Based on a story by Alarcón, this staple of both the ballet and orchestral repertoires is full of wit and vitality, enhanced with the flavor of Andalu......
Beginning pianists will love playing these beloved favorites in musically attractive, easy arrangements: "Jingle Bells," "Deck the Halls," "Joy to the......
From his earliest years Mozart played piano duets with his sister, and as his musical career progressed he created a small repertoire of masterly four......
Composed in 1906-8 to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Elektra scandalized audiences of the day with its horrifie retelling of the Greek story and......
All 10 of Scriabin's sonatas, reprinted from an authoritative early Russian edition, abundantly displaying his technical virtuosity and dazzling emoti......
The requiem--the Roman Catholic mass for the dead--is one of those texts that has appealed to countless composers. You want bombast? You got bombast. ......
Although composer Amy Beach (1867-1944) was precociously talented as a pianist (she made her professional debut at 16), she was largely self-taught as......
Among the most popular and important modern British composers, Gustav Holst (1874-1934) was a true eccentric, given to odd enthusiasms and mystical mu......
Ravel originally conceived of his "choreographic poem" La Valse (The Waltz) as a tribute to Johann Strauss and "a sort of apotheosis of the Viennese w......
In the summer of 1780, Mozart received a commission from Munich to write an opera seria-a form of opera that catered to 18th-eentury tastes for storie......
In the opinion of many critics, Hugo Wolf（1860-1903）brought the 19th-century German lied to its highest development. His more than 300 songs exhib......
Fine edition contains all 8 piano trios, the two piano quartets and the piano quintet, reprinted from the definitive Breitkopf & Härtel editions.......
Study the composer's musical development and growing mastery of orchestration in authoritative editions of three early symphonies: "Winter Daydreams,"......
While Faure wrote a relatively small number of chamber music compositions, they have achieved great popularity and are generally considered among his ......
Beethoven's symphonies are among his greatest works--in the opinion of many, the greatest orchestral compositions in the history of music. Perfect in ......
Born in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti strongly influenced subsequent trends in keyboard music through his uniquely elegan......
Six enduring masterpieces, composed between 1791 and 1795, in which Haydn shaped the early form of the symphony and set the standard for later compose......
This volume contains two of Beethoven's most loved and widely performed pianoconcertos, printed in the traditional format for two pianos: Piano I is t......
Stirring symphony, widely regarded as Saint-Saëns' major orchestral work, is one of the few to incorporate the organ as featured instrument. It b......
A prolific composer and virtuoso pianist, Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was the most lionized musical personality of his time. His compositions for solo pia......
