The 'Eroica Variations'---so-called because they were later re-worked for the finale of Beethoven's third ('Eroica') Symphony, Op. 55---occupy a prominent place in piano literature. Its structural grandeur and the originality and beauty of its piano writing set this work apart. The technical demands are considerable, on par with many other works from Beethoven's middle period. A brilliant finger t…

Variation form occupied Beethoven throughout his composing career. This first volume of G. Henle Publishers? two-volume edition of all his piano variations includes works from Beethoven?s time in Bonn as well as his early years inVienna composed between 1783 and 1799. Beethoven mostly took his themes from arias or songs from stage works that were popular at the time. Besides offering simple figur…

Jan Sweelinck (1562-1621) was among the most famous organists of seventeenth century Europe and an influential composer in the Dutch and North German tradition. Bridging both Renaissance and Baroque styles the Dutch composer is best remembered for the inventive sparkling music he wrote for organ and other keyboard instruments. This remarkable treasury includes nearly all of Sweelinck's brilliant…

A selection of 26 pieces by the Spanish guitarist Fernando Sor, considered the most important composer of guitar music in the early nineteenth-century. In this publication, Max Eschig continues the discovery of the considerable Romantic repertoire for the guitar, edited by Frédéric Zigante. This repertoire continues to be an essential part of a guitarist's studies and is still widely performed in …

Composer and organist Joseph Bonnet (1884-1944) is considered one of the most major French Pipe Organ players. It is no surprise therefore that his Variations De Concert for Organ are very well informed. Following his studies at the Paris Conservatoire Bonnet took over as concert organist at the institution. Variations De Concert for Organ was compiled in 1906 soon after his graduation. The …

This composition is based on a passacaglia theme in which artistic perfection symphonic drama and oriental melody lines play a role. The passacaglia is originally a dance made up of a series of variations above a bass line constantly present as an ostinato. It is not in this sense that the 'Symphonic Variations' are in the passacaglia form but in the sense of the open form of the variations. Jac…

In this Mel Bay publication guitarist/composer Rico Stover offers his original composition Romance Variations in a 25 page score of the work with accompanying audio.The RomanceAnonimo ('Anonymous Romance') is one of the most popular pieces in the classical guitar repertoire. Also known as Spanish Romance Romance de Amor Jeux interdits and Estudio de Rubira this 19th centurywork has continually…

This Drones Variations Ornaments sheet music is the full score for this innovative and dramatic piece by Nico Muhly. According to Muhly this piece is 'music in constant transformation' featuring steadily evolving melodies from a number of instruments punctuated with hugely original percussive parts with instructions to fill the Cymbal with chain coins and other metal objects in order to mak…

Description Johannes Brahms: Complete Sonatas And Variations For Solo Piano The most ambitious in scale of Brahms' pieces for piano solo, the sonatas and variations are contained complete within this volume. Songlist Piano Sonata No.1 In C Major Op.1 Piano Sonata No.2 In F Sharp Minor Op.2 Piano Sonata No.3 In F Minor Op.5 Variations And Fugue On A Theme By Handel B Flat Major Op.24 Variat…

Arrangeur: Shelley Collins. Par KROMMER FRANZ. Czech violinist Franz Krommer (1759-1831), who composed over 300 works of his own, freely borrowed from Ignace Joseph Pleyel's String Quartet in F Major to create this set of variations for two oboes and English horn. Shelley Collins has made it possible to perform this delightful arrangement in a variety of combinations of flutes: Two C Flutes and Al…

Variations Sur Un Thème Dans Le Style Ancien by Carlos Salzedo is the third and final work of a series called “Three pieces” for solo pedal Harp. Difficult to play it is rated 8° and requires good mastering of the instrument and of its technique including the pedals. Using the full range of the instrument this work features numerous trills glissandos and accidentals among other tec…

This volume presents nearly all of the composerâ??s works for piano solo: four piano sonatas Invitation to the Dance (a waltz later orchestrated by Berlioz) eight sets of variations 'Momento capriccioso ' 'Grande Polonaise ' 'Rondo brillante' and 'Polacca brillante.' Reprinted from the authoritative C. F. Peters edition.

Variations on Saints Bound for Heaven-Based on the American ‘shaped-note’ melody Saints Bound for Heaven Variations on a Shaped Note Melody by James Curnow captures a feeling of joyful celebration through a series of unique and skilfully adapted variations. The opening strains are actually fragments of the first variation and occur before the main tune is introduced by low brass. The second v…

Beethoven?s three sets of cello variations comprise the ?Twelve Variations on a Theme from H?ndel?s Oratorio ?Judas Maccabeus?? (WoO 45) the ?Twelve Variations on the theme ?Ein M?dchen oder Weibchen?? (op.66) from Mozart?s opera ?Die Zauberfl?te? and the ?Seven Variations on the duet ?Bei M?nnern welche Liebe f?hlen?? (WoO 46) also from ?Die Zauberfl?te?.These works have existed in many differ…