Foreign Rights Catalogue - Henschel, E.A. Seemann, Koehler & Amelang

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Updated New Edition

Midori

Simply MidoriAutobiography

288 pages

25 coloured and b/w illustrations

13,5 x 21,5 cm

€ 24.90

ISBN 3-89487-464-3

The Japanese violinist Midori had just turned 31 when she cele-

brated her 20th stage anniversary on New Year's Eve 2002: Upon

invitation of Zubin Mehta, the then 11-year-old had made her

magnificent debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

In her unusually candid autobiography, she recalls the time be-

tween these two poles.

‘Midori has written a book − herself, yes. No team, no ghost

writer. And an honest book at that … And as always when Mi-

dori takes up something, she does it very, very thoroughly and

in the end truly well.’

The autobiography of one of the world's leading violinists

A ruthlessly candid report on a life beyond any normality and

on the downsides of a prodigy career

Midori has lately been designated as United Nations Messenger

of Peace

English manuscript availableAll Rights Available except for the languages Japaneseand English

Impressum

Schott Music, Mainz

Compiled: October 2009

Errors excepted.

The prices are indicated in EURO and

subject to change.

They are valid in Germany only.

Prices may vary in other countries.

Place of performance and of execution is

Mainz (Federal Republic of Germany).

Verkehrsnummer: 15765

USt-IdNr. DE 149025549

Contact:

Monika Schnatz

Foreign Rights Manager

mailto: [email protected]

phone: ++49 61 31 24 66 88

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Manuel Brug

Rolando VillazónThe Art of Being a Tenor – A Portrait

160 pages – trade paperback

40 coloured and b/w images

13,5 x 21,5 cm

€ 19.90

ISBN 978-3-89487-626-5

Rolando Villazón is internationally recognized as one of the

leading lyric tenors of our day and has been acclaimed for per-

formances at the most important theatres across the world in-

cluding the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Royal

Opera House Covent Garden, Berlin State Opera, Bavarian

State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma,

Hamburg State Opera, Opéra de Lyon, Opéra de Nice, New

York City Opera and many others. For a lot of people he is the

only legitimate successor of the ‘Three Tenors’ José Carreras,

Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. Both his beaming

voice and his charisma and talent to perform fill opera lovers

from all over the world with enthusiasm. Already starting to be-

come an internationally known star, his participation in La

Traviata at the Salzburg Festival 2005 together with Anna Ne-

trebko made him famous all over the world for good. But al-

ready one and a half years later the Mexican singer had to pay

the price for his merciless self-exploitation: A crisis of his voice,

accompanied by spectacular cancellations, let him fall silent for

six months. In January 2008 he reported back to the stages, ma-

tured and more pensive than before. A stunning comeback as it

seems for now.

Manuel Brug, one of Germany’s most acclaimed opera critics,

follows in his portrait eight not only glamorous years of

Rolando Villazón’s career and lets us have a look into the flam-

boyant world of opera singers and the sometimes really rough

music business.

Important entrances of Rolando Villazón in London, New York,

Rome, Madrid, Amsterdam and Paris in 2009

– Rolando Villazón – the first authorized biography on the most

popular male opera-star

– With photographs from Villazón’s private album and carica-

tures drawn by the singer himself

– By the author of the successful ‘The New Opera Voices’ and

renowned music critic Manuel Brug (Die Welt)

‘Who loves tenors has to read this book!’

Westfälische Rundschau

All Rights Available

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The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (ed.)

Variations With Orchestra125 years of the Berlin Philharmonics

Two volumes of 400 pages each – hardcover in slipcase

Ca. 180 coloured and b/w images

21 x 27 cm

€ 39.90

ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8

– History and facts about ‘the best orchestra in the world’

– The official ‘biography’ of the orchestra including its history

since

1882 and a documentation of all concerts, world premieres and

members of the orchestra

– Special portraits of its famous conductors like Wilhelm

Furtwängler,

Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado or Sir Simon Rattle

– A ‘must-have’ for every fan of classical music!

‘Two splendid volumes!’ STERN

‘A lively description of the Berlin Philharmonics, very affection-

ate but never too subjective.’ Der Tagesspiegel

‘Really a good read!’ Klassik-in-berlin.de

‘A very unique edition about a very unique orchestra.’

