Clear Music Australia

26/07/2024

Voilà: the complete and authoritative edition of César Franck’s works for organ and harmonium. It includes extensive commentaries, facsimiles, rare images of the Franck family, and more.

Email [email protected] to order yours!

21/07/2024

The new Breitkopf Mahler 9

17/07/2024

Fifteen of Gabriel Fauré’s exquisite and most popular art songs are available in the new Centenary Songbook by Edition Peters, marking 100 years since the composer’s death. It includes introductory notes and translations of the texts, and is available in the two versions of medium and high voice.

For more information and ordering, email [email protected]!

12/07/2024

For the 200th anniversary of Bedřich Smetana, Bärenreiter-Verlag has released a collection of piano pieces by Smetana as part of their ongoing series “Easy Piano Pieces and Dances”, which covers a broad range of composers, from Bach all the way to Martinů. This compilation is a great tool for students and Smetana lovers to explore the composer’s style.

Order with us by emailing [email protected]; also visit our new website www.clearmusic.com.au!

03/07/2024

Attention, conductors and Shostakovich fans! Last year, publishers Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski announced the launch of the newly revised editions of all Shostakovich Symphonies. The full scores are released as large format study scores, with the majority already available, and the entire collection set to be completed in 2025, marking the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death. From Symphony No. 1 (the 18-year-old’s “final work of his studies” at the St. Petersburg Conservatory) to his swan song, Symphony No. 15, full of references to past eras and spanning vast emotional states, this epic collection documents the composer’s life, and his explorations of various modern musical styles. More information can be found on the Boosey & Hawkes website.

Order with us by emailing [email protected]!

28/06/2024

Dear friends of Clear Music,

We are excited to announce the launch of our new website - www.clearmusic.com.au! Intended to serve as an information-only website, you may place your orders and send us your enquiries by email on [email protected] – whether you are a conductor, teacher, performer, librarian, an organisation or a school, we can save you hours of research by offering our free research and information service. Visit the ‘sales’ tab on our website to learn more about the 1200+ publishers we know and work with.

We look forward to helping you with all your music enquiries!

The Clear Music Team

We are a specialist supplier of printed music to conductors, orchestras, choirs, opera companies, libraries, ensembles, teachers, schools and performers across Australia, New Zealand and beyond.

04/05/2024

There’s a fascinating story behind Bärenreiter-Verlag’s new edition of Ravel’s justly popular G-major piano concerto (the one for two hands!), which through careful research aims to get as close as possible to what Ravel envisaged.

Here’s more from the publisher: “A variety of sources were consulted for this new edition. The first print of the score, parts and piano reduction as well as a set of proofs used by pianist Marguerite Long to rehearse the work for the premiere served as the main sources. Ravel’s autograph, which was used as the engraver’s copy for the first print, must be considered a secondary source as Ravel later authorised changes during the proofreading process.”

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04/01/2024

Happy New Year from Clear Music Australia!

11/12/2023

Following from our previous post, here is another new Beethovenian release from Bärenreiter-Verlag - the complete collection of his charming Bagatelles, which includes the famous Für Elise. Simply email us your order at [email protected].

According to Bärenreiter:
"This edition brings together all of Beethoven's pieces that he himself associated with the term 'bagatelle', a trifle. The Bagatelles reflect Beethoven's diverse compositional cosmos in miniature and span almost his entire oeuvre from 1801/02 to 1824/25. In terms of playing technique, they range from moderate dexterity to demanding virtuosity."

20/11/2023

What was Beethoven’s Op. 1? Answer: The delightful set of piano trios (available from Clear Music), famous for its combination of Haydnesque classicism and wit, and Beethoven’s already emerging unique musical language, full of energy, innovation and beauty. To order, simply email us at [email protected].

But here’s an interesting story behind the Op. 1 – from Bärenreiter-Verlag:

“Artaria had already published variations on a Mozart aria by Beethoven in 1793 under the highly symbolic opus number 1. However, the composer was not satisfied with this work and ensured that the opus number was transferred to another group of works which appeared in 1795, the three Piano Trios Op.1. His hope that these compositions would be worthy of his 'opus 1' and would make quite some impression was to be fulfilled.”