Par HENSELT ADOLPH. The composer and pedagogue Adolph von Henselt (1814?1889) can truly be considered one of the founding fathers of the Russian School of piano playing. He counted among his pupils Nicolai Sergeyvich Zverev, the teacher of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. Rachmaninoff considered Henselt?s Etudes the equal of those by Liszt and Chopin for their great beauty. Henselt?s music was well-know…

Par HOLLINS ALFRED. Hollins was a composer of organ music but also a virtuoso pianist and organist, despite being blind from birth. The piece is light in style, as its name suggests, but requires a fairly good manual technique and neat pedalling. A three-manual instrument is needed for really effective performance (a choir clarinet is necessary for the solo middle section). This is an attractive p…

Beginning Ukulele, Intermediate Ukulele, and Mastering Ukulele together in one complete, comprehensive instruction book dedicated to revealing the secrets of the ukulele! Anyone interested in playing ukulele can pick up this fun, well-paced method and get started right away. Learn everything you need to know, including chords, strumming, picking, basic music theory, and reading tablature (TAB) and…

Tonalité : F-Dur - Horn, Paul (Arr.) -. Par PLATTI GIOVANNI BENEDETTO. The first edition of a Missa in F by Giovanni Platti [ca. 1690–1763] is a rarity. Platti served at the Court of the Counts of Schönborn-Wiesentheid, and during his more than 40 years of service at the Court he worked for more than five masters and each of them knew how to make use of his musical abilities. Thus, in addition to …

Tonalité : F-Dur - Horn, Paul (Arr.) -. Par PLATTI GIOVANNI BENEDETTO. The first edition of a Missa in F by Giovanni Platti [ca. 1690–1763] is a rarity. Platti served at the Court of the Counts of Schönborn-Wiesentheid, and during his more than 40 years of service at the Court he worked for more than five masters and each of them knew how to make use of his musical abilities. Thus, in addition to …

Tonalité : F-Dur - Horn, Paul (Arr.) -. Par PLATTI GIOVANNI BENEDETTO. The first edition of a Missa in F by Giovanni Platti [ca. 1690–1763] is a rarity. Platti served at the Court of the Counts of Schönborn-Wiesentheid, and during his more than 40 years of service at the Court he worked for more than five masters and each of them knew how to make use of his musical abilities. Thus, in addition to …

Tonalité : F-Dur - Horn, Paul (Arr.) -. Par PLATTI GIOVANNI BENEDETTO. The first edition of a Missa in F by Giovanni Platti [ca. 1690–1763] is a rarity. Platti served at the Court of the Counts of Schönborn-Wiesentheid, and during his more than 40 years of service at the Court he worked for more than five masters and each of them knew how to make use of his musical abilities. Thus, in addition to …

by Hubay and Sarasate for Violin and Piano. Par SARASATE PABLO DE / HUBAY JENO. Georges Bizet\'s opera Carmen had its first performance in Paris in 1875. In the audience was the 17-year-old Hungarian violin virtuoso and budding composer Jenö Hubay. After the performance Hubay started writing his Carmen Fantasy from memory. The following season for his debut recital in Paris, he included his newly …

Par RACHMANINOV SERGEI / SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. One of the least known of the great Russian pianists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) was one of the most influential and progressive. As a concert promoter, he introduced the music of dozens of composers to the Russian public in the famous Siloti Concerts of 1903-1917, including Albeniz, Debussy, de Falla, Delius…

The Original First and Second Books including Dowland's Original Lute Tablature. Par DOWLAND JOHN. Considered the greatest lute virtuoso and composer of the English school in the early 17th Century, John Dowland (1563-1626) composed over 80 pieces of solo lute music. His peerless skills as an instrumentalist were hailed by poet Richard Barnfield, who referred to Dowland as one '. . . whose heav'nl…

Par SPOHR LOUIS. Piano Trio in B-flat major Op. 133 for Piano, Violin and Cello. One year after the completion of the 'Quartett-Konzert', Op. 131, Louis Spohr finished his fourth Piano Trio, Op. 133 (1846). The first Piano Trio was greeted by the musical world with 'uncommon joy'. Whilst Spohr often wrote a final movement in virtuoso form in order to secure an effective ending, the strength of the…

Instrument : piano (4 hands) Nombre de Pages : 36 Cornelius Gurlitt is one of the co-founders of 19th-century piano teaching. Going on from the method of Carl Czerny, his rich educational material is extremely topical even today. Der Anfänger is a collection of little pieces for four hands with an easy primo and a somewhat more difficult secondo part which are ideal for music lessons at elementar…