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December 3, 2024

The complete choral works of two important Hungarian composers of the twentieth century, Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, are now available in an expanded and carefully corrected edition. The new edition includes several works or versions of works that have not appeared in print before. The publications have been edited based on standardized editorial principles, with clearly legible musical graphics, and informative prefaces and afterwords.

The new edition of Bartók’s works was prepared on the basis of the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition , edited in the Bartók Archives in Budapest. It includes Hungarian and English translations of the texts, and provides detailed information on issues relating to the performance of the works and the sources.

Kodály's choral works were edited by Péter Erdei, one of the most knowledgeable and expert interpreters of the composer's choruses, with reference to all the sources in the Kodály Archive in Budapest.

The choral oeuvre of both composers is published in three volumes: choral works for mixed voices, for children’s and female voices, and for male voices. The volumes are available in a soft-cover edition, and also in an exclusive clothbound version with gold lettering. The three clothbound volumes can be purchased together in a presentation box at a discount.

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A Panorama of Arias

August 9, 2024
A Panorama of Arias contains a selection of arias from operas, operettas, and oratorical works of the 17th to 19th centuries in original language for those studying singing at beginner and intermediate levels. All arias have new, easy-to-play piano reductions, and some of them even include excerpts from recitatives. The sheet music comes with professional audio recordings of the piano accompaniments and the orchestral accompaniments on authentic instruments.

Guide to Early Keyboard Music

July 2, 2024

This series is intended as a guide to the keyboard music of the 16th to 19th centuries for pupils of the piano and the harpsichord, as well as of other early keyboard instruments. Each volume contains pieces by well-known and lesser-known composers from one country or region.

The main purpose of the series is to extend the repertoire and stylistic knowledge of both pianists and harpsichordists while also presenting fine pieces and typical genres based on original sources. Our edition retains the performance indications of the composers' manuscripts and contemporary editions.

Kodály Zoltán: Choral Works for Children's and Female Voices - Extended and revised edition

January 10, 2024

With his over 130 works for unaccompanied choir Zoltán Kodály laid the foundation of modern Hungarian choral literature.

This volume of works for children's and female voices is an extended and revised edition. Containing a total of 59 compositions, three of which were not included in earlier editions, it is the most complete and most authentic edition of Kodály's choral works for children's and female voices to be published thus far. It has been edited based on uniform principles, contains easy-to-read, first-rate musical scores, and includes an informative Epilogue.

The volume is available both in paperback and clothbound.

Schott Music Group - EMBZ Announcement

August 7, 2023

Hungarian leading sheet music publisher and distributor Editio Musica Budapest Zeneműkiadó (EMBZ) has announced a new distribution deal with German music distributor Schott Music Group, with immediate effect.

For many years EMBZ has been wholesaling the Schott Music Group catalogues (Schott, Boosey and Hawkes, Wiener Urtext, Zimmermann, etc.) in Hungary.

In this new agreement, EMBZ will exclusively distribute them in HungarySlovakia and Romania.

Music dealers can add Schott Music Group titles to their orders from EMBZ, with hundreds of titles in stock.

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