Camille Saint-Saëns was always trying to expand the rather sparse repertoire for chamber music for wind instruments, something that is not least also shown by his three late wind sonatas for oboe, cla...
Based on the Prélude in c sharp minor Op. 3 No. 2 written in 1892 that quickly became world-famous, Rachmaninoff composed a further two collections of Préludes in the years up to 1910. These were also...
With his Études-Tableaux, Rachmaninoff continued along the path that Chopin and Liszt had set with their concert etudes: the most demanding technical tasks are presented in the form of expressive char...
A precious gem of romantic viola literature is now available in Henle quality! Thanks to the publisher's good connections to Russian archives, we were able to assess Glazunov's autograph for the first...
These two Aequali for three trombones are really works of Bruckner's youth, for he was only 22 years old when he composed them for the funeral of his great-aunt in January 1847. He was at that time a...
Possibly the most famous late Romantic piano work and now finally also available in Henle Urtext! First published in 1892 as part of the piano cycle 'Morceaux de Fantaisie' op. 3, the work also soon b...
As indestructible as Rachmaninoff's c-sharp-minor Prélude (HN1211) may be, it is not his only Prélude to have begun a 'solo career' of its own: with its rousing rhythms and rhapsodic middle section, t...
Rachmaninoff's legendary Opus 18, often lovingly referred to as 'Rach 2,' is for many the epitome of the Romantic piano concerto. Following its acclaimed premiere in Moscow in 1901, it proved to be a...
Sergei Rachmaninoff embarked on his compositional career with five short piano pieces, which he presented for the first time in December 1892 in a concert in Charkow (now Kharkiv). The second piece, w...
The epochal piano virtuoso Liszt made numerous transcriptions for his instrument of works by other composers - Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, a key nineteenth century work, naturally numbered amongst th...
Very few really important works have been written for piano quintet - alongside the famous works by Schubert, Schumann und Brahms, the quintet that Antonín Dvorák composed in 1887 certainly numbers am...
Fingering: Klaus Schilde With part for clarinet in B flat/A Alexander Zemlinsky is mainly known for his operas and orchestral songs with their opulent late Romantic orchestration. His earlier, inspire...
Camille Saint-Saëns composed his two Romances for Horn for two of the most respected French horn players of the time: Opus 67 in E major from 1866 is dedicated to Henri Chaussier; Opus 36 in F major f...
Paul Dukas wrote his Villanelle as a demanding exam piece for the horn class of the Paris Conservatoire in 1906. The title, referencing a cheerful traditional vocal genre that originated in 16th centu...
> For horn in F > First Urtext edition > Glazunov's autograph consulted for the first time in St. Petersburg > Highly Romantic work > Effective recital piece, even for advanced pupils > Fingering: Kla...
Alongside weighty chamber music works such as piano quartets and violin sonatas, Gabriel Fauré also wrote several charming miniatures for violin and piano. Among these is his Berceuse op. 16 in D majo...
Dont, Kreutzer, Rode: three of the most prominent violin pedagogues of the nineteenth century are united here in one volume. At the outset of the nineteenth century, Rodolphe Kreutzer and Pierre Rode...
The horn is surely the most 'romantic' of instruments, and it is a well-known fact that it plays a prominent role in Weber's oeuvre. Der Freischütz and Oberon would be unthinkable without their horn c...
Similar to Schumann's 'Concert Piece for Four Horns' op. 86 (HN 1138), Saint-Saëns' 'Morceau de Concert' was also written with the idea of exhausting the technical possibilities of a new valve horn co...
In the summer of 1888, while also working on his tone poem Don Juan, Richard Strauss composed this brief Andante for his father, Franz Strauss, a member of the Munich Court Opera and one of the greate...
One of the best-loved trumpet concertos today is actually a horn concerto: Neruda composed it in about 1750 at the Dresden Court, where he met the greatest horn virtuosos of the day. As a result, the...
