Jonathan Del Mar

'Here's a sonata that will challenge pianists and that one will be able to play in 50 years': thus Beethoven is said to have written to his publisher Artaria regarding his mighty 'Hammerklavier' Sonat...

Here you have a sonata that will give pianists a hard time, one that will be played in 50 years' time, Beethoven is said to have written to the publisher Artaria about his enormous Sonata in B flat ma...

The Sonata op. 101 has an unusually long history of composition. Beethoven's earliest sketches date from 1815. The first edition of the "Difficult to Exegetate Sonata in A", as Beethoven called it, wa...

Due to serious illness, Beethoven was only able to begin composing the Sonata in A flat major op. 110, the second work in his late trio of sonatas, over a year after the first. The first sketches date...

> New critical performing editions at the cutting edge of scholarship > Optimum page-turns > Introductions with valuable notes on historical performance practice (Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentaries (E...

In October 1801, Beethoven offered the Vienna Art and Industry Comptoir a "large sonata for forte piano". His Sonata in D major, published the following year, has been inextricably linked with this ep...

In a letter to Breitkopf & Härtel, Beethoven described the little sonata op. 79 as a "Sonate facile" or "Sonatine". It is an indispensable part of piano lessons for advanced beginners. The creation of...

Alongside the Urtext edition of Beethoven's 35 piano sonatas which sets new standards for the 21st century, world-renowned Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar presents a Critical Commentary to this body...

Following the Urtext edition of all 35 of Beethoven's piano sonatas, which set new standards for the 21st century, Jonathan Del Mar, a world-renowned expert on Beethoven's music and its sources, prese...

Following the critically acclaimed publication of the 35 Piano Sonatas in separate editions, Bärenreiter now presents Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas in three volumes. This edition, which is unpara...

Following the critically acclaimed publication of the 35 Piano Sonatas in separate editions, Bärenreiter now presents Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas in three volumes. This edition, which is unpara...

Following the edition of the critically acclaimed Urtext edition in individual volumes, Bärenreiter presents Beethoven's 35 piano sonatas as a three-volume complete edition. The editor of this edition...

... It will be a long time before anyone fundamentally improves this musical text and the accompanying critical apparatus! (Leslie Howard). With his edition of Beethoven's piano sonatas, Jonathan Del...

After the glittering premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto, Muzio Clementi approached the composer and suggested an arrangement of the work for piano and orchestra. In 1807, Beethoven acc...

Jonathan Del Mar, who has already made a name for himself with his successful Beethoven editions, now turns his attention to Beethoven's piano concertos. nIn the composer's first piano concerto, Del M...

Although the sources for Beethoven's Piano Concerto op. 19 are generally known, the present edition has eliminated numerous misunderstandings and misinterpretations. To this day, no edition of the wor...

Although the sources for Beethoven's Piano Concerto op. 19 are generally known, the present edition has eliminated numerous misunderstandings and misinterpretations. To this day, no edition of the wor...

> Many wholly new corrections in the solo and orchestral parts > Piano reduction with a separate solo part, as was customary in Beethoven's day > With Beethoven's continuo figures for the first time i...

Beethoven is regarded as the true inventor of the cello sonata as an independent genre in which cello and piano act as equal partners, writes Barry Cooper in his introduction to the Bärenreiter editio...

Ludwig van Beethoven repeatedly explored the genre of the cello sonata between 1796 and 1817. From the early works dedicated to King Frederick William II of Prussia to the two late sonatas in C major...

Edward Elgar's concerto for violoncello, his last major work, is a cleanly structured and emotionally charged composition. It is no wonder that this work is of central importance in the cello literatu...

Arrangement for violoncello and piano by the composer Vc-solo/Fl1/Fl2 (also piccolo flute)/2 Ob/2 Klar/2 Fag/3 Hn/2 Trp/3 Pos/Tb/Pk/Tri/2 V/Va/Vc/KB

The composition of the "Archduke Trio" had already occupied Beethoven for several years when he completed it in 1811. In April 1814, he was finally able to premiere it with Ignaz Schuppanzigh and Jose...