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It is one of the most beloved violin concertos of all time – and a work with an unusual backstory. A new version of the Violin Concerto in D minor will be premiered on 30 August 2025 in Lüneburg, near Hamburg, at the final concert of the International Masterclass for Conductors Hamburg 2025.

Delve into Dobrinka Tabakova's "Suite in Old Style," a piece that bridges modern and Baroque sounds. Learn more about the composer and the upcoming Czech premiere.

Les Contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach premieres on January 20 in Strasbourg. Learn more about the work and the new production in our Work of the Week!

George Gershwin’s An American in Paris captures 1920s Paris. Celebrate New Year’s with this masterpiece and explore Ira Gershwin’s travel diary!

Shipwreck at the airport: Hans Werner Henze's oratorio Das Floß der Medusa (‘The Raft of the Medusa’) opens the new season at the Komische Oper Berlin. In Hangar 1 of Tempelhof Airport, Tobias Kratzer stages the great question of humanity, which revolves around the calculated drowning of underprivileged people on the high seas. The premiere will take place on September 16, 2023 under the musical direction of Titus Engel.

300 years of Bach in Leipzig and 50 years of Widmann! The new work Kantate by Jörg Widmann will be premiered in Leipzig on 08 June 2023 with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Tomanerchor in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. In the opening concert of the Bach Festival Leipzig, Andreas Reize, Johann Sebastian Bach's 18th successor as Thomaskantor, will take over the musical direction.

Olli Mustonen’s Concerto No. 2 "Larin Paraske" is a musical portrait of the renowned Finnish rune singer Larin Paraske. Blending dreamlike sounds with tradition, the violin concerto premieres on December 6, 2024, in Helsinki. Want to discover how Mustonen transformed ancient rune singing into a modern masterpiece? Read the full story in our Work of the Week!

For over 130 years, the BBC Proms has curated phenomenal musical programmes for diverse audiences through its iconic summer concert series at the Royal Albert Hall in London. What began as a series of affordable “promenade” concerts has grown into a prestigious platform for live orchestral music and contemporary works.

Spanning eight weeks, this year’s Proms (18 July – 13 September 2025) features several acclaimed composers from the Schott Music roster, from 20th-century masters to some of the most distinctive voices composing today. In this blog, we shine a light on those composers, share fascinating facts about their work, and offer listening links so you can enjoy their music wherever you are.

The composer and conductor Peter Eötvös has died in Budapest on 24 March 2024 at the age of 80. This was announced by his family on Sunday. With his death, the music world has lost one of the most frequently performed opera composers of our time.