The three popular sonatas op. 10 were written between the end of 1795 and the beginning of 1798, only shortly after Beethoven had completed his first fully-fledged sonatas op. 2. In the press they were announced as ?3 very nice piano sonatas' of a composer whose name would sufficiently guarantee ?for the quality of his work to the audience.' The three technically and musically demanding works, whi…

Par MAENPAA ROOPE. Roope Mäenpää's Sonata for flute and piano (2020) was composed on a small island Utö in the Archipelago Sea (in the Baltic Sea). Isolated from his normal environment the composer didn't find so much peace or harmony as insecurity and introversion. These sensations of otherness, together with an intensive creative project, left a diary-like mark on the sonata. It is commissioned …

Sept pièces pour piano. Par LAKS SIMON. Simon Laks (1901-1983), who moved from Warsaw to Paris in 1926 at the age of 25, belonged to the large group of composers from Central and Eastern European countries who went down in 20th-century music history as the ?École de Paris?. Slavic temperament amalgamated in their music with French esprit, the folklore of their native countries combined with the st…

Flötensonate mit konzertierendem Cembalo. Par QUANTZ JOHANN JOACHIM. Johann Joachim Quantz was born in Oberscheden near Hanover on 30th January, 1697 and died on 12th July, 1773, the highly esteemed court composer and chamber musician to King Frededck II of Prussia. His life's work was based on the fute. He taught the fute, which was to be become the fashionable instrument of the time, to the youn…

The work of Paul Hindemith is encyclopedic in nature. From the outset, he worked in all musical genres and devised several of his musical ideas and projects not as individual, self-contained works but as work cycles with different functional relationships. These contrasting pieces complement each other if experienced as part of the overall structure. Hindemith himself not only wanted a complete ed…

Par CHOPIN FREDERIC. The Complete Chopin ? A New Critical Edition from Edition Peters is firmly established as the most important ongoing scholarly edition of Chopin\'s music and is a must for any discerning pianist. The world?s foremost Chopin editors, under Editor-in-chief John Rink, bring their unrivalled collective knowledge to imbue the project with unique authority, drawing upon the latest i…

Qui a besoin de Mallet Percussion entraînement? Tout le monde, du débutant au professionnel, qui veut jouer des instruments à maillet avec la facilité, de la dextérité et de la précision. Ce livre comble une lacune dans maillet livres de méthode --- apprentissage séquences à renforcer la confiance et la capacité en lecture à vue, le développement de douceur, même petits pains, de plus en plus ambi…

Trésor de 15 ouvrages de vulgarisation pour piano solo par le célèbre élève de Mozart, Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Sonatas, Opp. 13, 20, 81 and 106, well-known Rondo, Op. 11, 24 miniature Preludes, Op. 67, Variations on a Theme by Gluck, Op. 57, Rondo-Fantasie, Op. 19, Rondo all'Ungherese, Op. 107, #6 et 6 plus élégamment conçu morceaux. Réimpression de sélections de Sonaten et Klavier-Stücke, Universa…