Münchner Merkur


Jürgen Otten

The Great Pianists of TodayWith Detailed Dictionary Part

282 pages – hardcover with dust jacket

Ca. 20 b/w images

13,5 x 21,5 cm

€ 24.90

ISBN 978-3-89487-530-5

Berlin music journalist Jürgen Otten, who himself completed

piano studies and who has been observing the international

piano scene for many years, presents in his book the crème de la

crème of today’s globally active pianists. People who are inter-

ested in the art of piano playing, who want to know more about

their favoured pianist and who want to comprehend the listening

experiences of an insightful as well as critical expert will find

numerous suggestions in this book while at the same time being

entertained to the highest degree. A detailed dictionary part with

discographical recommendations is a valuable service not only

for professional listeners but also for the casual listener.

Jürgen Otten, born in 1964, is a trained pianist and works as a

music journalist for numerous well-known newspapers and

magazines. He has significantly contributed to the anniversary

book of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also written

a detailed biographical essay for the Henschel illustrated book

about Herbert von Karajan.

– From Aimard to Zimerman – everything about the most fa-

mous pianists of today

– Highly respected author in the music world

– With valuable discographical recommendations

‘This book is a guide but nevertheless a real good read.’

Literarische Welt

‘The author's enthusiasm is highly contagious so that this book

is never boring.’ Buchjournal


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Thomas Blubacher

‘Is There Anything More BeautifulThan Longing?’Eleonora and Francesco von Mendelssohn


108 b/w images

13,5 x 21,5 cm

€ 29.90

ISBN 978-3-89487-623-4

Eleonora and Francesco von Mendelssohn were known as ‘the

most glamorous siblings of the Weimar Republic’. Born in 1900

and 1901 as direct descendants of the philosopher Moses

Mendelssohn, they soon became notorious in Berlin for their

extravagant appearance, their excessive lifestyle and their

friendships and affairs with some of the great figures of their

time, such as Max Reinhardt, Arturo Toscanini, Vladimir

Horowitz and Gustaf Gründgens. The Mendelssohn siblings

also made a lasting impression on the art world – Francesco as a

musician and theatre director, Eleonora as a celebrated theatre

actress. The takeover of the Nazis put an end to their hitherto

careless way of life: their emigration to the United States proved

to be a dead end for both their professional careers and private

lives.

Thomas Blubacher, born in 1967 in Basel, Switzerland, holds

a doctorate degree in theatre studies. He works as a director at

theatres in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United States

and has published, amongst other books, a monograph on

Gustaf Gründgens. Blubacher has also written articles for news-

papers like Aufbau, DIE ZEIT and Süddeutsche Zeitung and

was the author of several radio features. In 2002 he was writer-

in-residence at the Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades (USA).

– The first biography on the possibly most eccentric members

of the famous German-Jewish Mendelssohn family

– With fascinating anecdotes on various artists of the Weimar

era, such as Max Reinhardt, Vladimir Horowitz or Gustaf

Gründgens

– Introduction to the history of theatre, music and art in the

Weimar Republic

‘A fascinating portrait of two persons and a decade, a real

treasure trove on the Weimar Republic’ Die Welt


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Jo Ann Endicott

Waiting for PinaNotes of a Dancer

128 pages – paperback

Ca. 60 b/w images

13,5 x 21,5 cm

€ 16.90

ISBN 978-3-89487-631-9

Jo Ann Endicott has been a dancer and assistant of Pina Bausch,

founder and artistic director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal, since

the very beginning. Waiting for Pina is Endicott’s very personal

account of her work with Bausch und her famous dance theatre

company. She describes her life as a passionate dancer, wife and

mother in a very humorous and lively way, without omitting the

difficulties and drawbacks of her profession: aging, unemploy-

ment, the exhausting balancing act between work and family,

and the dependence on the company and the choreographer. A

unique look behind the scenes of the Tanztheater Wuppertal by

one of its most distinctive protagonists.

Jo Ann Endicott was born in 1950 in Sydney, Australia. In

1973 she was asked by Pina Bausch to join her newly-founded

dance theatre company in Wuppertal. As a principal dancer she

heavily influenced Bausch’s early pieces. She left the company

in 1987, but returned in 1994 as a guest dancer, rehearsal super-

visor and Bausch’s assistant and has remained in that position

ever since.

– Personal journal of Pina Bausch-star Jo Ann Endicott

– A dancer’s life with all its ups and downs

– With more than 60 photos taken by Gert Weigelt and other

well-known dance photographers

- The author is a native Australian.


