SKU: BR.OB-5534-15
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016. Song; Early modern. Part. 8 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5534-15. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5534-15).
ISBN 9790004341766. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Written early, orchestrated lateThe cycle Seven Early Songs on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets was put together in 1928, more than 20 years after the composition of the individual songs. From the large amount of songs for voice and piano that he had written in his early years, Alban Berg selected seven of them which he then orchestrated. After serious consideration, he laid down a definitive sequence in which the tempo constantly alternates while the orchestral instruments symmetrically recede before picking up again. Once the piano and orchestral editions were printed, the Seven Early Songs quickly conquered concert halls in both scorings. They are still at home on the concert stages of the world today which is reason enough to present this work by Alban Berg in an Urtext edition following the Violin Concerto. The orchestral material can now be purchased for the first time.Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016.
SKU: BR.OB-5534-27
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016. Song; Early modern. Part. 4 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5534-27. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5534-27).
ISBN 9790004341803. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5534-19
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016. Song; Early modern. Part. 8 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5534-19. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5534-19).
ISBN 9790004341780. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.PB-5567-07
ISBN 9790004213773. 6.5 x 9 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5534-16
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016. Song; Early modern. Part. 8 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5534-16. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5534-16).
ISBN 9790004341773. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5534-30
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016. Song; Early modern. Set of parts. 78 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5534-30. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5534-30).
ISBN 9790004341810. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5534-23
Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016. Song; Early modern. Part. 8 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #OB 5534-23. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.OB-5534-23).
ISBN 9790004341797. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: PR.UE026286
ISBN 9783702402563.
SKU: HL.49046240
ISBN 9783795714536. UPC: 888680964696. 6.0x9.0x0.237 inches.
The violin concerto from 1935 is probably the best-known and most frequently performed instrumental work by Alban Berg. Written on behalf of the violinist Louis Krasner, it is his last completed composition. Krasner played the solo part at the world premiere at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona on 19 April 1936 after Berg's death. The concert is dedicated to “The Memory of an Angel.†Berg processed the death of 18-year-old Manon Gropius, who had contracted polio, and his daughter Alma Mahler-Werfel's marriage to architect Walter Gropius. His intention was “to translate the traits of the young girl into musical charactersâ€. With more than 1,200 titles from orchestral and choral literature, chamber music and music theater, Edition Eulenburg is the largest score series in the world. It covers a large part of music history from the baroque to classical modernism and looks back on a long tradition.
SKU: AP.36-60440001
ISBN 9798888521748. UPC: 676737684600. English.
Alban Berg's (1885-1935) Vier Stücke für Klarinette und Klavier (Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano), Op. 5, was composed in 1913. They are his only true miniatures as, shortly after he wrote them, a fateful and somewhat traumatic lesson with his tutor Arnold Schoenberg drove the young Berg to abandon small-scale works altogether, turning towards large extended orchestral works at his teacher's heavily critical insistence. Each of the four movements (1. Mäßig; 2. Sehr langsam; 3. Sehr rasch; 4. Langsam) constantly changes in tempo, articulation, timbral effects, and dynamics throughout. Despite Schoenberg's criticism in 1913, the work did finally premiere on October 17, 1919, ironically at Schoenberg's own Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna. Reprint edition.
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SKU: PR.UE026335
ISBN 9783702475741. UPC: 803452072850.
Helene Berg, widow of Alban, was tasked with promoting and preserving her husband's work, specifically for future generations of musicians. In 1968, she created the Alban Berg Foundation to continue these efforts after her own passing. Contemporary music owes her gratitude.
SKU: HL.49007124
ISBN 9783795717896. German.
Rudolf Stephans Gesammelte Vortrage aus den Jahren 1964-1984 lassen die Grundintentionen seines wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens deutlich hervortreten: das musikalische Werk als individuelle Manifestation musikalischen Denkens zu begreifen. Stets stellt er die Musik selbst in den Mittelpunkt und sucht ihre Gesetzmassigkeiten und Strukturen aufzuspuren, zu beschreiben und zu begrunden. Mit Texten zu musikalischen Grundfragen, zum Schaffen der grossen Komponisten von Bach bis Reger sowie zu Musik und Musikern des 20. Jahrhunderts, ursprunglich konzipiert fur den lebendigen mundlichen Vortrag, bietet dieser Band einen reprasentativen Uberblick uber die Arbeit des bedeutenden Musikforschers.
