Jochen Reutter

The so-called Moonlight Sonata is probably the best known of all of Beethoven's piano sonatas, and one should think that all that can be said about this work has already been said. But far from it! Ev...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's works for violin and harpsichord obbligato pervade his entire compositional oeuvre. The earliest works, like the Sonata in D minor still numbered BWV 1036, date back to the...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's works for violin and harpsichord obbligato pervade his entire compositional oeuvre. The earliest works, like the Sonata in D minor still numbered BWV 1036, date back to the...

Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos is one of the key works of 20th-century piano music. The repertoire comprises educational pieces 'from the very first beginning' as well as concert literature, thus making th...

Thanks to its programmatic subtitle, ‘The Rage over a Lost Penny', which was not by the composer, Beethoven's Rondo ‘Alla ingharese quasi un Capriccio' became one of his most famous piano pieces. Beet...

In 2009 a previously unknown manuscript of an album leaf for piano by Robert Schumann was found in the Leopold Sophien Library of Überlingen. The little piano piece, entitled 'Ahnung', had been given...

The Sonatina in G major (Anh. 5/1) is probably the first encounter with Beethoven's piano music for many budding pianists. Yet one cannot even be sure whether it, like its sister work in F major (Anh....

Franz Schubert's scherzos were right at the beginning of a development that, in the course of the 19th century, resulted in the separation of the scherzo from the sonata and its emancipation as an ind...

In addition to sonatas and variation works, Ludwig van Beethoven also left behind a considerable number of individual pieces for piano. They range from larger works such as 'Die Wuth über den verlorne...

Wiener Urtext Edition presents a previously unknown and unpublished piano piece by Beethoven, which was discovered in 2020 during research in the Vienna City Hall Library. The work is notated on a dou...

Béla Bartók crowned his Mikrokosmos published in 1940 with Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm. On the one hand, they reflect manifold influences of Balkan folk music on the composer's oeuvre and, on the o...

Only few pieces have ever won over the audience and haunted their composer as much as Rakhmaninov's Prélude in C sharp minor. The composer virtually complained that 'people want to have it played all...

It is not only Beethoven's most famous piano piece, but also one of the most famous musical works of all, the piano piece 'Für Elise'. The fact that experts are still puzzling over who might be behind...

Ludwig van Beethoven left us 35 piano sonatas actually. The three sonatas from his days in Bonn, published in 1783, do not have an opus number and therefore do not appear in the canon of 32 sonatas. H...

The newly revised edition of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas in the Wiener Urtext Edition is the only one of the more recent Urtext editions to be based on a broad range of sources. It includes n...

The newly revised edition of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas in the Wiener Urtext Edition is the only one of the more recent Urtext editions to be based on a broad range of sources. It includes n...

Volume 3 of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas in Wiener Urtext Edition contains the Sonatas Op. 78, 79, 81a, 90, 101, 106, 109, 110, and 111. The re-revised musical text is based on several newly accessed sou...

Beethoven's Sonata op. 10/1 was composed over a lengthy period from 1795 to 1798, during which the composer vacillated between four and three movements for a long time. Beethoven had considered two pi...

Like its C minor sister op. 10/1, Beethoven's Sonata in F major op. 10/2 is one of the most frequently played works in piano lessons and piano studies. In contrast to the darker and brusque tones of o...

200 years ago, in the late autumn of 1817, Beethoven began the first sketches for the most monumental of his piano sonatas, the Hammerklavier Sonata op. 106. In the fall of 2017, Wiener Urtext Edition...

Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C major op. 53, known as the Waldstein Sonata, is one of the highlights of all piano music. The large-scale work was originally far more expansive with its extensive Andant...

Beethoven’s Sonata Les Adieux is the composer’s only piano sonata with a programmatic background. The reason for its creation was the so-called 5th coalition war, in which Napoleon’s army invaded Aust...

Beethoven himself called the composition Sonate facile oder Sonatine. Although comparatively easier to play than most of his piano sonatas, it shows all the "typical" stylistic elements, such as surpr...

Several times in his life Beethoven dealt with the Bagatelle genre. These charming, profound miniatures demonstrate Beethoven's extraordinary ability to compactly express complex compositional ideas....

Franz Xaver Richter (1709-1789) is one of the most important representatives of what is known as the Mannheim School, a style that influenced not only Mozart, but also the young Beethoven and even som...