The Best of Mozart

50 Famous Pieces For Piano / Hard Cover. The popular anthology Best of Piano Classics is now available as an exclusive hardcover edition, with ribbon bookmark and high-quality binding. A thoughtful gift for any pianist! Selected for pupils in their first years of piano lessons, this volume contains 50 of the most beautiful original compositions for piano from the days of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) to the days of Alexander Grechaninov, providing playing material from the baroque period to the early 20th century. Apart from numerous individual pieces, it also contains easy sonatas and sonatinas by Haydn, Clementi, Mozart, and Beethoven. Complete with fingerings, tempo suggestions and notes on the execution of ornaments, this collection with its modern and reader-friendly layout is ideal for lessons and for playing at home. / Classique / Recueil / Piano

20 Original Pieces. Par . Dans la série à succès Best of Piano Classics, deux autres recueils d'œuvres originales et d'arrangements paraissent, désormais pour piano à quatre mains, pour un double plaisir de jouer de l'instrument : Best of Piano Duets 1 contient 20 duos originaux, dont la valse populaire et la danse hongroise n° 5 de Brahms ou la marche militaire de Schubert. Best of Piano Duets 2 contient 20 arrangements pour les amateurs exigeants de chefs-d'œuvre classiques, dont le célèbre canon de Pachelbel, 'Das klinget so herrlich' de la Flûte enchantée de Mozart ou l'atmosphère matinale de Grieg. Complétés par des doigtés, des suggestions de tempo et des indications de pédale, ces morceaux originaux et ces arrangements, qui sonnent bien et qui ont été sélectionnés pour des joueurs avancés, sont imprimés dans un style moderne et agréable à lire et sont recommandés non seulement pour l'enseignement, mais aussi pour tous ceux qui pratiquent le piano comme un hobby. / Niveau : Moyen / Date parution : 2023-09-13/ Recueil / Piano 4 Mains

Série best-seller Chester Music, The Gold Easy Piano Collection, met en vedette certains des plus grands compositeurs de musique classique allant de JS Bach à Scott Joplin.Chacun des albums met en lumière des oeuvres essentielles d'un compositeur particulier, le contenant de la musique originale pour piano, ainsi que des transcriptions de pièces d'autres. Best Of d'Or présente une sélection de la meilleure musique de la série. / Piano

10 Pièces Célèbres Pour Flûte et Piano. The most popular works of flute literature in one volume: Best of Flute Classics features music from four centuries by Handel, J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, Donizetti, Fauré, Roussel, Chaminade, Reinecke and Taffenl. The collection of original works for flute is ideal study or concert repertoire for intermediate and advanced flautists. The edition also comes with a basso continuo part for the sonatas by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Back and Handel. / Niveau : Moyen / Recueil / Flûte Traversière et Piano

Probably best known as the theme to the BBC Horse of the Year Show this ebullient tune by Mozart remains a firm favourite with musicians and audiences alike. / Piano 4 Mains / niveau : Elémentaire / Recueil

A fantastic jazz guitarist who combines his crossover guitar range with smooth vocals in his wide-ranging body of work. The Best Of...Revised Edition comes as a guitar transcript with notes and tablature.

One of Mozarts most famous operas and one of his last works Die Zauberflöte (“The Magic Flute”) continues to be performed worldwide each year. From its iconic majestic opening three chords Mozartsoverture is a wonderfulcombination of the sentiment and spirit of the opera that follows. This adaption for strings is classical programming at its very best.

Par HERDER. Eighty-three best-loved works over 30 composers including Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Paderewski. Edited by Ronald Herder./ Recueil / Piano

Piano Sonata D major K. 284 (205b) Editor: Ernst Herttrich Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold The Sonata in D major is the last of the Six Sonatas K. 279-284 that Mozart had in his luggage when he set off for Paris in September 1777. He had already successfully performed this music in Munich, Augsburg and Mannheim, a fact he proudly told his father back at home. He gave the works particularly rich dynamic markings and also found unusual solutions concerning their formal aspect, for instance having a slow Rondeau en Polonaise as the middle movement of the Sonata in D major. The six sonatas, which were previously only published together in the complete volumes (HN 1 and 3), are now all available as single editions with new prefaces. Mozart dedicated this Sonata to a Freiherr Thaddäus von Dürnitz - which is why it has often been called the Dürnitz-Sonata. It is undoubtedly the best, the most brilliant and the most technically demanding of these six early Sonatas. Understandably, Mozart retained a special affection for it and continued to perform it himself. It was this Sonata of which he said that it sounded incomparable on Stein's new fortepianos. FIRST MOVEMENT A first version of the beginning of the first movement, written on one and a half pages, was cancelled by Mozart. On the same page, he started anew to write the final version underneath. The thematic material of this opening movement (and to a lesser degree also that of the following movements) is laid out on a more ample, nearly orchestral scale, a departure from the intimacy of the early sonatas. The tremolo effect in measures 13-16 and the unison announcements of the first subject read very much like a piano reduction of an orchestral tutti. The second subject, a supple melodic line, unaccompanied in its opening bar, incorporates a descending chain of first inversions a favourite harmonic formula of the baroque and classical periods. (There are analogous passages in the subsidiary themes in Gluck's overture Iphigénie en Tauride and the first movements of J. S. Bach's Italian Concert). This functions as a solo passage in contrast to the ensuing tutti entries in m.30. The development moves through a circle of minor keys before the recapitulation begins in measure 72. SECOND MOVEMENT Mozart called the second movement a Rondeau en Polonaise, so it is a dance. The opening four measures from a kind of dialogue (like the theme of the first movement of the preceding G major Sonata), and Mozart subjects them to felicitous counter-statement is heightened by Mozart's meticulous dynamic markings. THIRD MOVEMENT The last movement of the Sonata is a pianistically rewarding, cheerful set of variations, which, up to the adagio variation, has the character of a gavotte. It shows Mozart's special gift for writing variations at its most brilliant. The superficial impression of a diffuse form does not stand up to a closer inspection: it would not be at all easy to omit one of the twelve variations, or to add an extra one. The adagio variation is on special interest to Mozart scholars, for it gives us some insights into his concept of impromptu ornamentation. The autograph is only modestly ornamented, and Mozart presumably embellished it in performance as his fancy dictated. But a richly ornamented version survived in the first edition, published during Mozart's lifetime, and undoubtedly this embellished version is Mozart's own work. Who else could embellish in such an ingenious way? It illuminates Mozart's ideas on ornamentation in general and in particular. Paul and Eva-Badura-Skoda

