SKU: BR.EB-8942

ISBN 9790004187036. 9 x 12 inches.

Friedrich Schneider's extensive work for piano has not to date attracted any research attention, although he enjoyed an excellent reputation as composer and conductor and was one of the most highly regarded piano virtuosos of his time. Extant of his are no less than 42 piano sonatas composed in the surprisingly brief period from 1802 to 1814, hence still before Beethoven had written any of his late sonatas. 24 piano sonatas appeared in print, many others remain simply in manuscript. In the coming years we are presenting all of Friedrich Schneider's piano sonatas for the first time in modern editions. The sonatas are ordered within 4 volumes chronologically by year of composition, starting now with volume II, which gives an overview of Schneider's more mature sonatas. The edition is being edited by Prof. Ulrich Urban, who has for years dealt intensively with this composer's piano work.

Schneider's piano sonatas complement the view of this genre between Haydn and Beethoven and are an important expansion to the repertoire for both specialists and students, with technical demands representing the whole range from moderate to very difficult.

SKU: BR.PB-32030

ISBN 9790004215159. 0 x 0 inches.

Promising Discovery When a recording of this Symphony No. 17 by Friedrich Schneider appeared in 2002, it attracted some attention. Now, Breitkopf & Hartel presents the work that, like all Schneider's symphonies, had remained unpublished, for the first time in a modern edition. The composer does not use a pathetic-heroic tone as suggested by the key, but follows the urgent, roving, and cantabile character that the key has possessed, especially in early Romanticism since the Sturm und Drang. It is reminiscent of Franz Schubert who ventured a very similar reinterpretation of the classical symphony. With this work Schneider succeeds in designing a remarkably coherent and carefully developed composition. A gain for the repertoire, since the symphony, composed in 1822 and premiered that year in the Leipzig Gewandhaus, shows so much merit.

SKU: BR.EB-32004

Passion Music After Bach

ISBN 9790004186305. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.

This Passion oratorio Gethsemane und Golgatha was composed in the astonishingly short period from 22 to 28 July 1838 on a text by the evangelist Wilhelm Schuber, a close friend of Friedrich Schneider's. The premiere took place on Good Friday, 29 March 1839, in the Dessau Castle and City Church under the composer's direction. Contemporary reviews rank the curious work ... with respect to the form, in line with the Passions of the great J. S. Bach, constructed with such pious meaning and high art [...] and then get rather similarly carried away in effusive statements. The composer himself took utmost control of how his work was to be used and also most effectively involved the listening congregation in the performances by using for the chorales melodies that were sufficiently familiar from the worship service. At the same time, Schneider points out that the work was to be performed only in an ecclesiastical context. Purely as a Passion oratorio, Gethsemane und Golgatha fits in between the Johann Sebastian Bach Passions and Carl Loewe's Das Suhnopfer des neuen Bundes.

Passion Music After Bach.

SKU: BR.EB-32078

ISBN 9790004186633. 9 x 12 inches.

Friedrich Schneider is known today above all for his extensive oeuvre in the area of the oratorio. No less important, however, in addition to his symphonic work, is his group of works for piano and/or chamber music. His cello sonata in F major, with all four movements large in scale, was probably composed in 1831 for the daughter of the Cologne music patron, Dr. Erich Heinrich Verkenius. With its expressiveness, monumental structure, and post-Beethovenian sensuality, this sonata already seriously anticipates Romanticism. Our edition offers two solo parts: an unmarked original text as well as a version with fingerings and bowings by the Leipzig based cellist Jurnjakob Timm.

SKU: BA.BVK02621

ISBN 9783761826218. 21 x 15 cm inches. Language: German. Preface: Annette Landgraf.

Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge von Forscherinnen und Forschern aus Deutschland, Großbritannien, Österreich, Japan, Südafrika, Barbados und den USA zur Internationalen Wissenschaftlichen Konferenz 2021 in Halle (Saale). Präsentiert werden neue Forschungsergebnisse zum Thema „Erlösung und Moderne. Händels ‚Messiah‘ zwischen dem späten 18. und dem 21. Jahrhundert“.

Einige freie Beiträge schließen sich an. Darüber hinaus enthält der Band den Festvortrag „Held und Erlöser. Christusbilder in Oratorien von Georg Friedrich Händel bis Friedrich Schneider“ von Andreas Waczkat, gehalten im Rahmen der Händel-Festspiele 2021. Berichte und Informationen wie u. a. die Bibliographie und der Bericht des Präsidenten ergänzen das Jahrbuch.

SKU: CA.4084025

ISBN 9790007162528. Key: B flat major. Language: German.

Score available separately - see item CA.4084000.

SKU: CA.4084024

ISBN 9790007162511. Key: B flat major. Language: German. Text: Herder, Johann Gottfried. Text: Johann Gottfried Herder.

Score available separately - see item CA.4084000.

SKU: CA.7010069

ISBN 9790007228699. Key: E flat major. Language: German.

Score available separately - see item CA.7010000.

SKU: CA.2331300

ISBN 9790007037901.

SKU: HL.51483002

SKU: CA.2729000

ISBN 9790007112462. Language: Latin.