Sarasate's concert career began at age 17 after he was awarded the coveted Premier Prix from the Paris Conservatoire for both violin and composition. After his London debut, playwright and music critic
Contents: Jascha Heifetz: Three Cadenzas to the Beethoven Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major op.61. Critical Urtext Edition Edited by Endre Granat (after Auer and Joachim); Ludwig van Beethoven:
A critical performance edition of Tchaikovsky's complete works for solo violin, including Andante Funebre, Op. 30; Humoresque, Op. 10/2; Meditation, Op. 42/1; Melody, Op. 42/3; Scherzo, Op. 42/2,
Edited by Endre Granat. Fingerings and bowings by Jascha Heifetz. For violin & orchestra. Urtext Edition. Preface by the editor. Facsimile plates. Heifetz premiered Korngold's Concerto in 1947. This
This edition contains brilliant examples of blending elements of folklore with classical composition technique by two Czech masters. The volume includes Bedrich Smetana's From My Homeland and Mazurek by
Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen had its first performance in Paris in 1875. In the audience was 17-year-old Hungarian violin virtuoso and budding composer Jeno Hubay. After the performance, Hubay started
Einstein was a violinist all his life. In the motion picture Einstein's Light, filmmaker Nickolas Barris and composer Bruce Adolphe set out to communicate Einstein's dedication to the violin and
Edited by Endre Granat. For violin & piano. Critical Urtext Edition, based on the composer's manuscript, the first
The idea for The Heifetz Scale Book is to present all of the great master violinist Jascha Heifetz's scale routines that were developed over his long career but never written down. This edition by
Edited by Endre Granat. For violin
Henri Wieniawski, the Polish-born violin virtuoso, chamber musician, composer, and pedagogue was admitted into Lambert Massart's violin class at the Paris Conservatoire at age eight. In 1850, he received
Transcribed by Matthieu Cognet. For solo piano. First printing. The editor integrates Ravel's own piano realizations of La Valse, originally conceived as a ballet for orchestra, into an idiomatic
When the great Belgian violin virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe tried to commission a violin concerto, Chausson declined and suggested a one-movement work, Poème, Op 25. (1896). The premiere took
Edited by Endre Granat. For violin & piano. Critical Urtext Edition. This edition corrects obvious misprints while
A collection of eight piano classics by Frederic Chopin and Claude Debussy, masterfully
Also known as Variations on a Theme of Corelli, this book is widely considered the first great method for violin. Aside from being invaluable to the development of technique, the variations, which
Concertmaster solos in Tchaikovsky's music take a prominent place. His third and fourth Suite (Mozartiana) and the second movement of the Piano Concerto No. 2 feature the solo violin. In the Imperial Ballet
Two works by Paganini: La Campanella and Moto Perpetuo.
Wieniawski's specialties as violin virtuoso are represented in both the Capriccio-Valse and the Variations on an Original Theme. Technical demands include sustaining triple