SKU: BR.EB-4323

ISBN 9790004162774. 9 x 12 inches.

Busoni's Bach Advanced SchoolIn October 1909, Breitkopf & Hartel succeeded in winning Ferruccio Busoni for the edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's piano works. Busoni had studied the music of Bach more intensively than almost any other artist of his time had. As a pianist, arranger, theorist and pedagogue, Busoni was instrumental in bringing Bach out of the 19th century and into the 20th century. That same year, Busoni and two collaborators, Bruno Mugellini and Egon Petri, began work on the instructive edition, which was to comprise 25 volumes. The first volumes were published in the spring of 1916, and in May 1923, the Bach Advanced School project was finally completed. This also marked the end of Busoni's thirty-year-long creative involvement with Bach's works, the impact of which still reaches far beyond the Bach-Busoni formula.All alterations and additions pursue the educational intent of affording the student insight into the mechanism of the composition. Moreover, they illustrate and supplement the views presented only in a sketchy manner in the introductions. In several cases, it takes the sum of the comments on the various pieces to constitute the all-encompassing opinion on one and the same question. (Ferruccio Busoni).

SKU: BR.EB-9358

Duo or Trio? This early work by Busoni is a flute duet with an amazingly independent piano accompaniment.

ISBN 9790004188286. 9 x 12 inches.

The duo for 2 flutes and piano was written during Ferruccio Busoni's period of compositional instruction with Wilhelm Mayer in Graz, who commented below the music text: The invention is nice, the work superb - thus, praising the contrapuntal skills of the then fourteen-year-old. The carefully written-out flute parts suggest, however, that this piece was not intended as just a practice piece: It was also to be performed. In his youth Ferruccio Busoni was considered especially gifted at the piano. It is probably due to this talent that the piano part often departs from being merely a functional accompaniment, to becoming an equal musical partner with the flute duo.

Duo or Trio? This early work by Busoni is a flute duet with an amazingly independent piano accompaniment.

SKU: BR.EB-9429

ISBN 9790004189061. 0 x 0 inches. German / Italian.

Text by the composer based on a drama by Carlo GozziTranslation: engl. (L. Salter), ital. (O. Previtali)Place: Im aussersten Orient. Vor dem Stadttor Pekings, Thronsaal im Kaiserpalast, das Frauengemach TurandotsCharacters: Altoum, Kaiser (bass) - Turandot, seine Tochter (soprano) - Adelma, ihre Vertraute (mezzo-soprano) - Kalaf, Sohn des Timur, ein Prinz (tenor) - Barak, sein Getreuer (baritone) - Die Koniginmutter von Samarkand, eine Mohrin (soprano) - Truffaldino, Haupt der Eunuchen (tenor) - Pantalone, Minister (bass) - Tartaglia, Minister (bass) - Acht Doktoren (4 tenors, 4 basses) - Eine Vorsangerin (mezzo-soprano) - Der Scharfrichter (stumme Rolle)Busoni's work, which antedates Puccini's famous setting by a few years, seems rather cool in com-parison to the later piece. Busoni tones down the colors of his orientalisms and totally eschews sentimental lyricism. His strengths lie especially in the scintillating, unfathomable characters and in a music that hovers in an ambivalent manner between brightness and darkness, sadness and humor, danger and harmlessness. This work of art makes its references clear: Gozzi's play about the murderous princess is peopled with familiar commedia dell'arte figures, and one is not quite sure whether this mixture of fun and danger gives a more relaxed feeling to the activity on the stage or whether it does not do precisely the opposite, adding the irreconcilable perspective of a gondola trip on the edge of a bottomless gulf. Busoni is more faithful to Gozzi than Puccini and thus to the gracious levity that hovers over the excesses of the action. His mild chinoiseries repeatedly lead to a Neo-Classicism inspired by Venetian folklore. (Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich, 1985) Turandot was premiered with Arlecchino in Zurich on 11 May 1917.

SKU: BT.DHP-1135392-010

9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

Goetheâ??s Faust has already been set to music by various renowned musicians, such as Berlioz, Busoni and Spohr, and indeed Charles Gounod, who built his eponymous opera around the tale. Gounodâ??s Faust is primarily known for its lovely melodies and its beautifully expressive vocal parts and subtle orchestrations. One of the high points of this opera is doubtless this impressive Cavatina (â??Salut, demeure chaste et pureâ?). Wil van der Beek has arranged the Cavatina with the euphonium as solo instrument.

Goethes Faust is in het verleden al door verschillende componisten - waaronder Berlioz en Spohr - op muziek gezet. Ook Charles Gounod gebruikte Faust voor zijn gelijknamige opera. Zijn versie staat bol van prachtige melodieën en uiterst expressieve zangpartijen in een gera_x001C_ffineerde orkestratie. Een van deze hoogtepunten is zeker zijn Cavatina (â??Salut, demeure chaste et pureâ?), in deze versie van Wil van der Beek bewerkt voor euphonium en orkest.

Goethes Faust wurde schon mehrfach von namhaften Komponisten vertont - darunter Berlioz, Busoni, Spohr und eben auch Charles Gounod, der aus dem Stoff_x001F_ die gleichnamige Oper komponierte. Sein Faust ist vor allem fu?r herrliche Melodien sowie schöne, ausdrucksvolle Vokalpartien und feinsinnige Orchestrierungen bekannt. Einer der Höhepunkte dieser Oper ist zweifellos diese eindrucksvolle Cavatina (Salut, demeure chaste et pureâ??). Wil van der Beek wählte fu?r seine Bearbeitung das Euphonium als Soloinstrument.