Edited with additional material from the Salzburg version“In Italy nowadays this term (motet) is applied to a Latin sacred solo cantata consisting of two arias and two recitatives concluding with an Hallelujah and sung during the Mass following the Credo generally by one of the best singers.” One composition matching this description is the solo motet Exsultate jubilate K. 165/158a which Mozart wrote in Milan early in 1773 following the highly successful performance of his opera Lucio Silla.In 1978 when the music manuscripts in Bavaria were being sorted and cataloged in a project sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft a set ofmanuscript parts for a previously unknown second version was discovered in the town parish church of St. Jakob in Wasserburg am Inn. The music and text of the concluding Alleluja movement were written out by the Salzburg court bassoonist and copyist Joseph Richard Estlinger (c. 1720–1791) who frequently worked for Mozart and his father.The vocal text of this Salzburg manuscript departs from that of the Milan version in the first aria and in the recitative. It was entered in a different hand. The Salzburg version of the text is clearly related to the feast of the Holy Trinity. There is much evidence that this version was sung for the first time in the Dreifaltigkeitskirche on 30 May 1779 (i. e. Trinity Sunday) by the Salzburg male soprano Francesco Ceccarelli during a service mentioned by Nannerl Mozart. On that day Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart together with Ceccarelli were invited to the church’s vicarage at midday. The additional text underlaying of the first aria enabled the solo motet to be employed for the Christmas service as well.- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition- Full score performance material (BA4897) and vocal score (BA4897-90) available for sale

Waisenhausmesse. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Bei Mozarts Missa in c-Moll KV 139 [114a] von 1768/69, der sog. Waisenhausmesse, handelt es sich sehr wahrscheinlich um den ersten Beitrag des Komponisten im Genre der Missa solemnis [mit Blechbläser], wie sie für kirchliche Hochfeste und andere besonders repräsentative geistliche Anlässe gepflegt wurde. Wie die Nähe von Kyrie und Agnus etwa zu Glucks 1762 in Wien uraufgeführter Oper 'Orfeo' [Furienszene, Eingangschor] zeigt, greift der junge Mozart in diesen Teilen der Messe unmittelbar auf bühnendramatische Ausdrucksmittel zurück. So besticht die Messe gerade durch ihre Kühnheit und lebhaften Kontraste, die Mozart in seinen späteren Messen eher vermeidet. / Messe / Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Hautbois, 2 Clarinet

Waisenhausmesse. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Bei Mozarts Missa in c-Moll KV 139 [114a] von 1768/69, der sog. Waisenhausmesse, handelt es sich sehr wahrscheinlich um den ersten Beitrag des Komponisten im Genre der Missa solemnis [mit Blechbläser], wie sie für kirchliche Hochfeste und andere besonders repräsentative geistliche Anlässe gepflegt wurde. Wie die Nähe von Kyrie und Agnus etwa zu Glucks 1762 in Wien uraufgeführter Oper 'Orfeo' [Furienszene, Eingangschor] zeigt, greift der junge Mozart in diesen Teilen der Messe unmittelbar auf bühnendramatische Ausdrucksmittel zurück. So besticht die Messe gerade durch ihre Kühnheit und lebhaften Kontraste, die Mozart in seinen späteren Messen eher vermeidet. / Messe / Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Hautbois, 2 Clarines

Edited with additional material from the Salzburg version“In Italy nowadays this term (motet) is applied to a Latin sacred solo cantata consisting of two arias and two recitatives concluding with an Hallelujah and sung during the Mass following the Credo generally by one of the best singers.” One composition matching this description is the solo motet Exsultate jubilate K. 165/158a which Mozart wrote in Milan early in 1773 following the highly successful performance of his opera Lucio Silla.In 1978 when the music manuscripts in Bavaria were being sorted and cataloged in a project sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft a set ofmanuscript parts for a previously unknown second version was discovered in the town parish church of St. Jakob in Wasserburg am Inn. The music and text of the concluding Alleluja movement were written out by the Salzburg court bassoonist and copyist Joseph Richard Estlinger (c. 1720–1791) who frequently worked for Mozart and his father.The vocal text of this Salzburg manuscript departs from that of the Milan version in the first aria and in the recitative. It was entered in a different hand. The Salzburg version of the text is clearly related to the feast of the Holy Trinity. There is much evidence that this version was sung for the first time in the Dreifaltigkeitskirche on 30 May 1779 (i. e. Trinity Sunday) by the Salzburg male soprano Francesco Ceccarelli during a service mentioned by Nannerl Mozart. On that day Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart together with Ceccarelli were invited to the church’s vicarage at midday. The additional text underlaying of the first aria enabled the solo motet to be employed for the Christmas service as well.- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition- Full score performance material (BA4897) and vocal score (BA4897-90) available for sale