Supplement 8 of the New Liszt Edition contains first versions of Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos 12-21 and two shorter Liszt pieces with a Hungarian connection. All works in the volume appear here for the first time in a scholarly edition. This version of the Hungarian Rhapsodies ensued in 1846-50 from Magyar dallok (Hungarian Songs) Nos 1-11, published in Supplement 7. Piece #13 is based on the Rákóczi …

Par DE HAAN JAN. Inspiration was commissioned by the Solothurnischer Kanotonal Musikverband in Switzerland in 1993. The composition begins with an A-theme written in a Phrygian tonality and, after an enormous climax, moves on into a quicker B-section, characterized by the use of wide interval jumps. Then follows the development in which both themes return individually and together. Peace and quiet…

Studienpartitur - STP - solo-viola, gr. flute, oboe, 2 clarinets (in Eb and B), bassclarinet (in Bb), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, horn (in F), 2 trumpets (in C), 2 trombones, basstuba, 4 cellos, 4 double basses The chamber music works are among Hindemith's most successful instrumental works of the 1920s. At the world premiere of 'Chamber Music No. 1', the audience even demanded a repetition of th…

Approche de la guitare, volume 1 par Arnaud Sans'Approche de la guitare' a été conçu afin de permettre aux jeunes guitaristes d'acquérir une méthode de travail performante et ce des leurs premières cases...En aucun cas, ce manuel de guitare n'a la prétention d'évincer les méthodes existantes, ni l'audace de croire ou ne serait-ce que de prétendre à l'annonce d'une nouvelle vérité. Au contraire, pr…

Partly based on the hymn tune Laudate Dominum. Par DE HAAN JACOB. This work is based on a well-known myth about the city of Zwolle in the Netherlands. In the waters surrounding Zwolle lived a dragon that regularly emerged. Time and time again he threatened to destroy the city with his fiery breath if he was not given a living sacrifice. The archangel, Michael, who manifested himself as a young kni…

Beethoven is presumed to have completed his 5th Symphony in early 1808- today, it is one of the most famous works of classical music of all. Its nickname 'Fate Symphony? was given to it posthumously by Beethoven's biographer Anton Schindler- a title which no longer plays a role in modern-day Beethoven scholarship. Based on the recently published musical text of the Beethoven Complete Edition and s…

Regarded as the highlight among Chopin's polonaises, the great Polonaise in A flat major Op. 53 has also become known as 'octave polonaise' because of the distinctive octave passages in the middle section. As was customary at that time, the work was published in a German, English and French first edition each. There also exists an autograph which served as an engraver's copy for the German first e…