Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English
Pages: 96          
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Edvard Grieg
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In 1874 Henrik Ibsen invited Edvard Grieg to compose incidental music for a staged version of his Norwegian verse drama Peer Gynt. The result of this collaboration between Norway’s greatest dramatist and its greatest composer was a set of pieces that have become among the best known and most loved of the late nineteenth century.
Grieg’s complete incidental score to Peer Gynt comprises 22 pieces: it is the two orchestral suites arranged from eight of these pieces that have become staples of the repertoire, with innumerable performances and dozens of recordings. This inexpensive, authoritative edition contains both suites complete, including such concert-hall favorites as “Morning Mood,” “Anitra’s Dance,” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King.”
Musicians and music lovers will appreciate having these favorite scores in one handy volume, and students and scholars will want to have them on hand for the study of Grieg’s melodic and harmonic style and orchestration, as well as for their influence on a wide range of composers, from Debussy to Sibelius.
Reprint of an authoritative edition.

Volume / Series : Full Score
Language: English
Pages: 208
Publisher: Dover Publications
Composer / Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
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Bach’s life was “a searching for all that was best in his art to refine it in the fire of his genius.” — Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Bach’s mastery of rhythm and harmony, inventiveness, and genius for composition produced some of the richest and most beautiful music of all time. Those qualities are strikingly evident in his early concerti, which are among the most recorded and performed works in the baroque repertoire.
This easy-to-read volume reprints, complete and unabridged, the master’s seven complete concerti for solo keyboard and orchestra from the renowned Bach-Gesellschaft edition, still considered the primary source for Bach’s music. Composed in Leipzig (c. 1735), these elegant works are almost completely based on earlier extant or lost concerti by Bach for violin and wind instruments. The concerti reproduced here in full score include Concerto in D Minor (BWV1052), Concerto in E Major (BWV 1053), Concerto in D Major (BWV 1054), Concerto in A Major (BWV 1055), Concerto in F Minor (BWV 1056), Concerto in F Major (BWV 1057), and Concerto in G Minor (BWV 1058).
Musicians, students, and Bach devotees will applaud this clearly printed, wonderfully affordable playing edition of classic compositions by the supreme master of the baroque.
Reprinted from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Werke, Bach-Gesellschaft, 1869.