Cantata for the 1st Easter Day. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Study score format 22. 5 x 16. 5cm Der Himmel Lacht! Die Erde Jubilieret BWV 31 (The Heavens laugh, the earth exults in gladness) BWV 31 Cantata for the 1st Easter Day - Performance material (BA10031), vocal score (BA10031-90) and study score (TP1031) available for sale. The text, by Salomon Franck who was the librettist of some of Bach 's…

Par KOWALCHYK GAYLE. A valuable assortment of teacher/student duets in their original form written by teachers and composers during the 18th and 19th centuries. Arranged in order of difficulty, the student parts are limited to a single five-finger position and fall primarily within the grand staff reading range. Each book includes works by such composers as Diabelli, Gurlitt, Bercucci, Wohlfahrt, …

Breitkopf Urtext für Flöte und Cembalo / for Flute and Harpsichord. Par BACH CARL PHILIPP EMMANUEL. These Sonatas for flute and harpsichord obbligato (Wq 83 - 86) were written in Potsdam between 1745 and 1755, while C. P. E. Bach was in the service of King Frederick II of Prussia. The sonatas also exist in genuine trio Sonata versions. In our present version, the right hand of the harpsichordist t…

Par OFFENBACH JACQUES. This is the last of nearly 100 operettas created by French composer Jacques Offenbach, a native of Germany whose works were most prominent in the latter half of the nineteenth century. His three-act drama Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), which includes a prologue and epilogue, recounts dramatic stories of passion, murder, and revenge. Left incomplete at the com…

Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Christopher Hogwood's first ever critical edition of the much performed concert overture goes back for the first time to all the sources. Hogwood examines not only Mendelssohn's autograph but also the first edition of the score and orchestral parts which Mendelssohn saw to print. A manuscript copy with additional music thought to have been performed under Mendelsso…

Par BUXTEHUDE DIETRICH. Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was organist of the St Marien church in Lübeck from 1668 until his death. He wrote many works for specific secular occasions, feasts and celebrations etc. and although his positon did not require him to compose vocal music he left over 120 vocal works in a wide range of scorings, style and length. Almost all texts are sacred and scorings vary …

Cantata for Trinity Sunday. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding BWV 176 Cantata for Trinity Sunday This cantata for Trinity Sunday is the first of two such extant cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach after his Leipzig appointment in 1723. This cantata is also the last in a group of nine for successive post-paschal feasts composed by Bach, apparently within a few we…

Par DRUMM SIEGFRIED / ALEXANDRE JEAN FRANCOIS. Musical Training in the Orchestra The authors have devised - with help from instrumental teachers - a method that is a tool both lively and amusing for children, and as precise as possible for teachers, while letting them teach according to their personal musical style. Some of the advantages of musical training in the orchestra: - a much clearer an…

Handel's opera Lotario was first heard at the King's Theater in the Haymarket on 2 December 1729 and had a run of nine performances. Though never revived in the composer's lifetime, Handel reused many of its arias in his later operas, sometimes altering the words.The historical background of the plot is the conflict between Otto I (912-973) and Berengar of Ivrea for the Italian crown and Otto's ma…