Classical Opera category: 1804 books

Major compositions from period 1838-53: Humoreske, Novelletten, Sonate No. 2, 43 Clavierstücke für die Jugend, and 6 other works. Reprinted from the Breitkopf and Härtel edition.

Features 51 best-loved compositions, reproduced directly from the authoritative Kistner edition edited by Carl Mikuli, a pupil of Chopin. Editor's Foreword, 1879.

Early in his career, Bach began to transcribe for the keyboard a number of concertos for violin, oboe, and other instruments by such baroque masters as Vivaldi and Telemann. His purpose: to study and explore the works of other composers as well as to supply good clavier music for his own performances. This...

Volume 2 includes Sonatas Op. 105 and 106; Complete Songs without Words, more.

(Schirmer Performance Editions). Included in this volume are seven well-known sonatinas appropriate for intermediate level pianists with audio recordings. Contents: Sonatina in C Major, Op. 20, No. 1 * Sonatina in G Major, Op. 20, No. 2 * Sonatina in F Major, Op. 20, No. 3 * Sonatina in C Major, Op....

The life and music of Richard Strauss (1864-1949) span what was arguably the most turbulent period in human history, encompassing the Franco-Prussian War, the unification of Germany, and two world wars. He was one of the very last composers to have started his career in service to the old European...

Finest single-volume edition includes authoritative scores of The Seasons, Op. 37; Album for the Young, Op. 39; 10 Characteristic Pieces, Op. 72; Dumka, Op. 59; Valse sentimentale, Op. 51, No. 6; 4 Pieces, Op. 40; Theme and Variations, Op. 19, No. 6; plus 5 early pieces.

Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love is a bold book which argues that Wagner's music dramas cannot be understood if treated separately from his essays, his life, the intellectual and artistic climate of his day, and the broader history of Germany. Wagner attempts a range of reconciliations that...

Early seventeenth-century Italy saw a revolution in instrumental music. Large, varied, and experimental, the new instrumental repertoire was crucial for the Western tradition—but until now, the impulses that gave rise to it had yet to be fully explored. Curious and Modern Inventions offers fresh...

Si Mozart m'était conté... Mozart , c'est plus de 600 œuvres, des dizaines de films, de pièces de théâtre, et une influence majeure sur toute la musique occidentale. Mozart, c'est aussi un enfant prodige exceptionnel, une vie de passion et de voyages dans l'Europe foisonnante du XVIIIe...

In this groundbreaking, historically-informed semiotic study of late eighteenth-century music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign and language theory. Illuminating his discussion with French, British, German, and Italian writings on...

Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the notion that there is a single format for sublime feeling, Wurth shows how, from the mid eighteenth...

(Schirmer Performance Editions). Claude Debussy dedicated "Children's Corner" to his daughter, Chou-Chou, when she was three years old. Some of the movements were inspired by her toys. The six lovely pieces expertly presented here by Christopher Harding are an excellent starting point for introducing...

Many of the most admired of Debussy's piano works, reprinted from authoritative French editions, among them the Etudes (1915), a late work that richly displays the full range and depth of Debussy's genius for the piano, and the magical Children's Corner (1906–8). Also included: Nocturne (1892),...