Item Number: S9.Q25349

25 easy pieces from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras, playable in the first three finger patterns in the first position, for violin pupils from the second year of learning. Apart from lesser known works, this edition also contains many popular pieces, such as themes from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Handel's Fireworks Music and Water Music, Mozart's Magic Flute or Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. This volume's intention is to grant access to classical masterpieces of concert literature with the help of such easy arrangements and spread the joy of classical music. A treasure trove for auditions at schools and music schools.

My blue violin draws both musicians and listeners into the world of swing and jazz. Fast cheerful pieces alternate with pensive ones. Titles like My Cat and Me or Die Radtour [The Bicycle Ride] make the poetry of small things resound. Like a musical diary, they make us notice the beautiful things in everyday life. The pieces are of easy to intermediate difficulty and suitable for performances as well as music lessons.

German - English.

Edition Schott reflects a wide variety of music and offers a comprehensive music library suitable for students, amateur and professional musicians.
Edition Schott ranges from Renaissance to Contemporary solo instruments to orchestra, well-known pieces to interesting rarities and includes about twenty of Schott's acknowledged and well-established instrumental series such as Guitar-Archive, Violin Library, Il Flauto Traverso and Original Music for Recorder.
Edition Schott publications share the highest production values and a distinct house style with clear notations, practical page-turns and high-quality paper.
Edition Schott maintains and extends the internationally recognized tradition of excellence and reliability established in 1770 by Schott Music.

When Ligeti taught composition at the University of Stockholm in the 1960s, he met his famous Swedish fellow composer Hilding Rosenberg (1892-1985). Ligeti wrote this musical greeting on the occasion of Rosenberg's 90th birthday.
The little piece is easy to play, composed in an extremely instrument-related manner and sounds really good. It shows that Ligeti, like Bach, Schumann and Bartok, was able to write easily playable and at the same time tonally convincing music in his personal style. Whether at an audition in a music school class or (as an encore) at a concert, it is impossible to resist the immediate charm of this composition.

For use in lessons or for your first concert performances - Easy Concert Pieces for Violin and Piano contains easy and well-known solo pieces from the Renaissance to the modern era, carefully selected according to technical and musical demands: Volume 1 Easy, Volume 2 Intermediate. All the pieces can be played in first position. Besides original compositions by Milan, Purcell, Corelli, Duval or Telemann there are readily playable arrangements of classical masterpieces such as Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Handel's Firework Music or Mozart's Magic Flute and modern compositions from the world of pop, jazz, spirituals, Bossa Nova and tango.

German - English - French.


Mostly remembered for his great compositions, during his life Edward Elgar was also a violin teacher.

These six short studies, presented in a progressive order of didactic difficulty, are, despite their simplicity, very musical. They can be played in the first position, but require the knowledge of all fingering patterns. The compositions are set in C major, A minor and G major with occasional modulations.

They are ideal practice-pieces to encourage confident reading and playing in various (and often neglected) fingering patterns. At the same time, they promote the understanding of different metres and characters.

This edition is part of the new Schott Student Edition series which offers varied literature at five different levels of difficulty, from 1 (easy) to 5 (difficult), for instrumental lessons:

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Practising - efficiently and with pleasure:
Accompanying tracks of the pieces available as downloads.

English ? German.

To mark the 250th anniversary of Schott Music, these treasures have been uncovered from the archives, reedited and presented in these beautiful editions. This anthology is aimed at intermediate to advanced violinists looking for some interesting new discoveries away from the standard repertoire. Containing works largely from the Romantic era, these are virtuoso pièces de résistance and encores, expressive character pieces, gems of salon music and elaborate arrangements of well-known melodies and themes. Many of the original compositions and arrangements were written by major instrumentalists of the 19th century.

33 pieces for violin and piano which are fun to play - this is what the new anthology of Wolfgang Birtel in the Violinissimo series has to offer! In addition to Joplin's eponymous work The Entertainer, the volume contains many other pieces .from classical .to .music on the lighter side, e.g. Fucik, Einzug der Gladiatoren, Rubinstein, Melody in F or Abreu, Tici Tico, Villoldo, El Choclo, Lincke, Berliner Luft, and other easily playable, but also lesser known, yet rewarding pieces.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time and as he reaches his 75th birthday in 2009 he remains prolific.
The sonata for violin and piano was written for the virtuoso violinist, Ilya Gringolts and first performed at the St Magnus Festival in Orkney in 2008. . The work is principally concerned with Italian architecture and the music takes both performers and audience across an imaginary walkway over Rome as proposed by the architect Giuseppe Rebecchini. . Starting at the 17th Century Chiesa Nuova the exceptional journey passes Renaissance churches, exhibition spaces, the river Tiber, glass faç.ades, sculptures and even a prison where a Lazio folk tune can be heard echoing from behind the walls. . The journey ends 15 minutes later at Gianicolo, an area where one can take in breathtaking views over the whole city.

