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Selected Studies for flute 1

Flute

Dohnányi: Essential Finger Exercises

Piano

The three volumes contain 176 studies by 25 composers. The selection was made according to technical usefulness and musical value. The studies follow in order of the grade of difficulty and are…
''In the following exercises, I have endeavoured to collect material in a complete, yet condensed form which should help piano students to acquire reliable playing technique. They are even…

Violoncello Music 1

Violoncello and Piano

Duets for Violin and Violoncello 1

String Duo

ABRSM Syllabus title - Grade 2.

This is a collection of popular classics and European folk tunes arranged for cellists on beginner level. The volumes of the series Music for Beginners cover the…

The volumes of this successful series cover the entire music literature from the earliest centuries to our days. The material of the individual volumes comprises short, easy pieces to be played in…

CLASSICAL CANONS without text

Vocal, Solfege

Selected Studies for flute 2

Flute

From the beginning, this collection was intended to be an organic component to the teaching of solfeggio as well as a supplement. The original texts and their relevant translations have been omitted…
The three volumes contain 176 studies by 25 composers. The selection was made according to technical usefulness and musical value. The studies follow in order of the grade of difficulty and are…

Scarlatti: 200 Sonate per clavicembalo (pianoforte) 2

Piano

Violoncello Music 3

Violoncello and Piano

The sonatas are not grouped according to their degree of difficulty, they are given in the order which corresponds with the Kirkpatrick numbering. This is approximately identical with the order in…
An ABRSM syllabus title - Grades 4,5

This volume comprises 43 short compositions by baroque, classical, and romantic masters. These are intended for the third and fourth years of studies, and…

Bárdos: Cantemus ! (A)

Mixed Voices

Violin Tutor 1

Violin

The composer, choirmaster, musicologist and music educator Lajos Bárdos was born on the 1st of October 1899 in Budapest and studied composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Music Academy in Budapest. As…
Frigyes Sándor (1905-1979), violinist, teacher and conductor. His six-volume Violin tutor was published between 1949 and 1959, and has remained popular ever since. One reason for its popularity - in…

Hanon: The Virtuoso Pianist

Piano

Kodály: Ave Maria

Upper Voices and Accompaniment

''Learning the piano is so widespread these days and good pianists so numerous that mediocrity on the instrument can no longer be accepted. In effect, the piano must be studied for eight or ten years…
At an early age Kodály composed several Ave Marias for various ensembles of performers. In its final form this chorus seems the most complete of these. From the manuscript scores we know that the…

Violoncello Music 2

Violoncello and Piano

Gariboldi: 30 Easy and Progressive Studies for flute

Flute

An ABRSM syllabus title, 2010-16, Grade 2-3

The volumes of the series Music for Beginners cover the entire music literature from the earliest centuries to our days. The contents of the…

The 30 Easy and Progressive Studies for Flute by the Italian composer and flute virtuoso Giuseppe Gariboldi (1833-1905) are among the standard works for flute teaching.

Duets for Violin and Violoncello 2

String Duo

Violoncello Duets 1

Violoncellos

This volume of the successful series Music for Beginners is the continuation of Duets for Violin and Violoncello 1 (Z. 8733). Edited by the excellent teachers Árpád Pejtsik and Lajos Vigh, it…
An ABRSM Syllabus title - Grade 2

The volumes of the series 'Music for Beginners' cover the entire music literature from the earliest centurties to our days. The material of the individual…

Scarlatti: 200 Sonate per clavicembalo (pianoforte) 1

Piano

Kodály: Evening Song

Mixed Voices

The sonatas are not grouped according to their degree of difficulty, they are given in the order which corresponds with the Kirkpatrick numbering. This is approximately identical with the order in…
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Bartók: The First Term at the Piano

Piano

Bárdos: Libera me

Mixed Voices

This volume consisting of 18 pieces contains works composed by Bartók for the Piano Tutor he edited together with Sándor Reschofsky and published in 1913. These little pieces by Bartók were…
The composer, choirmaster, musicologist and music educator Lajos Bárdos was born on the 1st of October 1899 in Budapest and studied composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Music Academy in Budapest. As…