SKU: BR.OB-15113-27
ISBN 9790004340226. 10 x 12.5 inches.
The tragic circumstances surrounding the origin of the concerto are well known: Manon Gropius, the daughter of Berg's friend Alma Mahler, died of polio after the composer had written the first sketches to his violin concerto. In remembrance of her, he dedicated the work to the memory of an angel. Later, Berg decided to incorporate into the score the Bach chorale Es ist genug as a quote. He also worked on the solo part directly and intensely with the American violinist Louis Krasner, who had commissioned the work. Berg was no longer able to witness the first performance and the first edition of the concerto since he passed away in late 1935. This new edition is the first Urtext version of Berg's work, which was created in the midst of a spate of epoch-making violin concertos by Stravinsky (1931), Schoenberg (1936), Prokofiev (1937), Bartok (1938), Hindemith (1939) a. o. Errors from the first edition were corrected after an in-depth comparison with the autograph score, the short score and, in some cases, with the twelve-tone row structure.The entire performance material can be purchased; however, due to copyright reasons, the score and orchestral parts are not available the United States.Werden die Urtextausgaben von Breitkopf & Hartel aufgrund ihres hellblauen Umschlags augenzwinkernd die Himmlischen genannt, so ist dies in Bezug auf die neu vorgelegte Partitur Programm. (Florian Henri Besthorn, neue musikzeitung)In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag.
SKU: BR.OB-15113-30
ISBN 9790004340233. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.PB-15122
ISBN 9790004212721. 6.5 x 9 inches.
The tragic circumstances surrounding the origin of the concerto are well known: Manon Gropius, the daughter of Berg's friend Alma Mahler, died of polio after the composer had written the first sketches to his violin concerto. In remembrance of her, he dedicated the work to the memory of an angel. Later, Berg decided to incorporate into the score the Bach chorale Es ist genug as a quote. He also worked on the solo part directly and intensely with the American violinist Louis Krasner, who had commissioned the work. Berg was no longer able to witness the first performance and the first edition of the concerto since he passed away in late 1935. This new edition is the first Urtext version of Berg's work, which was created in the midst of a spate of epoch-making violin concertos by Stravinsky (1931), Schoenberg (1936), Prokofiev (1937), Bartok (1938), Hindemith (1939) a. o. Errors from the first edition were corrected after an in-depth comparison with the autograph score, the short score and, in some cases, with the twelve-tone row structure.The entire performance material can be purchased; however, due to copyright reasons, the score and orchestral parts are not available the United States.Werden die Urtextausgaben von Breitkopf & Hartel aufgrund ihres hellblauen Umschlags augenzwinkernd die Himmlischen genannt, so ist dies in Bezug auf die neu vorgelegte Partitur Programm. (Florian Henri Besthorn, neue musikzeitung).
SKU: BR.OB-15113-19
ISBN 9790004340202. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.EB-10821
In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag
ISBN 9790201808215. 9.5 x 12 inches.
SKU: HL.49045078
ISBN 9783795770556. 6.0x8.0x0.428 inches. German.
Seit 1971 erscheint das Hindemith-Jahrbuch / Annales Hindemith. Es gehort zu den wenigen Schriftenreihen, die einem Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts gewidmet sind. Mit Beitragen zu Leben und Werk des Komponisten sowie der Bereitstellung von dokumentarischem Material aus dem Nachlass bietet diese Reihe die Grundlage fur die wissenschaftliche Beschaftigung mit dem Komponisten. Herausgeber ist das Hindemith Institut Frankfurt im Auftrag der Fondation Hindemith.
SKU: FG.55011-305-3
ISBN 9790550113053.
Nachtlieder (Night Songs) is Salonen's early work dating from 1978. It is in fact a sort of descendant of Alban Berg's Vier Stucke fur Klarinette und Klavier op. 5 (1913). Like Berg, Salonen has condensed his Expressionist night songs into concise, miniature-like proportions. The four-movement work is dominated by a meditative mood and the expressive melodies of the clarinet. This arrangement for ensemble by prof. Gregory Barrett is scored for flute, tenor saxophone, percussion, violin, viola, violoncello, double bass and the solo clarinet.
