Dover Publications

This volume is reproduced directly from the famous Breitkopf & Hartel series published at Leipzig under the title Franz Schubert's Werke. Included are The Quintet in C Major (1828), the 15 quartets, a...

The definitive biography and critical study of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), this volume deals at length not only with with the composer's musical achievements but also with aspects of his life an...

Adagio from Concerto for Oboe * Affetuoso from Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 * Air on a G String * Aria from Goldberg Variations * Arioso in G Major * Bouree * Bouree from Overture in French Style * Bran...

Beethoven's bagatelles are short compositions written over the span of the composer's lifetime, from the early to the late periods. Ranging from easy to intermediate level, these popular pieces displa...

Edited by Alfred Dorffel and Wolfgang Graser. Breitkopf & Hortel complete works edition. Includes piano reduction of 'The Art Of The Fugue'.

Danish composer Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832) is best known for his Piano works. These 19 highly accessible sonatinas are staples of the keyboard repertoire. They offer intermediate-level pianists trai...

Edited by Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel. A highly interesting glimpse of Beethoven, as revealed in his own words. Over 300 reflections on the art of composing.

Edited by O. G. Sonneck. All his traits and characteristics as described by his friends and acquaintances.

This classic of music analysis by a noted musicologist offers revealing insights into Beethoven's personality and music. George Grove, the founding editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians,...

The 457 letters collected here are the most important letters in the spirit that was to shape and move a century. With explanatory notes by Dr. A. C. Kalisher.

Anton Felix Schindler. Schindler's intimate view of the composer - his music, how he was viewed by his contemporaries, his personality, his deafness - a standard reference work essential to the Beetho...

Selected Music For Solo Piano is a vast collection of pieces by English composer and violinist Frank Bridge. Bridge is mostly remembered for privately tutoring Benjamin Britten, who later championed h...

Mendelssohn's Lieder Ohne Worte, or ' Songs without Words , ' is among the most loved, most played collections in the Romantic Piano repertoire. Reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel ed...

This is the last of nearly 100 operettas created by French composer Jacques Offenbach, a native of Germany whose works were most prominent in the latter half of the nineteenth century. His three-act d...

Arthur Rackham. Sixty-four full colour illustrations from 'Seigfried & The Twilight Of The Gods' and 'The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie. '

Selected and edited by Hans Mersmann. Covers the composer's entire life, from his childhood travels to his last days. Includes several letters to and from his father.

Altogether, a sensitive and tasteful document. - Library Journal A series of themed essays rather than a traditional biography, this profile of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist is the work of...

In addition to his skills as a composer and performer, Liszt is famed for his genius in transcribing Orchestral works for Piano. Thanks to his efforts, pianists in the era before sound recordings coul...

Full piano arrangements, guitar chord symbols. Russian texts in Cyrillic and Latin-alphabet transliteration with English singing translations.

Sing-along favourites with piano arrangements, lyrics and guitar chord boxes. Compiled and edited by Theodore Raph, with editorial and background notes, this collection features some all time favourit...

Edward Bunting (1773 - 1843), the first systematic collector of Irish folksongs, was educated as an organ and piano player in Belfast. His life's work fell upon him at nineteen years old, when he was...

Unique and comprehensive, this fantasic collection features a tremendous variety of slow movements for keyboard players. Highlights of these evocative selections come from masterpieces including sona...

Forty songs as Foster originally composed them: 'Oh Susanna', 'Camptown Races', 'My Old Kentucky Home', 'Beautiful Dreamer' and more.

This collection includes 100 songs from the history of the labor movement, together with the stories of the genuine situations from which they sprang. Includes songs by Joe Hill, Ralph Chaplin, Joe Gl...

Photoplays', or silent movies, cried out for accompaniment, and a distinctive art form arose to fill the demand, combining cinema, music, and storytelling. This unique anthology features original shee...