Liszt: Grand Etudes after Paganini

Piano

Kodály: Túrót eszik a cigány

Upper Voices

Liszt would not have become the artist we know, had it not been for Paganini. In turn, Liszt's absence would have made the history of music and musical performance very different. As such, it is safe…
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Tchaikovsky: Nocturne

Violoncello and Piano

Violin Tutor 2

Violin

The series Moments Musicaux contains popular and well-known short masterpieces and transcriptions. An admitted aim of the publisher was to release high-standard editions of these popular pieces for a…
Frigyes Sándor (1905-1979), violinist, teacher and conductor. His six-volume Violin tutor was published between 1949 and 1959, and has remained popular ever since. One reason for its popularity - in…

Vivaldi: 9 Sonate

Violoncello and Piano

Popper: Popular Concert Pieces 1

Violoncello and Piano

Similar to Vivaldi's concertos and compositions for violin, his 9 cello sonatas also bear the mark of a genius of exuberant temperament. Since they belong to the basic repertory of the cello it…
The score contains the original directions of instrumental technique of the composer, on the other hand, the cello part includes the editorial suggestions.

Bárdos: Missa tertia

Mixed Voices and Accompaniment

Wohlfahrt: 60 Studies for Violin

Violin

The composer, choirmaster, musicologist and music educator Lajos Bárdos was born on the 1st of October 1899 in Budapest and studied composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Music Academy in Budapest. As…
Franz Wohlfahrt's Opus 45 is a set of 60 exercises for the Violin student, available here in one complete volume. Originally composed for his own teaching purposes, Wohlfahrt's set of studies has…

Monti: Czardas

Violin and Piano

Marcello: 12 Sonaten 1

Flute and Piano

The Moments Musicaux series offers violinists a wide selection of popular works and movements starting from Bach to compositions of the present day. Among the pieces we find both well-known and…
Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739) published his flute sonatas Op. 2 in 1712 in Venice. This was the first printed sheet music in Italy to prescribe explicity and exclusively the use of the flauto.…

Scale Tutor for flute 1

Flute

Massenet: Thais (Méditation)

Violoncello and Piano

Supplement to the Flute Tutor by Zoltán Jeney - lower grade.
The series Moments Musicaux contains popular and well-known short masterpieces and transcriptions. An admitted aim of the publisher was to release high-standard editions of these popular pieces for a…

Kovács: I Learn to Play the Clarinet 1

Clarinet

111 BICINIA from the 15th century

Vocal

''The two volumes of I Learn to Play the Clarinet (Z.12282 and Z.13291) have been written for beginners and contain the material for the first 3-4 years. It has been avoided to arrange the material…
This volume contains short two-part extracts from choral church music of the 15th century (masses and motets), arranged in ascending order of difficulty. The principal aim of this compilation was…

Bárdos: Dana-dana

Mixed Voices

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumble-Bee

Piano

Liszt: Studies I (Transcendental Études)

Piano

Liszt: La campanella

Piano

The history of Liszt's intensely virtuosic and unwaveringly popular Transcendental Etudes dates back to his 12 Etudes composed around 1826. Liszt later reworked 11 pieces of this…
The third piece from Liszt's Grandes Études de Paganini presents an especially formidable technical challenge to performers. Based on the finale movement of Paganini's Violin Concerto in B minor, La…

Violin Tutor 4/b

Violin

Rachmaninov: Vocalise

Piano

Frigyes Sándor (1905-1979), violinist, teacher and conductor. His six-volume Violin tutor was published between 1949 and 1959, and has remained popular ever since. One reason for its popularity - in…
Vocalise, for soprano (or tenor) voice with piano accompaniment, came into being in 1910 as the final piece in Rachmaninov's Op. 34 song series. Most of the songs were tailored to suit the…

Farkas: Early Hungarian Dances from the 17. century

Wind Quintet

Bárdos: Hej, igazítsad!