Gerald Siegmund

William Forsythe. Thinking in motion

176 pages


17 x 24 cm

€ 12.95

ISBN 978-3-89487-472-8

William Forsythe is one of outstanding choreographers of the

present time. Like only George Balanchine and Merce Cunning-

ham before him, he has developed his own characteristic sensi-

tivity for the dance. With his visually stunning and enthralling

productions which are not afraid of coming into contact with

other arts, he has made the ballet a contemporary art form at the

end of the 20th century which arouses great enthusiasm through-

out the world far beyond the confines of an expert audience.

The present volume covers primarily his 20-year engagement

with the BALLETT FRANKFURT about which he says himself

that it is his ‘life's work’. With a biographical essay of the dance

critic Gerald Siegmund and articles of fellow artists and co-

workers of William Forsythe.

‘Finally, all aspects of the work of this great choreographer have

been reasonably connected to each other so that the depth of his

artistic work can shine. […] William Forsythe – Thinking in mo-

tion is a book that explains to every amateur why this artist is so

exceptional and that will be among the standard works of the

professional dance library.’

MDR Kultur

The first comprehensive portrait of one of the most important

choreographers of the present time at the end of an era:

20 years of Forsythe in Frankfurt – with numerous performance

photos, sketches as well as lists of works and dancers.


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Liane Simmel

Dance Medicine – A Practical ApproachAnatomy, Prevention, Training

288 pages – hardcover

Ca. 250 b/w images

17 x 24 cm

€ 19.90

ISBN 978-3-89487-596-1

Dr. Liane Simmel’s Dance Medicine finally accommodates the

demand for a book that especially appeals to dancers and dance

teachers of all genres. Simmel explains the most important as-

pects of dance medicine and basic medical knowledge relevant

to dancers in a concise and comprehensible way, accompanied

by numerous photos and illustrations. She has developed exer-

cises to make her theoretical knowledge applicable to everyday

problems and gives useful advice on planning training units,

warming up and cooling down, regenerating one’s body and ap-

plying first aid. Dance Medicine also deals with the mental and

physical pitfalls of the profession and how to avoid them, the

importance of a healthy and balanced diet, finding ways to cope

with stress and physical strain and training responsibly in order

to prevent injuries.

Dr. Liane Simmel is director of the Institute for Dance Medi-

cine ‘Fit for Dance’ and a board member of Tanz Medizin

Deutschland e.V., the German Dance Medicine Association.

After having studied dance at the State Conservatory of Music

in Munich and at the Cunningham Studio in New York, she

started working as a dancer and choreographer at theatres all

over Europe. Simmel then decided to study medicine in order to

get to know the dancer’s body inside out. She now works as a li-

censed doctor for dance medicine, osteopathy and spiral dynam-

ics and teaches dance medicine at the Palucca School in

Dresden and numerous other professional dance schools all over

Europe.

– Comprehensible and vividly explained, with lots of practical

tips and tricks and exercises

– 250 photos and anatomical drawings

– Recommended by star choreographer William Forsythe

‘The book every dancer needs to have.’ Ballettanz

‘A full report which reveals all a dancer has to know in a very

comprehensible way.’ TaMed-Magazin

‘I would have liked to have a book like this when I was a profes-

sional dancer.’ Terry Pfeiffer, tanznetz


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Tanzplan Deutschland e.V.

Handbook Contemporary Dance Techniques

304 pages – paperback

2 DVDs

30 b/w images

21 x 27 cm

€ 19.90

In 2005, the German Federal Cultural Foundation initiated

Tanzplan Deutschland, providing it with 12.5 million Euros to

develop a wide range of measures that would ensure the highest

levels of sustainability for dance until 2010. Nine German cities

are part of ‘Tanzplan local’. They provide services ranging from

working with children and young people through the creation of

new dance study programmes, touring guest performance pro-

grammes and interdisciplinary symposia, up to new residencies

for young choreographers. As part of the Tanzplan Educational

Programme, the ‘1st Dance Education Biennale’, involving all

11 state-run dance colleges, was held in HAU/Berlin in the

spring of 2008, which will be followed by a second biennale in

2010 in Essen. Besides, inter-university workshops are organ-

ised, an E-Learning programme at the Salzburg University as

well as the new multimedia project of William Forsythe (‘Syn-

chronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced’) were sup-

ported and recently a research project on the methods of

contemporary dance techniques started, which will result in a

publication.

This publication will be sustained by the most important na-

tional and international dance colleges who are going to exam-

ine the different methods or techniques of modern, post-modern

and contemporary dance (José Limón, Trisha Brown, Joos-

Leeder, Jennifer Muller, Anouk Van Dijk, etc). They follow the

questions:

a) Body image/movement: What is bodily trained?

b)Body concept/ideology: What kind of aesthetics are being

transported?

c) Methodology/didactics: Which concepts of communication

and working practices are taught?

d)Historical context: How can the method or technique be clas-

sified within dance history?

