Martin Schneider

Like so many of his compatriots, the Czech-born Vaclav Pichl spent much of his working life in Vienna (where the Empress Maria Theresa, preferred him to Mozart), but with a period working for Dittersd...

This second volume in the series of his Op. 13 quartets exploits each instrument equally - even the viola is allocated elaborate solo passages - and offers an attractive alternative (as Haydn realised...

Umfangreiche Textsammlung zu Klavierdidaktik, Werkgeschichte und Interpretation Die European Piano Teachers Association Österreich (EPTA) veröffentlicht zum dreißigjährigen Bestehen 30 ältere bzw. neu...

Muzio Clementi, who was rather more magnanimous in his praise of Mozart than Mozart was of him - 'Until then I had never heard anyone perform with such grace and elegance' - towards the end of his lif...

From the start, the size and nature of the scoring of Mozart's Serenade for 12 Winds and Contrabass K. 361 (conventionally called either Serenade for 13 Winds or Gran Partita) and the unusual length o...

Includes two 'mystery' pieces - the last discovery this Mozart year! In the short period between Mozart's death and the end of the 18th century, it was quickly discovered that he had not left enough s...

Anton Eberl, nine years younger than Mozart, also began life as a prodigy, and became a friend of Mozart and probably also a pupil; his compositions show such an acquaintance with Mozart's style that...

The Grande Sonate Charactéristique in F minor was published between Eberl's visits to Russia, and dedicated to Haydn, possibly in gratitude for his reported praise of Eberl's opera Die Königin der sch...

Der Berichtsband der Arbeitstagung 'Improvisation - Performance - Szene' hat die Erweiterung der Musik in die Bereiche der bildenden und darstellenden Künste zum Thema. Erörtert werden die Phänomene D...

Can You Stop The Rain, written by John Bettis and Walter Afanasieff, as performed by Peabo Bryson, arranged by Dan Coates for voice and easy piano with guitar chords.

As the opening song in this landmark musical by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, the stage is set. Curly is brimming with optimism and the music of Rogers' captures this emotion perfectly. This n...