Children's Choir

Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000) was one of Hungary's most important 20th-century composers. He studied with Leó Weiner and Albert Siklós at the Academy of Music in Budapest from 1922 to 1927, then…
The composer, choirmaster, musicologist and music educator Lajos Bárdos was born on the 1st of October 1899 in Budapest and studied composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Music Academy in Budapest. As…

Kurtág: Games I

Piano

Liszt: Love's Dream

Piano

The idea of composing 'Games' was suggested by children playing spontaneously, children for whom the piano still means a toy. They experiment with it, caress it, attack it and run their fingers over…
From 1848 to 1850 Liszt wrote three piano pieces that were published at the end of 1850 under the title Liebesträume - 3 Notturnos. The composition reworks three songs written between 1843 and 1850…

Járdányi: Sonatina

Flute and Piano

MUSIC FOR VIOLA III

Viola and piano

Pál Járdányi (1920 - 1966) was one of the most distinguished figures in Hungarian music during the years following the Second World War. He was an innovative researcher in the field of folk music, an…
Gusztáv Szeredi-Saupe (1909-1988) was a violist and teacher. He founded the Hungarian Harp Trio (Anna Molnár - harp, Mária Vermes - violin, Gusztáv Szeredi-Saupe - viola), which operated for more…

Duets for Violin and Viola

String Duo, Violin, Viola

Flute Tutor 1

Flute

The volumes of this successful series cover the entire music literature from the earliest centuries to our days. The material of the individual volumes comprises short, easy pieces to be played…

''In our flute tutor we have tried to allocate the musical and technical content in such a way as to make the path of development smooth and obstacle-free for beginners. This is a Hungarian tutor…

Bloch: Double Stop Tutor for violin I.

Violin

Majkapar: Easy Piano Pieces

Piano

József Bloch (1862-1922) was an outstanding figure in violin pedagogy in Hungary. With his violin method entitled A hegedűjáték és tanítási módszere (Violin Playing and How to Teach it) he provided…
This is a selection from the individual-sounding works written for pedagogical purposes by the popular Soviet Russian composer and pianist (1897-1976). The composer studied and taught in St.…

Liszt: 3 Études de concert

Piano

Kurtág: Transcriptions from Machaut to J. S. Bach

Piano Duet

This edition of the three concert études is the first and only, for which the composer's autograph has been taken into consideration. This allows Liszt's popular piano cycle to be seen in the most…

1-19. for piano four hands

20. for piano six hands

21-27. for two pianos

For György Kurtág, the inspiration that can be drawn from earlier music is particularly important, and he approaches…

Violin Tutor V. 5

Violin

Friss: Violoncello Tutor 1

Violoncello

Frigyes Sándor (1905-1979), violinist, teacher and conductor. His six-volume Violin tutor was published between 1949 and 1959, and has remained popular ever since. One reason for its popularity - in…
Antal Friss (1897-1973) was for many decades the teacher of generations of cellists. After his death, through his Cello Method he became a permanent instructor for those at music school learning the…

Easy Piano Pieces - Bach

Piano

Kurtág: Games VIII

Piano Duet, Pianos (2)

The four composer-sons of Johann Sebastian Bach were figures of decisive importance in the transitional period between the Baroque and Viennese classicism. Around the middle of the 18th century they…
The 8th volume of Kurtág's outstanding piano miniatures includes 16 of his personal musical notes, messages composed between 1982 and 2005. As with the earlier volumes, Kurtág dedicates most of these…

Gariboldi: The First Exercises for the Flute

Flute

Liszt: Consolations (First version and revised version) - Madrigal

Piano

This volume features both the first version of Consolations, a cycle comprising six pieces for piano and compiled by Liszt most likely around 1848-1849, and its second, revised version. The cycle is…