2 DVDs will show examples of basic trainings in all techniques.

Ingo Diehl and Friederike Lampert, the editors in charge, are

both dancers, dance teachers and dance researchers.

– The new standard work on dance techniques

– Indispensable for everybody interested in modern, post-mod-

ern and contemporary dance

- With 2 training DVDs

- English edition (for the German market) will be available in

January 2011.

Co-production possible.


Publication date:

January 2011

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Christiane Hoffmans

BeuysBilder eines Lebens



24 x 30 cm

€ 29.90

ISBN 978-3-86502-199-1

Never had the work of an artist been at-

tacked as fiercely during his lifetime as

that of Joseph Beuys. A lot of legends

have grown up around his person and

his work, legends through which art

historians try to explain his unconven-

tional oeuvre and his character. The au-

thor has verified the truthfulness of

these myths and lets twenty Beuys ex-

perts as well as friends and relatives of

the artist get a word in. The photos of

this illustrated book show Beuys nei-

ther as an artificial character nor as fat

fetishist. They rather show scenes of a

many-faceted artist's life and show him

in private – as a person.

Christiane Hoffmans, born in Aachen

in 1961, is a literary scholar and holds a

Ph.D. in art history. After research proj-

ects in Florence, New York and Berke-

ley, she worked as an arts editor of

‘Bunte’ from 1999. Since 2001 she has

been editor with ‘Welt am Sonntag’,

being in charge of arts and culture in

North-Rhine Westphalia and the inter-

national arts market.

- The life of one of the most important

artists of the post-war era with pho-

tos, some of them previously unpub-

lished

- Snapshots of Beuys at Fluxus hap-

penings, but also with his wife Eva

and his two children having coffee at

home

- Including quotes of Bazon Brock,

Otto Schily and Beuys' taxi driver


Hajo Düchting (editor)

SEEMANN’s BauhausEncyclopaedia


60 coloured and 140 b/w images

17 x 24 cm

€ 35.00

ISBN 978-3-86502-203-5

The Bauhaus was founded 90 years

ago. To mark this anniversary, E. A.

Seemann publishes the first Bauhaus

Encyclopaedia, which brings all topics

of this unique art college together. It

features about 500 entries, which are

connected through systematic refer-

ences. This edition provides informa-

tion on architecture, design, colour,

theatre and educational theory as well

as biographical information on the

Bauhaus teachers and students from

1919 to 1933. Numerous images of

buildings, product designs, stage plays,

paintings, furniture and the Bauhaus

people give a vivid impression of the

phenomenon Bauhaus.

The editor, Hajo Düchting, was born

in 1949. He studied art history, philoso-

phy and archaeology and got his PhD in

1981. Since 1984, he has worked as a

lecturer at different universities. He is

the author of various publications about

Modern Art, didactics of art and the

theory of colour.

– Unrivalled standard reference book

and first encyclopaedia about the

Bauhaus

– More than 276 entries, about 194

artist's biographies and 200 images

– Detailed overview articles are dedi-

cated to the important aspects of the

Bauhaus culture


Christine Fischer-Defoy

Frida KahloThe Private Address Book


72 coloured and 40 b/w images

10,5 x 18 cm

€ 24.90

ISBN 978-3-7338-0367-4

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) was a living

legend. Ever since the movie ‘Frida’

was released in 2002, she has been

known to a broad audience worldwide.

Pablo Picasso, Leo Trotzky, Heinz

Berggruen, André Breton, Tina Modotti

and Georgia O’Keeffe were just a few

of her many admirers.

She immortalized a lot of these names

in her private address book, which is

now released for the first time. It un-

folds the private cosmos of the Mexican

artist before the eyes of the reader. The

abundance of material strikingly shows

how much Frida Kahlo, in spite of her

own hardship, loved life itself and the

people surrounding her – men and

women alike.

The author, Christine Fischer-Defoy,

works in Berlin as an historian, a writer

and a film producer on topics like Nazi

persecution, German resistance and

exile. She has already published the pri-

vate address books of Heinrich Mann,

Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt.

– For the first time, the facsimile of the

original address book owned by

Frida Kahlo – one of the most influ-

ential artists of the 20th century – is

published.

– All entries are clarified through biog-

raphical data and extracts from her

personal correspondence.

– Featuring many private photographs


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