(Piano). By Robert Schumann. Piano Collection. 96 pages. G. Schirmer #LB 2094. Published by G. Schirmer

By Schumann. For piano. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music).

By Robert Schumann. For Piano. (Piano Solo). CD Sheet Music (Version 2.0). PDF file on CD. 800 pages. Published by Subito Music.

Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Edited by Mario Aschauer. This edition: urtext edition. Stapled. Barenreiter Urtext. With the Rondo "Alla Turca". Performance score. KV 331 (300i). Baerenreiter Verlag #BA11816. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag

Beethoven's Greatest Sonatas * Highlight Edition with CD composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). For piano. This edition: Paperback. Collection. Classical. Book and CD. Text Language: English. 48 pages. Published by Santorella Publications

Composed by John Brimhall. For Piano. Paperback. Instructional, Method. Book. 112 pages. Published by Santorella Publications

Piano

SKU: PA.H07911

Fur Klavier. Composed by Luboš Fišer. Stapled. Performance score. With Text Language: Czech/German/English. Editio Baerenreiter Praha #H07911_00. Published by Editio Baerenreiter Praha (PA.H07911).

ISBN 9790260104457. 31 x 23.5 cm inches.

Lubos Fiser (1935-1999) was one of the most talented Czech composers of his generation. Born in Prague, he studied at the Prague Conservatoire from 1952-1956 and then at the Academy of Music. He was known to the public for his many film scores but it was his other compositions, many of them written under difficult political conditions, which mark him out as a composer of significance.

Fise r's eight piano sonatas have a special place in his oeuvre. Fiser subsequently eliminated his second sonata (1956) from his compositional repertoire. From the third sonata onwards (1960), subtitled Fantasia, the composer wrote a two-movement composition, in which he continued to incorporate as his fundamental musical device the confrontation of sharp contrasts in tempo and mood. Beginning with his fourth sonata (1962-1964), Fiser created a single-movement work in an expressive, formally focused composition which betrays a progression towards greater compactness of musical shape in a concise yet effective musical testimony. The fifth sonata was written in 1974, the sixth sonata in 1978. The seventh sonata from 1985 was dedicated to Frantisek Maxian, the eighth sonata was written in 1995.

Piano Sonata No.1 was written in 1955. Fiser worked on it during his last year at the Prague Conservatoire under the supervision of Emil Hlobil. The piece is one of Fiser's early works which still respect a traditional compositional approach. Unlike his major and late piano sonatas, this sonata has three movements, each representing the traditional Classical-Romantic form. The sonata was premiered by Fiser's fellow-student and friend Antonin Jemelik in Theatre D34 on 30 January 1956.

The new setting for this piece is based on the single edition to date (SNKLHU, 1957); only with regard to a few inconsistencies in the score was it necessary to consult the composer's manuscript (kept at the National Museum - Czech Museum of Music, acquisition number 297/2006).

Piano

SKU: PA.H07988

Fur Klavier. Composed by Luboš Fišer. Stapled. Performance score. With Text Language: Czech/German/English. Editio Baerenreiter Praha #H07988_00. Published by Editio Baerenreiter Praha (PA.H07988).

ISBN 9790260104471. 31 x 23.5 cm inches.

Piano Sonata No. 4 from the years 1962-1964 is dedicated to the memory of Fiser's friend, the pianist Antonin Jemelik, who died tragically. As a tribute to their friendship the composer incorporated into the introduction a quotation from their favourite work, Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70, by Alexander Scriabin. The tragedy of the death of the composer's friend pervades the emotionally intense passage of unison octaves which follows the three-bar quotation. From a compositional point of view this work is a masterpiece of the mid-Sixties. Written as one movement, the piece is divided into numerous mutually contrasting segments which themselves are clearly grouped into two sections, exposition and development. The individual themes are introduced in the first section and thematically expanded in the second section. The motif treatment lies almost exclusively in the fragmenting or curtailing of the theme, or in the use of a combination of several themes, for the most part brief and eloquent. This compositional method, together with a clear-cut manner of execution, mainly semitonal melody and sharply contrastive dynamics, lends force and transparency to the piece. Piano Sonata No. 4 was completed in 1964 together with Symphonic Fresco, Concerto da camera for piano and orchestra and Fifteen Prints after Durer's Apocalypse and has earned its rightful place alongside them as masterpieces of Fiser's oeuvre.

The work was first performed by Pavel Stepan in Prague's Rudolfinum in 1965. The new setting for this piece is based on the single edition to date (Panton, 1969); only with regard to a few inconsistencies in the score was it necessary to consult the composer's manuscript (kept at the National Museum - Czech Museum of Music).

Piano - intermediate

SKU: HL.50565843

For Piano Four Hands. By Edmond Lemaitre. By Claude Debussy. Editions Durand. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2016. Editions Durand #DD01632000. Published by Editions Durand (HL.50565843).

PNODT inches. English-French.

Thi s critical edition of the Petite Suite is an excerpt from the COMPLETE WORKS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY, Series I, volume 9. The titles of the movements of the Petite Suite, 'Cortege' and 'Ballet', evoke the universe of both the Premiere Suite d'orchestreand Fetes galantes by Paul Verlaine ('Cortege' and 'En bateau'), several poems from which Debussy began to set as early as 1882.The contract that Debussy signed with the editors Durand, Schoenewerk & Cie for the Petite Suite is dated 8 December 1888. The work appeared at the beginning of the following year; the 'depot legal', (legal deposit) of the work, was accomplished on12 February 1889. It is difficult to believe that the Petite Suite, which became one of Durand's bestselling items during the composer's lifetime, was at first not appreciated by those who heard it.

Claude Debussy's Petite Suite for Piano 4-hands.

Cette edition critique de la Petite Suite constitue un tire a part des OEUVRES COMPLETES DE CLAUDE DEBUSSY, Serie I, volume 9. Les titres des mouvements de la Petite Suite, notamment << Cortege >> et << Ballet >>, evoquent aussi bien la Premiere Suited'orchestre que l'univers poetique des Fetes galantes de Paul Verlaine (<< Cortege >>, << En bateau >>) dont Debussy avait mis en musique plusieurs poemes des 1882. L'oeuvre fut cedee a l'editeur Durand, Schoenewerk & Cie le 8 decembre 1888. Elle parutau debut de l'annee suivante, le depot legal ayant ete effectue le 12 fevrier 1889. On a beaucoup de mal a imaginer que la PetiteSuite qui fut une des meilleures ventes de l'editeur Durand du vivant du compositeur fut d'abord boudee par les auditeursqui la decouvrirent.