Cello & Piano I

Violoncello and Piano

Double Bass Tutor 1

Double Bass

ABRSM Syllabus title - Grades 5, 6, 8

The two volumes contain a selection from 200 years of music. Eight Baroque sonatas are included, apart from the famous D minor one by Corelli there are…

"In handing over therewith this Part I of my Double-Bass Method to my teacher colleagues and their students I wish to express my belief of having set down an adequate material with a view to the…

Kaleidoscope - Romantic Piano Pieces

Piano

Cello & Piano II

Violoncello and Piano

The special pedagogical value of the character pieces in this volume is enhanced by the fact that they do not make technical demands beyond music school level. Thus, students are introduced to the…
ABRSM Syllabus title - Grades 6, 8

Two volumes entitled Cello Meets Piano, edited and published by Árpád Pejtsik, were issued many years ago by the Könemann Music Budapest. The first edition…

Violoncello Duets 2

Violoncellos

Kodály: Dancing Song

Upper Voices

The fourth violoncello volume of the series Music for Beginners offers beginners who wish to get acquainted with chamber music as well, a selection from the music literature of more than two…
Zoltán Kodály's complete choral works for children's and female voices were published in a new, extended, edition in 2023 (Z. 6724 and Z. 6724A). This volume containing 59 compositions has been…

Liszt: Studies II (Trois Études de Concert, Ab irato, Two Concert-Studies, Paganini-Studies)

Piano

Popper: Popular Concert Pieces 2

Violoncello and Piano

The second volume of the New Liszt Edition, published in 1971, continues the publication of the études. The first volume contained the Transcendental Etudes, while this volume contains several…
The score contains the original directions of instrumental technique of the composer, on the other hand, the cello part includes the editorial suggestions.

Liszt: Two Legends

Piano

Recorder Music 1

Recorder and piano

Among the two legends which can be found in this publication, the first is entitled St. François d'Assise: La prédication aux oiseaux (St. Francis of Assisi Preaching to the Birds). St. Francis…
The present collection has been compiled for descant recorder. This instrument was ousted from use in the age of the Viennese Classics, and it has regained its rights only in the present century.…

Bravissimo!

Piano

Goens: Tarantelle

Violoncello and Piano

This volume offers performance pieces for the more advanced classes in music schools, at the same time allowing a glimpse into the 19th-century music scene. Piano pieces have been arranged from…
The series Moments Musicaux contains popular and well-known short masterpieces and transcriptions. An admitted aim of the publisher was to release high-standard editions of these popular pieces for a…

Dotzauer: 113 Studies 1

Violoncello

Friss: Violoncello Tutor 2

Violoncello

Dotzauer was a trained musician who wrote an opera, symphonies, overtures, a Mass, concertos and chamber music. Of his extensive life-work the abundance of educational compositions has proved to be…
Antal Friss (1897-1973) was for many decades the teacher of generations of cellists. After his death, through his Cello Method he became a permanent instructor for those at music school learning the…

Liszt: Harold en Italie (Berlioz) and other works

Piano

Violin Duets

Violins

Among the works published in Supplementary volume 9 of the New Liszt Edition are several which are extant in fragmentary form only, or which are published here for the first time. As well as Liszt's…

The volumes of this successful series cover the entire music literature from the earliest centuries to our days. The material of the individual volumes comprises short, easy pieces to be played…

Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses - Earlier versions

Piano

Bárdos: Tábortűznél

Mixed Voices

The New Liszt Edition Series I volume 9, published in 1981, contained the final version of the piano cycle Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, consisting of ten movements. Liszt mentioned several…
The composer, choirmaster, musicologist and music educator Lajos Bárdos was born on the 1st of October 1899 in Budapest and studied composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Music Academy in Budapest. As…

Liszt: 2e Ballade

Piano

Sellner: Studies for Oboe

Oboe

After touring Europe from Lisbon to St. Petersburg in the 1840s, Ferenc Liszt settled in Weimar. He abandoned his position as a celebrated virtuoso and took up the post of court Kapellmeister there.…
''Joseph Sellner (1787-1843) was a famous oboe player of his time. In 1825, Sellner published an oboe tutor in three volumes entitled Theoretisch-Praktische Oboen-Schule. Despite the fact that the…

