INTRODUCING
ARTARIA EDITIONS “Handsome and useful editions with impressive quality of production, concise and informative introductions, with elegant and clear presentation.”
Dr. Allan Badley
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de SaintGeorges, the son of a French planter in Guadeloupe and a slave of Senegalese origin, was a violinist, composer, soldier and fencer. Like the music of many composers of his time, Saint-Georges’s works fell into obscurity but the man himself was not forgotten. There has never been a better time to discover his works through our new editions and recordings. The Artaria Editions catalogue contains violin concertos, string quartets and orchestral works.
The Artaria Editions catalogue contains works by the composers shown on this page, as well as works by Franz Beck, Franz Xaver Dussek, Leopold Hofmann Johann Baptist Wanhal and many others.
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel was one of Europe’s finest pianist-composers, who had a very close personal relationship to Mozart. His small but important corpus of sacred works belongs to a period of unparalleled richness in the history of church music. We present among other works an edition by Allan Badley of Hummel’s Te Deum in D major, which recalls all the brilliance and verve of Haydn’s work of the same name from 1799.
Joseph Martin Kraus
François Devienne
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As head of the Artaria Editions editorial team and a specialist in late 18th-century Viennese music, Allan Badley has steered the edition since its new beginnings in 1995. His career as an editor followed on from his research into the development of the Viennese symphonic style at the University of Auckland.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Joseph Martin Kraus is often referred to as the ‘Swedish Mozart’ both on the grounds of his undoubted musical genius and his employment at the brilliant court of Gustav III in Stockholm. Our new editions of music by Joseph Martin Kraus contain the rediscovery of three substantial viola concertos, previously attributed to the composer Hoffstetteter, but now known to have been composed by Kraus.
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The beautiful and fascinating repertoire from the age of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven enlarges our concept of the period and performers will welcome these new ideas from the Classical era that will appeal to audiences looking for something new but familiar.
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges © HNH International Ltd
Artaria Editions was founded in 1995 to bring the music of the Viennese 18th century back to life with high-quality sheet music editions for performance.
FEATURED COMPOSERS FROM THE ARTARIA EDITIONS CATALOGUE
François Devienne, one of the leading flute virtuosi of his generation, was also a prolific and successful composer particularly of works for wind instruments. Unsurprisingly, he wrote an important corpus of music for flute including a dozen flute concertos all of which were published in his lifetime. Artaria Editions presents performance material for 12 flute concertos.
For more information, visit artaria.com. Performance material is available through Schott Music.