SKU: MH.1-59913-072-6
ISBN 9781599130729.
Program Notes: It was a happy coincidence that the commission for SINFONIA XVI: TRANSCENDENTAL VIENNA came from the Henry David Thoreau School located in Vienna, Virginia. Thoreau is one of the magic names in American culture: Henry David Thoreau, one of the leading figures of the Transcendentalist movement, centered in 19th-century New England, left us a body of unique philosophical and poetical writings. To utter the words, Walden Pond, is to invoke an America long past in physical actuality, but still present in the minds and hearts of many American citizens. The name, Vienna, of course, summons thoughts of the Old World: culture, fine food, wine, civilized cities. While contemplating the form that SINFONIA XVI should take, I found myself thinking of two pillars of Viennese culture: expressionism and the waltz. Musically speaking, expressionism reached a zenith in the works of Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg. It was Berg, in particular, that I wanted to invoke in the outer movements of my composition. I knew I would also have to include a waltz, and an invocation of the mysterious forces that are contained in both expressionism and transcendentalism. Thus was the structure of the work generated. The outer movements with their vision of the night sky and the stars, Aldebaran and Sirius, frame the central movements, which are essentially two versions of the same material, and are quieter and less dramatic. The outer movements are symmetrical, and share both pitch and rhythmic materials. Accordingly, I see the work as a ternary form, with the central movements forming a unit within the outer frame: A (Movement 1) B (Movements 2 & 3) A' (Movement 4). Harmonically, the work can be summarized by the two pitch-series which occur in the opening bars of Movement 1: the initial 12-note row, with a tonal center on F-sharp (measures 1-6), and the subsequent D-minor Dorian 7-note row (beginning in measure 14). Aspects of these materials occur in all four movements, but they are most strongly present in Movements 1 and 4. Note that the 12-note row is not subjected to the usual serial procedures, but instead is treated as a signifier and is left unchanged. Since the fourth movement takes up where the first movement leaves off, I can conceive of one interpretation of SINFONIA XVI as an evocation of Thoreau himself contemplating two of the brightest stars on a clear, cold night. Aldebaran is an orange, first-magnitude star, located in the constellation Taurus; Sirius, the Dog Star, is the brightest star in the sky, and is located in the constellation Canis Major. Thoreau interrupts his star-gazing to entertain some inward thoughts, waking dreams, as it were, then returns his gaze to the splendid night sky and all its treasures. Although many other interpretations of the material are possible, it is important to remember that the abstract materials of the piece -- pitch, rhythm, structure -- are what count the most. Ensemble instrumentation: 1 Piccolo, 4 Flute 1, 4 Flute 2, 3 Oboe, 1 Eb Clarinet (opt.), 4 Bb Clarinet 1, 4 Bb Clarinet 2, 4 Bb Clarinet 3, 3 Bass Clarinet, 3 Bassoon, 3 Eb Alto Saxophone 1, 3 Eb Alto Saxophone 2, 2 Bb Tenor Saxophone, 2 Eb Baritone Saxophone, 3 Bb Trumpet 1, 3 Bb Trumpet 2, 3 Bb Trumpet 3, 2 Horn 1, 2 Horn 2, 3 Trombone 1, 3 Trombone 2, 3 Euphonium B.C., 2 Euphonium T.C., 5 Tuba, 2 Timpani, 3 Percussion 1, 3 Percussion 2, 3 Percussion 3, 3 Percussion 4.
SKU: HL.49033272
ISBN 9783795705084. German.
Die Konstellation Werk und Geschichte eroffnet einen riesigen Raum der (in erster Linie) historischen Musikwissenschaft. Dass damit grosse Themen angeschlagen sind, oder dass sich mit jedem der Begriffsbestandteile wie auch mit dem Bezug zwischen ihnen Generationen von Forschern der verschiedensten Schulrichtungen befasst haben, darf weder verwirren noch entmutigen. Eines der Sujets, denen sich Rudolf Stephan immer wieder zugewandt hat, vorzunehmen, es von so vielen Seiten wie moglich zu beleuchten und seine Bearbeitung nach Moglichkeit voranzutreiben, erscheint als gute Moglichkeit, ihn zu ehren.
SKU: PR.UE007660
UPC: 680160565771.
