29 songs from different countries for solo guitar. This edition brings together 29 Christmas carols and songs from a range of musical traditions in carefully crafted arrangements for solo guitar. The collection includes well-known German Christmas carols alongside traditional melodies from Europe and the English-speaking world, including Silent Night, Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming, The First Noel, What Child Is This?, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, Deck the Halls, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. The arrangements are intentionally kept technically accessible and are suitable for beginners as well as early intermediate guitarists. The collection is ideal for guitar instruction, seasonal concerts, and playing at home during Advent and Christmas. A versatile edition that makes an international Christmas repertoire available in approachable, idiomatic arrangements for solo guitar.

This edition contains ten short compositions by Karl Friessnegg for classical guitar instruction. The pieces present a variety of musical characters and tempi, including Andantino, Moderato, Allegro, Allegretto, Andante, Presto, and Grave, introducing young guitarists to fundamental forms of musical expression and contrasting tempos. The compositions are suitable for teaching, student recitals, and music-making at home.

Miniatures by Great Masters brings together a selection of compositions from the classical guitar repertoire of the Classical and Early Romantic periods. The collection includes short, musically rewarding works by Dionisio Aguado, Matteo Carcassi, Anton Diabelli, Joseph Küffner, and Fernando Sor—composers who helped shape the classical guitar repertoire of the early nineteenth century. Suitable for teaching, student recitals, and music-making at home.

14 selected pieces of moderate difficulty for guitar, suitable for study and performance, with fingering and playing instructions. Meister des Gitarrenspiels II presents a versatile selection of nineteenth-century guitar repertoire. The collection brings together works by Anton Diabelli, Ferdinando Carulli, Fernando Sor, Napoléon Coste, François Molino, Luigi Legnani, Mauro Giuliani and Matteo Carcassi, extending through to Francisco Tárrega. Lyrical movements, graceful minuets, rondos, preludes and études reflect the stylistic diversity of the period and explore the many facets of guitar playing. Alongside key figures of the classical guitar tradition, the collection also features less frequently performed works that offer rewarding additions to the repertoire. The selection is equally suited to teaching and study, as well as to individual repertoire development, providing engaging music that combines expressive qualities with a range of technical challenges.

15 selected pieces of moderate difficulty for guitar, suitable for study and performance, with fingering and playing instructions. Meister des Gitarrenspiels I presents a diverse selection of works from the guitar repertoire of the early and mid-nineteenth century. The volume brings together music by Fernando Sor, Ferdinando Carulli, Dionisio Aguado, Matteo Carcassi, Francesco Molino, Mauro Giuliani, Anton Diabelli, and Johann Kaspar Mertz. Preludes and studies stand alongside lyrical pieces, minuets, waltzes, Ländler, rondos, and allegro movements. Together, these works offer a vivid impression of the stylistic richness of the period and reveal the many facets of nineteenth-century classical guitar playing. Suitable for teaching, study, and the development of a personal repertoire, this volume combines musical expressiveness with varied technical demands and provides a representative introduction to the classical guitar repertoire of the nineteenth century.

Old Masters of the 17th Century for Guitar presents a distinguished selection of Baroque masterpieces in idiomatic guitar arrangements by Luise Walker . Drawing on lute, guitar, keyboard, violin and orchestral repertoire, the edition introduces works by Johann Anton Count Losy von Losinthal, Robert de Visée, Ludovico Roncalli, George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Arcangelo Corelli, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Giuseppe Antonio Vincenzo Aldrovandini. At the heart of the collection are Losy’s complete Partita in D major and de Visée’s Suite in D minor , complemented by selected sarabandes, menuets, bourrées, gigues, preludes and other characteristic Baroque dance movements. The carefully crafted arrangements preserve the stylistic character of the original sources while making this important repertoire accessible to the classical guitar. A valuable edition for teaching, study and concert performance, offering an authentic introduction to seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century music for solo guitar. The selected works are predominantly arranged for solo guitar , while the two concluding works have been arranged by Luise Walker for two guitars .

Der junge Gitarre-Solist ( The Young Guitar Soloist) , edited by Luise Walker, is a collection of short, melodic pieces for solo guitar from different historical periods, intended for both teaching and performance. The edition was published in the “Musik für die Gitarre” series and includes works and arrangements by composers such as Heinrich Marschner, Anton Diabelli, Napoléon Coste, Fernando Sor, Mauro Giuliani and Niccolò Paganini, as well as Ferdinand Rebay and Wilhelm Nisters. The selection encompasses a variety of musical forms and characters, including bagatelles, preludes, rondos, minuets, studies, a capriccio, a sarabande, a habanera and variations. Contemporary specialist criticism praised Walker’s “excellent arrangements and compilation” of the pieces. The publisher rates the current edition as easy to intermediate, making it suitable for guitar students developing their technical and musical skills.

Fridolin sings and plays: With sometimes cheeky, sometimes contemplative songs, he makes his vocal chords and the six strings of his guitar vibrate. Anyone who joins him will find additional playing material for all levels of beginners' lessons, from the first stroke of empty strings to reaching two-part playing. Intended primarily for younger players, the pieces are suitable for consolidating the respective learning levels. Content: - Glockenklang - Es brennt - In dem dunklen Winterwald - Schreihälse - Gleich, gleich, gleich - Gockelalarm - Drachenflug - Der Komet - Kuckuck - Meine arme Nase - Zum Geburtstag - In der Hexenküche - Heja hoh - Liebe Mutter - Im Spukhaus - Abendlied - Unser Katz hat Katzerln g’habt - Der Kuckuck und der Esel - Der Gartenzwerg - Müll fressen - Fünf Berliner wollten mal - Brumm, brumm, brumm - Laurentia, liebe Laurentia mein - Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken - Die Straßenbahn ist rappelvoll - Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass - Der Elefant ist meistens dick - Fasten ist doof - Ich lieb’ die Blumen - Ich wohnte einst im Tintenfass

The movements are intended to give beginners the opportunity to play the melodies of Christmas carols in two parts with very easy lower parts consisting mainly of empty strings. The songs can also be played with the following instruments: 1. 3 fiddles 2. 2 violins and a viola (or cello) 3. Melody: treble fiddle, bass fiddle, violin, viola plus a second guitar

These Christmas carols for guitar are easily arranged to enable many (and also very young) guitarists to practise them. Guitar students who have only been playing for a short time will find very easily set songs in the second part of the book in the second position (most of which can also be played in the first position). All songs can also be played with two guitars, as they are all set in two parts. In addition, melodies (played or sung) can also be accompanied with the chords given. The pieces are also available individually as pdf files. Click on the drop-down menu under “Output (please select)” Content: I. position Alle Jahre wieder Am Weihnachtsbaum Es kommt ein Schiff geladen Heiligste Nacht Ihr Kinderlein kommet In dulci jubilo Jingle Bells Joseph, lieber Joseph mein Kling, Glöckchen, klingelingeling Komm, wir geh'n nach Bethlehem Kommet, ihr Hirten Lasst uns das Kindlein wiegen Lasst uns froh und munter sein Leise rieselt der Schnee Maria durch ein Dornwald ging Morgen, Kinder, wirds was geben Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann O du fröhliche, o du selige O Tannenbaum Schneeflöckchen, Weißröckchen Still, still, still Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht Was soll das bedeuten Zu Bethlehem geboren II. position (slightly set) Alle Jahre wieder Am Weihnachtsbaum Ihr Kinderlein kommet Lasst uns froh und munter sein Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann Schneeflöckchen, Weißröckchen Was soll das bedeuten