Well Tempered Press - LudwigMasters

Das erste "Kinder-Klavier-Album" (Op. 123) wurde 1906 geschrieben, die zweite Serie (Op. 126) ein Jahr später. Es enthält jeweils 12 harmonisch interessante Stücke, die für Kinder geschrieben wurden....

Die vieraktige Oper ADRIANA LECOUVREUR wurde von Francesco Cilea (1866-1950) komponiert und am 6. November 1902 am Teatro Lirico in Mailand mit Angelica Pandolfini in der Titelrolle und Enrico Caruso...

Jacques Féréol Mazas' Etudes Op. 36 for violin were first published in 1843 by Simrock. This publication is the later transcription (c. 1880) of the etudes for viola by Ludwig Pagels. These advanced s...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) set four poems from George Herbert's (1593-1633) collection The Temple: Sacred Poems in 1911 to music for solo baritone in a work titled Five Mystical Songs. The sol...

The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) was written by Giocchino Rossini (1792-1868) in 1816. The two-act comic opera is considered one of the greatest opera buffas ever written, and it remain...

This collection of twelve songs by the brilliant 19th century composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) include the original language (German or Italian for each) with English translations by Theodore Baker an...

Gianni Schicchi is a one-act comic opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). The final and most popular opera in a trio known as Il trittico (The Triptych), each one dealing with the concealment of a deat...

The operetta Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) was written in 1905 by Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár (1870-1948), with a libretto by Viktor Léon and Leo Stein. The story tells of a rich widow...

George Thompson, ein Sammler von Volksliedern, beauftragte Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) mit der Bearbeitung einer Auswahl der von ihm gesammelten Lieder. Im Jahr 1814 wurden sie erstmals in einem...

Das zwischen 1865 und 1868 geschriebene EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM op. 45 war das längste Werk von Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Die siebensätzige Messe vertont Martin Luthers Übersetzung eines biblischen T...

This two-volume edition of J.S. Bach's WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, regarded as one of the most important works in the history of classical music, has been edited by Hans Bischoff, with Bischoff's notes tra...

This two-volume edition of J.S. Bach's WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, regarded as one of the most important works in the history of classical music, has been edited by Hans Bischoff, with Bischoff's notes tra...

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) completed his Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28, in 1908, and it is the first of three "Dresden pieces," the others being his Symphony No. 2 and part of an opera. A...

Also referred to as "Capriccio," Joseph Haydn's FANTASIA IN C Major, Hob. XVII:4 is based on the Austrian folk song "Do Bäuren hat d'Katz valor'n" ("The farmer's wife has lost her cat"). About the pie...

Inspired by Phillip Emanuel Bach's 1753 "Versuch ueber die wahre Art das Klavier zu spielen" (Treatise on the correct manner of playing the Clavier), Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750-1813), composer and Dire...

This collection of 10 short pieces by Sergei Prokofjew ranges in style and difficulty and can be performed in its entirety or individually.

Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773) verbrachte seine Karriere am Hof Friedrichs des Großen und arbeitete als Komponist, Flötist und Flötenbauer. Obwohl er Hunderte von Flötensonaten und -konzerten kompo...

Im Jahr 1831 vollendete Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) eine weltliche Kantate auf der Grundlage des Goethe-Gedichts DIE ERSTE WALPURGISNACHT. Das Gedicht erzählt von der ersten Maifeier, die von den ba...

These THREE MOTETS by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1636-1704) are each for chorus and various instrument accompaniments. 1. Serve bone (Women's Chorus and Organ), 2. Pulchra Es (Women's Chorus and Organ)...

Ludwig van Beethovens (1770-1827) Chorsinfonie, die Sinfonie Nr. 9 in d-Moll, op. 125, entstand zwischen 1822 und 1824 und ist die letzte vollendete Sinfonie des Komponisten. Sie wird von vielen als B...

Ludwig van Beethovens (1770-1827) Chorsinfonie, die Sinfonie Nr. 9 in d-Moll, op. 125, entstand zwischen 1822 und 1824 und ist die letzte vollendete Sinfonie des Komponisten. Sie wird von vielen als B...

When Karl Traugott Queisser, trombonist in the Gewandhaus Orchestra, asked Felix Mendelssohn to compose a trombone concerto for him, the composer declined due to time restraints. The task went to the...

This collection of six suites for two violins and basso continuo (keyboard and violoncello) were written as chamber dinner or dance music. Editor Fritz Zobeley has updated these works to notate common...

This collection of six suites for two violins and basso continuo (keyboard and violoncello) were written as chamber dinner or dance music. Editor Fritz Zobeley has updated these works to notate common...

This collection of six suites for two violins and basso continuo (keyboard and violoncello) were written as chamber dinner or dance music. Editor Fritz Zobeley has updated these works to notate common...