Faust, de Goethe a été plusieurs fois mis en musique par des compositeurs célèbres - dont Berlioz, Busoni et Spohr. En sâ??inspirant de la pièce de Goethe, Charles Gounod composa un opéra connu pour ses belles mélodies, ses chants expressifs et ses orchestrations subtiles. Un des points forts de cet opéra est sans aucun doute cette impressionnante Cavatine intitulée Salut ! Demeure chaste et pure. Wil van der Beek a choisi, pour son arrangement, de confi_x001C_er la partie solo lâ??euphonium. Un choix judicieux, qui placera votre soliste sous les feux de la rampe gr ce cette cavatine vibrante dâ??émotion et de sensibilité.

Il Faust di Goethe fu più volte messo in musica da compositori famosi quali Berlioz, Busoni, Spohr e Charles Gounod che compose lâ??opera omonima. Il suo Faust è noto per le belle melodie, le parti vocali particolarmente espressive e la ra_x001F_nata orchestrazione. Uno dei punti di forza di questa opera è senza dubbio lâ??imponente Cavatina (Salut, demeure chaste et pure). Wil van der Beek ha scelto di arrangiare la sua Cavatina per eufonio solo e banda.

SKU: BR.EB-9433

ISBN 9790004189108. 9 x 12 inches. German.

Text by the composerTranslation: engl. (E. J. Dent), ital. (V. Levi), port. (G. de Medeiros)Place and time: Bergamo, around the 18th century.Characters: Ser Matteo del Sarto, master tailor (baritone) - Abbate Cospicuo (baritone) - Dottore Bombasto (bass) - Leandro, Cavaliere (tenor) - Arlecchino (speaking part) - Colombina, Arlecchino's wife (mezzo-soprano) - Annunziata, Matteo's wife - Zwei Sbirren - Ein Karrner - a Donkey - People at the windows (silent parts)The idea behind this work was to combine a major speaking role with a part for a female singer and orchestra in the spirit of the opera buffa. The overall tone is pacifistic and anti-bourgeois. Busoni's inspiration was that of an opera-play in the style of Italian improvised comedy; he wanted types and characters on stage whose varying typology would provide the source of conflict ... The title hero absconds with the young wife of the Dante-reading tailor Matteo. He returns as a false barbarian commander, as a husband who engages in a duel with the suitor Count Leandro, and as a conqueror who announces the moral of the story in the epilogue: how to be able to bow in rags and still retain one's dignity and rights. The piece takes a turn for the absurd when the Abbate, at the sight of Leandro, who is presumed dead, begins to sing a chorale-like song of praise to the donkey of Providence who comes trotting in at that moment. This introduces the most musically refined number in the piece, the quartet, in which Leandro's love aria and his duet with Columbina satirize the attitudes prevalent in Italian opera from Scarlatti to Verdi. Musically, Busoni uses throughout the entire work an idiom of dance-like, blissfully transparent comedy and hides harmonic audacities behind touches of lightness. The orchestral sound radiates an incomparable brightness and buoyant elegance. (Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, 1967)

In the appendix, EB 9433 contains the later composed aria Wer siegt? Wer fallt?..

SKU: BR.EB-8147

ISBN 9790004175309. 9 x 12 inches.

Busoni's elaborate fugue an 0 du lieber Augustin is undoubtedly a kind of secret declaration of love to this simple dance melody.

SKU: BR.EB-10825

In Cooperation with G. Henle VerlagEB 10825 is printed in score form; two copies are needed for performance. Our edition EB 8579 contains a Ferrucci Busoni cadenza for the Piano. Solo concerto; Classical. Piano reduction. 80 pages. Duration 33'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 10825. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-10825).

ISBN 9790201808253. 9.5 x 12 inches.

The C major Concerto K. 503 was held in particularly high esteem by Mozart, who, for example, put it on the program of his subscription concert at Leipzigs Gewandhaus in 1789, three years after it was written. This new edition is based on the autograph and also takes into account the first edition published by Constanze Mozart at her own cost in 1797.The editorial quality of the new edition is guaranteed not only by Schiffs sensitive fingerings and stylistically well-grounded cadenzas, but also by the Mozart scholar Ernst Herttrich to whom Henle has entrusted its urtext editions.Breitkopf/Henle cooperation means: Each work is edited according to predetermined standardized editorial guidelines. First and foremost among the sources consulted were Mozarts handwritten scores, being the most important sources. In some cases they had not been available when the previous editions were being prepared. Moreover, we know today that in addition to Mozarts own manuscripts, early copies in parts and prints also contain important information regarding the musical text.

Our edition EB 8579 contains a Ferrucci Busoni cadenza for the Piano Concerto in C major K. 503.

SKU: BR.OB-4430-15

ISBN 9790004308882. 9 x 12 inches.

Ferruccio Busoni arranged the Cadenzas of Mozart's Piano Concertos, also the K. 466.

SKU: BR.OB-4430-16

The edition EB 8578 Busoni, Cadenzas for W. A. Mozart's Piano Concertos contains cadenzas for the Piano Concerto in D minor K. 466.

ISBN 9790004308899. 9 x 12 inches.

Ferruccio Busoni arranged the Cadenzas of Mozart's Piano Concertos, also the K. 466.

SKU: BR.OB-4430-30

The edition EB 8578 Busoni, Cadenzas for W. A. Mozart's Piano Concertos contains cadenzas for the Piano Concerto in D minor K. 466.

ISBN 9790004308929. 9 x 12 inches.

Ferruccio Busoni arranged the Cadenzas of Mozart's Piano Concertos, also the K. 466.

SKU: BR.OB-4430-19

ISBN 9790004308905. 9 x 12 inches.

Ferruccio Busoni arranged the Cadenzas of Mozart's Piano Concertos, also the K. 466.