Scriabin is mainly known for his mystic-visionary piano works today; but his Romance for horn, which he composed at a young age, is also a charming chamber music work. The technically not very demandi...
The Dane Carl Nielsen was one of the most original composers at the turn of the 20th century. Based on the German Romantic tradition he developed his own musical language, especially in his symphonies...
Rachmaninoff composed his collection of 13 songs op. 34 in 1912, but it was only three years later that he added a little closing piece without any text: the Vocalise, which soon outshone the other so...
Rachmaninoff's Prélude in D major from his op. 23 collection is a wonderfully dreamy nocturne in the style of Chopin. The engaging immediacy of its poetic magic and the fact that it is only moderately...
Sergei Rachmaninov's second book of Préludes, op. 32, was written in the summer of 1910 at his family's idyllic country house in Ivanovka. This sleepy, rural area inspired the composer to this wonderf...
Fingering: Marc-André Hamelin Amongst the pieces in Rachmaninoff's 24 Préludes there are three that are particularly popular. These are now all available as single editions: Having already published t...
Finally, G. Henle Publishers is able to offer one of Rachmaninov's most important, most substantial piano works in a meticulous Urtext edition that does justice to the work and to the editorial diffic...
Fingering: Marc-André Hamelin Between 1914 and 1917, Sergei Rachmaninoff published two volumes of Études-Tableaux - a term coined by the composer with which he succeeded in expressing the blend of tec...
Alongside HN1264 (the Etude in e flat minor op. 39,5), we are now offering the Etude in C major in a single edition, taken from our much-loved complete edition of the 17 Études-Tableaux. Rachmaninoff...
The large and technically demanding G major Sonata was composed two years before Schubert's death in October 1826 and is one of only three piano sonatas that appeared in print during his lifetime. The...
It is a matter of personal taste as to whether Rachmaninoff's second or third piano concerto is his best. But there is no doubt that 'Rach 3', with its abundance of melodic ideas, today numbers among...
This cycle of six piano pieces was composed in 1896, just four years after Rachmaninov had completed his studies at the Moscow Conservatory, and it already shows signs of the mature master he would be...
With his Études-Tableaux Rachmaninoff continued down the path that Chopin and Liszt had already set out on with their concert etudes: the most demanding technical tasks are presented in the form of ex...
In Schubert's cheerful E flat major Sonata, the listener is unaware that the composer struggled for a long time to arrive at its final version. Initial sketches date back to 1817, then still in a thre...
The B major Sonata numbers among Schubert's early piano sonatas. Composed in August 1817, it was not published until long after his death. The unusual key (for its time) shows the young Schubert's del...
When Dvořák wrote his Serenade for 10 winds and 2 lower strings in January 1878, the heyday of the great wind serenades and 'Harmoniemusik' wind ensembles was already long gone. He was probably inspir...
Große Linien, eingängige Melodien und romantische Klänge prägen das legendäre Zweite Klavierkonzert von Rachmaninow. Der Komponist spielte die Uraufführung im Oktober 1901 in Moskau selber. Schnell ge...
Alexandre Guilmant was one of the greatest representatives of the French Romantic organ school, and composed almost exclusively for his instrument. A rare exception is this 'Morceau symphonique', writ...
As concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for many decades, violin virtuoso Ferdinand David was a close friend of Felix Mendelssohn, who wrote his famous Violin Concerto for him. David was...
Alexander Zemlinsky's music was long unjustly overshadowed by what was regarded as the 'more progressive' Second Viennese School. Although Zemlinsky was close friends with its protagonist Arnold Schön...
Tchaikovsky spent the summer and autumn of 1880 at his sister’s country estate in Kam’ianka, Ukraine, where he sought peace and relaxation. But after a short time the desire to work took hold of him a...
The Viennese Jakob Dont is considered one of the most important violin pedagogues of the nineteenth century and wrote numerous study pieces that are indispensable classics of the pedagogical literatur...
