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Bach's towering musical achievement was to present in its final shape, the 'fabric of polyhony' (Grove Dictionary). This is no more axiomatic than in his Preludes and Fugues for Organ. Regarded as the...

Jan Sweelinck (1562-1621) was among the most famous organists of seventeenth century Europe and an influential composer in the Dutch and North German tradition. Bridging both Renaissance and Baroque s...

Although Franck's output for the organ was small, it was influential. This volume contains his best-known works for organ, including Six Pieces (Liszt ranked them with the masterpieces of Bach), Trois...

Pachelbel was one of the great organ masters of the generation before J. S. Bach. Unsurprisingly, interest in his music has remained constant and today he is widely considered one of the greatest and,...

This convenient playing and study edition marks the first single-volume publication of five great staples of the orchestral repertoire: Jubilee Overture, overture to the play Preciosa, and overtures t...

The 'Coriolanus', 'Fidelio', 'Egmont' and three 'Leonore' overtures. Republication of the Breitkopf and Hartel edition.

Includes overtures to 'The Flying Dutchman', 'Rienzi', 'Tannhauser', preludes To Acts I And III of 'Lohengrin' and Act I of 'The Meistersingers'.

This compilation of easy-to-play ragtime favourites features 24 rollicking melodies by 'The Big Three' of ragtime - Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb - plus pieces by Eubie Blake, Tom Turpin,...

This volume brings together in one superbly produced playing edition all 38 of Scott Joplin's piano rags, including his six collaborations. This folio will provide pianists everywhere with unlimited j...

All 23 string quartets, plus the alternate slow movement to K. 156. Breitkopf & Hortel ed.

Much esteemed for its charm and purity, Dvorak's chamber music is considered among his best work, and the five string quartets in this volume rank among his finest chamber compositions. Reproduced dir...

A reproduction of the Breitkopf and Hartel edition. One of Mozart's greatest, most enduring choral works.

New edition by Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones. 'The Pirates of Penzance' remains one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most beloved and most frequently performed works. Brilliantly tuneful and sparkl...

G F Handel (1685-1759) was a German-born British composer and organist who spent his life working in London. He is credited with popularising opera in Britain, both importing Italian works, and compos...

Featuring the same technical brilliance, innovation, and imagination which distinguished the great piano pieces Transcendental Etudes and Hungarian Rhapsodies, these two works are staples in the reper...

Full score edition of two of Saint-Saens most popular piano concertos.

The tragic tale of brothers who are in love with the same mysterious woman, Debussy's only opera is a perfect marriage of music and verse. The culmination of an eight-year effort on the part of the co...

Along with Swan Lake, The Nutcracker represents one of Tchaikovsky's most popular and most-performed works. Based on E. T. A. Hoffman's The Nutcracker And The Mouse King, the piece was commissioned in...

Written between 1905 and 1912, this evocative orchestral triptych expresses the national characters of three countries. Iberia is scored with Spanish castanets and tambourines. It is accompanied by Gi...

The magical tale of the Swan-Knight in a comprehensive full instrumental and vocal score Breitkopf & Hortel edition.

The second opera in Richard Wagner's mighty The Ring cycle, Die Walkure remains among the most popular and frequently performed of his works. It is a masterful epic, with themes and motifs that combin...

Following the universal success of his dance music, Johann Strauss turned his attention to operetta. Die Fledermaus was one of his finest efforts, in which he created a sparkling masterpiece that prem...

The concepts of theorist Heinrich Schenker offer a unique method of structural analysis that differentiates between harmonic and contrapuntal functions of chords, emphasizing the relative significance...

A masterful and original classical composer as well as a renowned composer of film scores, Ernst Toch (1887-1964) made a permanent contribution to music in this important and widely praised book. Base...

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. The fundamental principles of modern orchestration, the study of tonal resonance and orchestral combination. Uses musical examples from his own works.