après le Quintette à cordes en la mineur op. 1.Dvorák ne sont pas retournés au travail sur op. 2 jusqu'à 1887, quand il a été la révision de ses premières oeuvres. Il a supprimé les sections de ce quatuor substantiell…

En 1887, Antonín Dvorák deux terzettos pour deux violons et alto en succession rapide sous forme de compositions pour les amateurs occasionnels. Un peu plus tard, Dvorák a organisé la deuxième terzetto que quatre pièces pour violon et piano avec le titre 'Romantic Pieces', op. 75. Les deux oeuvres, qui est le premier 'Terzetto en ut majeur' et 'Pièces romantiques', ont été publiés en mai 1887 par …

Altsaxophon. Hören, lesen & spielen ist die bewährte Bläserschule für dreizehn verschiedene Instrumente, die im Einzel- oder Gruppenunterricht eingesetzt werden kann. Sie ist gemäß den aktuellen Erkenntnissen und Ansprüchen der Musikerziehung konzipiert. Die perfekte Ergänzung zur Methode in drei Bänden bilden diverse Bücher mit Spielliteratur. Sie sind genau auf den Lernfortschritt in Hören, lese…

Serie Ii. Par BARTOK BELA. What distinguishes Béla Bartók from most of his European contemporaries is his lifelong dedication to folk music. He began to look into Hungarian peasant music out of musical interest only, but gradually extended his research to the neighbouring countries' folk music to study relatedness and differences, origins and influences. Bartók started to collect Romanian folk tun…

Par SCARLATTI / GILBERT. Italian composer, Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is well-known for his Keyboard compositions. His 555 Keyboard Sonatas remain ever popular to this day, and it is for this reason that this first volume is indispensable to performers of the genre. Originally composed for the Harpsichord, Organ or early Pianoforte, the Sonatas display the riveting use of discords and unconven…

Par BARTOK BELA. Composed in 1910/11, Bartók's Allegro barbaro is one of his best-known and most popular works for piano. The composer himself enjoyed performing it in concerts, and recorded it several times. The recording from 1929, which he referred to as the 'authentic recording”, contains very interesting divergences from the printed version as far as articulation, tempo and even the number of…

Par LEHRMUTH REINHOLD. Die Musenküsse für Musikusse sind 33 kleine Kompositionen für Gitarre aus der Feder von Reinhold Lemuth. Die stilistische Bandbreite reicht von klassisch bis Latin und der Schwierigkeitsgrad von leicht bis circa Grad 4, so dass sich Gitarrenschüler über mehrere Jahre hinweg 'von der Muse küssen' lassen können. Illustrationen des Künstlers Wolfgang Steinmeyer werten dieses Bu…

Par BARTOK BELA. Le quatuor le plus long et le plus complexe des six quatuors à cordes de Bartók fut composé durant l’été 1934 en réponse à une commande bien dotée de la prestigieuse Elisabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation à Washington. Bartók l’écrivit en quelques semaines, à Budapest. Le manuscrit autographe fortement remanié nous montre l’intensité du travail nécessaire à l’élaboration de cette f…

Arrangeur: Hartmut Schick. Par DVORAK ANTONIN. When Antonín Dvorák started composing his String Quartet No. 10 in late 1878, none of his quartets had yet been performed. However this new work, deliberately cast in the 'Slavonic” style, quickly achieved international renown and has remained among one of the most popular string quartets by Dvorák. The authoritative Dvorák scholar Hartmut Schick has…