The Violinissimo series attempts to make the rich repertoire of five centuries of violin music accessible for lessons, concerts and private music-making. The anthology Serenade contains a selection of 36 intermediate arrangements for violin and piano which can be used for performance purposes to enlarge the educational standard repertoire and make it more interesting and may therefore be a constant companion of every advanced pupil in his/her lessons.

The Easy Concert Pieces series .for Violin and Piano is intended for tuition purposes and are particularly suitable for performance at auditions and school concerts, for competitions, examinations . - and for music making at home too, of course. Volume 3 (intermediate) requires familiarity with the first four positions.
Besides well-known works such as the famous Air by Bach, the Largo from Handel's opera 'Xerxes' and a movement from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, there are rewarding concerto and sonata movements by Kuchler and Fiocco, as well as less familiar Romantic compositions by Rieding and Trowell. .Modern music is represented in two lovely pieces by Hermann Schroeder, also inspired by the theme of the seasons. . Young violinists will enjoy the four pop pieces that round off the selection

This edition contains klezmer tunes for 1-2 violins with piano accompaniment - sometimes lively and sweeping, sometimes soft and lyrical! Of easy to intermediate difficulty, the pieces are a valuable addition to music lessons and are suitable for both concert performances and music-making at home. In addition, chord symbols allow for accompaniment with the guitar or other instruments. .

Further editions by Joachim Johow: My Blue Violin (ED 21767), The Merry Fiddler (ED 21768), Coffee &. Violin (ED 22670).

Rota developed this quite spectacular, short chamber music work from the music he composed for the film 'Amanti senza amore (1947). The piece has been recorded for Teldec by Gidon Kremer And Oleg Maisenberg.

The Baroque Around the World series for flexible ensemble with keyboard can be used in the home, in schools and in music centres - ideal for informal music-making, as well as student and professional performance.

16 easy to intermediate pieces for violin (flute or oboe), keyboard and optional cello (bassoon). From 18th-century England, the collection includes country dances, Cheshire rounds, hornpipes and pantomime tunes, plus examples of the march, minuet, siciliana, gavotte and jig. Featured composers include Arne, Earl of Abingdon, Hebden, Holcombe, Linley, Roseingrave, Stanley, Thackray.

Sixteen easy to intermediate pieces from 18th-century Sweden. The collection, for violin (flute or oboe), keyboard and optional cello (bassoon), includes airs and dances by Roman, Agrell, Kraus, Wikmanson, Bellman.

The Baroque Around the World series for flexible ensemble with keyboard can be used in the home, in schools and in music centres - ideal for informal music-making, as well as student and professional performance.

Samuel Dushkin (1891-1976), advisor, duo partner and friend of Igor Stravinsky, wrote several transcriptions for his instrument, the violin, of then well-known and popular melodies from works by Stravinsky, of course, but also by other composers such as Bizet, Rachmaninov, Albé.niz and Wieniawski.

The present collection is a compilation of arrangements by well-known and unknown composers: Exotically tinged melodies by Paul Kirman, R. Felber or Alexander Sasonoff are juxtaposed to a beguiling waltz by Max Reger, tone paintings in Mussorgsky's 'Ripples', George Gershwin's jazzy 'Short Story' and many others. The collection is not complete without a movement from Stravinsky's 'L'Oiseau de feu' and a tango .- spectacular music for the violin.

Close your eyes and relax: these pieces are as pleasant and .evocative for the listener as a cup of coffee, and they're charming to play too! Together with the .audio online material .and the piano accompaniment, the pieces are suitable for lessons, concerts or just music-making at home. .Chord symbols facilitate accompaniment with guitar, accordion, .or other instruments.
Other editions: My Blue Violin (ED 21767) and The Merry Fiddler (ED 21768).