Par GLUCK CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD. Gluck Iphigénie en Aulide (Vocal Score) Tragedy - Opera in three acts Iphigénie en Aulide is the first of six operas that Gluck composed for the Académie Royale de Musique. In keeping with his plans for operatic reform, he sought to create noble, expressive and natural melodies that did justice to every language and every national spirit while eliminating the “ridic…

Arrangeur: Jonathan del Mar. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. In late 1821 Beethoven began work on his final piano sonata op. 111 which has been considered a towering masterwork ever since its publication. Thomas Mann gave it a literary monument in his novel 'Doctor Faustus' in whose musical-theoretical digressions the main motif of the 'Arietta' is set to the syllables 'Wiesengrund', the middle name of …

Par WECKMAN MATHIAS. Matthias Weckesser, né en Niederdorla près de Mühlhausen (Thuringe) en 1616 et décédé à Hambourg en 1674, a été formé en tant que musicien par Heinrich Schutz à Dresde, entre autres. Il a travaillé comme organiste à Dresde (église du château) et Hambourg (Saint-James). Il est particulièrement pour l'orgue Jacobson qu'il a écrit ses oeuvres pour orgue élaborer et virtuose. Notr…

Kantate zum Weihnachtsfest. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The Christmas cantata Gloria in excelsis Deo BWV 191, which has always presented researchers with many challenging problems, is among the few works to Latin words set by Johann Sebastian Bach. It consists of three sections - a finely-woven duet flanked by two festive choral movements - which we are to encounter again almost note for note in th…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach was a forceful, original composer, whose legacy influenced almost all western music, and he was also a dedicated student of the keyboard. Always exploring new ways to share his knowledge of the instrument, and Bach worked toensure that the novice keyboardist would use the proper technique. This is a collection of some of the simpler, more accessible pieces that help…

The first great orchestral psalmMendelssohn's first great orchestral psalm took almost six years to complete, from the initial sketches and the first version of 1830 to the final version of 1835. Its premiere which took place at the Leipzig Gewandhaus did not take place until 1838.Unlike his other orchestral psalms, Mendelssohn took the Latin words from the Vulgate as his principal text which stem…

Par REINECKE CARL HEINRICH CARSTEN. Le présent volume contient une sélection d'oeuvres pour piano, avec des pièces pour enfants et des sonates modérément difficiles. Le style de Reinecke, qui d'un point de vue esthétique se classe dans le conservatisme, s'inspire des modèles classiques viennois, comme Haydn et Mozart. Parmi ses élèves, on compte Max Bruch, Edvard Grieg et Leoš Janácek. Malgré ses…

Complete lyrics, chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams for 56 super Disney songs, all in a convenient 6 inch. x 9 inch. collection! This second edition has been updated to include songs from recent Disney hits like Mary Poppins Returns, Coco, Moana, and more! Includes: The Bare Necessities - Be Our Guest - Beauty and the Beast - Can You Feel the Love Tonight - Chim Chim Cher-ee - Colors of the W…

With his sonatas op. 31 composed in 1802 Beethoven for the last time grouped together piano sonatas under one opus number. The centrepiece of the collection is undoubtedly the dramatic Sonata in D minor nicknamed 'Tempest' which already fascinated his contemporaries. According to Anton Schindler, who asked the composer about the 'key' to this work as well as to the sonata op. 57 ('Appassionata'), …

Konzertstücke, Variationen. Par WEBER CARL MARIA VON. Carl Maria von Weber est connu avant tout comme un grand maître de l’opéra romantique. Pourtant, c’était initialement un pianiste virtuose auteur d’un nombre considérable d’oeuvres de concert pour son instrument. Outre les quatre sonates pour piano, la sélection présentée ici comprend cinq grandes oeuvres de concert brillantes ainsi que deux de…

Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as 'a ?symphony for chorus and orchestra?? First three symphonic movements, to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the words from the Psalms, and indeed all pieces, vocal and instrumental, are composed in the words ?Everything which has breath, Praise the Lord?; one understands by this th…

Leichte Vortragsstucke. To every pupil, the first concert is a special experience. The period of intensive preparation, the mixture of trepidation and joyful anticipation, the concentration during the performance, the applause of the audience and the pride after the successful performance. Such impressions will all stick in the pupil's mind and quite often influence his or her entire future develo…

In Full Score. . Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Outstanding in their variety and degree of innovation, Mozart's piano concertos reflect his genius as a composer and demonstrate just why he has remained so popular. The first of the works was precociously written in 1767, when he was merely 11 years old, and yet the pieces all possess his characteristic keyboard mastery, experimentation with texture a…

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. The complete vocal score with Piano accompaniment for Ralph Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony. Completed in 1909, it is a vast work inspired by, and based on, four poems by Walt Whitman that Williams fashioned into a vast score containing some of his finest choral writing and a highlight of its era. It is non-ecclesiastical work and has a humanist, agnostic viewpoint wit…