Piano

SKU: BR.SON-423

Complete Works. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Edited by Christian Martin Schmidt. Linen. Complete Works. Romantic period. Complete Works. 140 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #SON 423. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.SON-423).

ISBN 9790004802656. 9 x 12 inches.

It is significant that the highly self-critical Mendelssohn could envision if at all only four-hand piano arrangements of his Concert Overtures nos. 2, 3 and 4. He made it clear to the publisher Breitkopf & Hartel that a two-hand version would find no admirers. Since Mendelssohn made his own arrangements of the Hebrides Overture (op. 26) and the Overture zur schoenen Melusine (op. 32), this gives the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition the opportunity to bring out a slender supplementary volume to the orchestral scores of the four Concert Overtures (LMA I/8).

SKU: CA.5281000

Edited by Knud Breyer, Stefan König. Gesamt- und Werkausgaben: Max Reger. Hybrid Edition of works. Songs III (1901–1903). Full score (complete edition / selected edition). Carus Verlag #5281000. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.5281000).

ISBN 9790007297220.

The third volume in the Songs and Choral Works Series of the Reger Complete Works (RWA) contains the songs Max Reger composed (almost entirely in Munich) between 1901 and February 1903. With these compositions, Reger not only entered into direct competition with the so-called “Munich School” around Ludwig Thuille, Max von Schillings, and Richard Strauss, but also attempted to establish himself more widely as an uncompromising renewer of the genre. The songs contrast with the Romantic song aesthetic through their forward-looking declamatory style and they display a treatment of the piano which goes far beyond conventional song accompaniment.

In January 2008 the Max-Reger-Institut (MRI) in Karlsruhe began publishing a scholarly-critical edition of the works of Reger (RWA). This is supported by the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature, and as a Hybrid Edition is exploring new approaches in editorial techniques.

The digital offer belonging to the volume is published in an online portal.

Content
Kompositionen. Acht Lieder op. 79c
Lieder WoO VII/31und VII/32
Sechzehn Gesänge op. 62
Schlummerlied WoO VII/33
Zwölf Lieder op. 66
Sechs Gesänge op. 68
Siebzehn Gesänge op. 70
Wiegenlied WoO VII/35.

SKU: BR.BDV-382

Complete Letters in 35 Volumes and Supplements. Composed by Richard Wagner. Edited by Gertrud Strobel and Werner Wolf. Linen. Complete works/textbook. Romantic period. Complete Works. 584 pages. Deutscher Verlag fur Musik #BDV 382. Published by Deutscher Verlag fur Musik (BR.BDV-382).

ISBN 9783370002386. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. German.

With the publication of Volume 11 in November 1999, Werner Breigs fundamentally new scholarly concept of Richard Wagners complete letters begins to make itself felt more strongly. The meticulously annotated volumes are illustrated with facsimiles and little known photos. Further enhancing the value of this edition are a number of letters, which were hitherto practically unavailable and are published here for the first time. The commentaries are based on many previously unpublished documents.

Concerning Volume 10 (published one year later than Volume 11) we have obtained the following fax by the English Wagner expert Stewart Spencer, who wittily praises Werner Breig's fundamental new concept:

There is a general problem of reviewing such magnificent volumes. They are the yardstick by which all other writings on Wagner will be judged. It is like sending someone to inspect the standard metre rule in Paris and asking them to review it. All one can say is that it exists and that it is in a class of its own. I'd like to congratulate you on its publication and thank you most warmly for picking up this edition. (Stewart Spencer, October 11, 2000)

Im Sommer 1861 kommt es zur endgultigen Trennung des Ehepaars Wagner. Nach Auflosung des gemeinsamen Pariser Haushalts lasst sich Minna Wagner in Dresden nieder wo sie ihre letzten Lebensjahre verbringt. All dies ist in den Briefen detailliert nachzulesen daneben aber auch die kunstlerischen Erfolge des Jahres: In Frankfurt dirigiert Wagner zum ersten Mal seinen ,,Lohengrin (zwolf Jahre nach der Urauffuhrung!) in Leipzig stellt er die ,,Meistersinger-Ouverture vor und in Wien veranstaltet er Konzerte mit Szenen aus seinen Opern. Biographisch einschneidend sind die vollstandige Amnestierung - nun darf Wagner auch wieder den Boden seiner sachsischen Heimat betreten - sowie die weitere Entfremdung und schliesslich die endgultige Trennung von seiner Ehefrau Minna.