Liszt: Apres une lecture du Dante

Piano

Liszt: Années de Pelerinage, Second year - Italy

Piano

Franz Liszt was barely 20 years old when he first read Dante's Divine Comedy, but it left a lasting impression on him throughout his entire life that only a truly impactful creation can have on the…
The composition of the pieces in Années de pelerinage, Deuxieme année can be linked to Liszt's journey to Italy in 1837-39. Italian art had a great influence on Liszt, and compositions in the volume…

Maestro e scolaro

Piano Duet

Goltermann: Capriccio

Violoncello and Piano

Piano students can most easily get to know and enjoy chamber music through four-hands playing. It is no accident that this volume makes reference to the title of Haydn's famous piece Il maestro e lo…
The series Moments Musicaux contains popular and well-known short masterpieces and transcriptions. An admitted aim of the publisher was to release high-standard editions of these popular pieces for a…

Dancla: Studies for Violin

Violins

Kodály: Ave Maria

Upper Voices

Charles Dancla (1817-1907) is considered to be the last great representative of the French Violin School. He knew, in a special way, how to implement the principle ''no music without technique, no…

Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre

Violin and Piano

Chamber Music for Violoncellos 9

Violoncellos

Volume 9 in the series includes two works by Georg Goltermann (1824-1898) written for four cellos. The first work in the volume is the well-known Ständchen by Schubert, and the last is a…

Járdányi: Sonatina per violoncello e pianoforte

Violoncello and Piano

Papp: 22 Little Piano Pieces

Piano

An ABRSM syllabus title - Grade 7.

Pál Járdányi (1920-1966) was one of Zoltán Kodály's most faithful pupils and followers. At the end of his short career in 1965, he wrote his Sonata for Cello…

Besides being a composer, Lajos Papp (1935-2019) was also an experienced piano pedagogist, whose didactic compositions have been used widely both in Hungary and abroad. In the 1960s, he taught…

Liszt: Five Mephisto Waltzes - Mephisto Polka

Piano

Presto e leggiero

Piano

The Faust story, and Berlioz's Faust compositions, inspired Liszt to write several works. In the first period between 1856-61 he wrote the Faust Symphony and Zwei Episoden aus Lenaus Faust, which…
Music school students can develop their technical skills by means of a ''game'' lasting throughout a year: this volume contains 52 pieces, thus providing an etude for every week of the year. These…

Marcello: 12 Sonaten 2

Flute and Piano

Liszt: Two Concert Studies, Ab irato, Morceau de salon

Piano

An ABRSM syllabus title, 2014-21, Grade 5-6. Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739) published his flute sonatas Op. 2 in 1712 in Venice. This was the first printed sheet music in Italy to prescribe explicity…
The Two Concert Studies, which Liszt composed in 1863 for Grand Theoretical and Practical Piano School by Sigmund Lebert and Ludwig Stark, became rather popular already in his lifetime. Today they…

Vivaldi: Concerto in do minore

Flute and Piano

Recorder ABC

Recorder, Recorder and piano

An ABRSM syllabus title.The source of the present edition of the Recorder Concerto in C minor by Antonio Vivaldi is the Collected Works of Vivaldi edited by Malipiero, published by Ricordi 1953. The…
This systematically constructed tutor was written for the soprano recorder with so-called English (Baroque) fingering. It contains material for the first two or three years of study, offering a…

Bloch: Scale Studies 1

Violin

Bartók: 14 Bagatelles for piano

Piano

József Bloch (1862-1922) was an outstanding figure in violin pedagogy in Hungary. With his violin method entitled A hegedűjáték és tanítási módszere (Violin Playing and How to Teach it) he provided…
''This is one of Bartók's most famous series of piano pieces, whose fame is probably greater than either its popularity with pianists, or the frequency with which it occurs on concert programmes.…