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Whether you have a small ensemble or access to huge performing forces, our catalogue provides a feast for the ears; our clients include major orchestras and broadcasters the world over, as well as a vast number of amateur performers and music theatre societies. Josef Weinberger’s concert catalogue is a wide-ranging one, with works from well-known composers and some treasures from those who are less well-known: Bach, Beethoven, Berg, Hough, Hugues, Patterson, Pert, Schubert, Sullivan, Williamson and Wolf-Ferrari.

Josef Weinberger was Mahler’s first publishing house and our catalogue includes a number of his works as well as his reworkings (or Retuschen) of the works of Beethoven and Schubert, Schumann and Smetana. Our homage to Mahler continues with Colin and David Matthews’ orchestration of a collection of 14 early songs that Mahler never orchestrated. The Weinberger catalogue also has Peter Rose and Anne Conlon’s musicals – African Jigsaw; Arabica; Ocean World; One Sun, One World; Song of Creation and Yanomamo. Written for young voices/school performers, each of the works has an important social theme at its heart! 

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Featured Composers

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Paul Patterson © Josef Weinberger Ltd

Patterson, Paul

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Tchaikowsky, Andre

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Gustav Mahler

Mahler, Gustav

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Stephen Hough (photograph by Grant Hiroshima)

Hough, Stephen

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Lehár, Franz

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Bowen, York

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Williamson, Malcolm

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News

Called To Be Happy

Called To Be Happy

Called To Be Happy, a new cantata by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon for young women seeking to find their way in the world, is written in honour of Mary Ward, a seventeenth-century English woman of courage and steadfast determination. The cantata, written for Narrator, Soloists, SSA Choir and Orchestra, draws parallels between Mary Ward's life experiences and those of young women today, and was first performed by the musicians of Maria Ward-Schule, Mainz (Germany) in March 2022. For more information, visit HERE To receive a free PDF download of the sheet music for the song "We Have Heard…

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Merchant of Venice - Welsh National Opera

The Merchant of Venice - Welsh National Opera

Welsh National Opera will give the much-anticipated UK premiere of André Tchaikowsky's The Merchant of Venice tonight, at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff. Ahead of the premiere, David Poutney describes the opera's journey from forgotten manuscript to fully-fledged, award-winning opera in The Guardian A new documentary about the composer, Rebel of the Keys, will be screened in Cardiff on 21 September. Tickets are available HERE For further details on the opera's UK tour, click HERE

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André Tchaikowsky: Rebel of the Keys

Tchaikowsky's The Merchant of Venice - UK Premiere and film screening

Welsh National Opera gives the UK premiere of André Tchaikowsky's rediscovered opera The Merchant of Venice in Cardiff on 16 September, ahead of a UK tour that will also visit Bristol, Llandudno, Birmingham, Southampton and the Royal Opera House in London. To celebrate the UK premiere, a new documentary about the composer is being screened at Cardiff's Chapter on 21 September. The documentary, Rebel of the Keys, charts the life and times of pianist, composer and ‘enfant-terrible’ Tchaikowsky, mixed with a present-day journey towards the first performance of his opera on the international stage. WATCH:…

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Roald Dahl 100

Roald Dahl 100th anniversary

September 13th 2016 marks 100 years since the birth of the much-loved author Roald Dahl. Amongst a plethora of children's books and other literature, Dahl's perennially popular Revolting Rhymes is one of his most memorable and mischievous, reinventing traditional nursery rhymes in Dahl's own inimitable way. Josef Weinberger is proud to publish a number of concert works by composer Paul Patterson, based on Dahl's Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs. Written for a variety of different ensembles, Paul Patterson's Dahl concert works are sure-fire hits with audiences all over the world. Roald Dahl's LITTLE RED RIDING…

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Josephs Requiem

Wilfred Josephs - Requiem - Recent Release

Wilfred Josephs' REQUIEM was given its premiere at La Scala, Milan in 1963 under the direction of Carlo Maria Giulini. It is a work that has not had many performances around the world, but at the same time it is a work that was, for a time, widely regarded as a very important composition. Scored for solo baritone, string quintet, chorus and orchestra, it is an intensely moving work, especially when one considers the composer's impetus in writing it. Released on Lyrita Recorded Edition, Lyrita's website notes: Still widely regarded as one of Josephs’ most important works, his Requiem Op.39…

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HOUGH NYT

The Loneliest Wilderness - Stephen Hough in conversation

Last September, celebrated pianist and composer Stephen Hough sat down with Jason Lai, the Associate Conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, to talk about The Loneliest Wilderness. You can watch their conversation HERE First performed by the cellist Steven Isserlis and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, The Loneliest Wilderness is a romantic elegy for cello and orchestra, based on a poem by Herbert Read. The orchestral parts for The Loneliest Wilderness are available to hire HERE The Cello/Piano reduction is available on sale HERE

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Cello CD

Hough on Hyperion

Two recent CDs on the Hyperion label have brought the compositional skills of Stephen Hough to the listening public. The Missa Mirabilis and the Sonata for Cello and Piano (Left Hand) - Les Adieux are the two works in question here. The orchestral version of Hough’s Missa Mirabilis received performances by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under the direction of the orchestra’s chief conductor, Andrew Litton last year. The reviews are favourable for both the work and the performance, whilst the Cello Sonata receives no less favourable words from the critics. Both of these performances are in the most…

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RPS Encore Choral 2015

Patterson's Gloria selected for RPS Encore Choral

Paul Patterson's Gloria (Op. 21) is one of seven contemporary gems of British choral music to have been selected for broadcast and live performance across the UK in 2016/17, as part of the Royal Philharmonic Society's ENCORE Choral. ENCORE Choral aims to help re-discover and increase the profile of hidden or 'lost' choral works by some of the UK’s most distinguished composers. The selected works and composers were announced live on BBC Radio 3's 'The Choir' programme on Sunday 28 June 2015. The seven selected works are as follows: Robert Saxton Five motets – written 2003; last performed…

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Patterson Fantasia Harp Wigmore

Patterson premiere at Wigmore Hall

Paul Patterson's Fantasia for Harp and String Quartet (Op. 116a) - first performed at the World Harp Congress in Sydney (July 2014) - will receive its UK premiere on Sunday 21 June at London's Wigmore Hall. Originally commissioned as a test piece for harp and orchestra by the Dutch International Harp Competition, the version for harp and string quartet will be performed by the winner of that competition - Juliana Myslov - and the Sacconi Quartet. For further information, and to book tickets, visit the Wigmore Hall online.

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