Robert Schumann's 'Album for the Young' is one of the milestones of educationally inspired piano literature. This edition does not focus on systematic technical studies but on the development of the p...
Robert Schumann wrote his Fantasy Pieces for clarinet and piano in the course of two days in February 1849. Only a few days later they were premiered by Clara Schumann and the Dresden clarinetist Joha...
Dvorák composed his twelfth string quartet in F major op. 96, known as the “American” Quartet, in just twelve days during his summer vacation in Spillville, Iowa in June 1893. This immensely uplifting...
Max Reger's two string trios stand alongside Mozart's Divertimento in E-flat major (K. 563) and Beethoven's op. 9 trios at the pinnacle of the genre. In their style and technical demands Reger has cle...
On 18 May 2006 a manuscript was auctioned at Sotheby's that made chamber musicians prick up their ears. Shortly before his death, Max Bruch composed three works for strings which he was no longer able...
Hummel's Trumpet Concerto is still one of the most popular concertos for this instrument. He composed it in 1803 for the Viennese court trumpeter Anton Waidinger, whose newly developed key-trumpet ena...
It made its creator world-famous and added a towering masterpiece to the standard repertoire: Max Bruch's First Violin Concerto in g minor. Now it's appearing at last in an urtext edition from Henle....
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...
Meilenstein der Klavierliteratur Liszts 1854 erschienener Sonate in h-Moll kommt innerhalb der Gattung Klaviersonate überragende Bedeutung zu. Bärenreiter legt das Werk - nach wie vor pianistische Her...
Max Reger's powerful organ work is published for the first time in the previously unknown authentic version for piano four hands. The manuscript only came into the possession of the Reger Institute in...
Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit is one of the most important piano works of the 20th century and constitutes the height of the extension of the pianistic playing techniques and tonal possibilites w...
With his Variations sérieuses, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy contributed to the anthology Album-Beethoven which had been initiated by the Viennese publisher Pietro Mechetti and whose proceeds were to be...
Christian Sinding's six Piano Pieces Op. 32 have become world famous due to third piece Rustle of Spring. Sinding's music combines late-Romantic tonal charm with mysterious Nordic cadences, also typic...
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...
Just as Johannes Brahms had done with his Opus 120, Reger also provided parts for two alternative solo instruments for his Sonata op. 107: 'I will also arrange the clarinet part for viola, so that the...
Robert Schumann wrote his Fantasy pieces op. 73 originally for clarinet and piano. The first edition of Schumann's Fantasy Pieces op. 73 published in July 1849 contained not only a clarinet part but a...
It is quite clear to me what is missing from today's music: a Mozart!' With his trios which he consciously kept in a classical manner, Reger hoped to prove the contrary to the 'ignorant people', who f...
Breitkopf Urtext [Trp,Orch] (Kube, Michael) Coproduction with the G. Henle Verlag You can find the version in E flat major of this concerto here
The cycle Seven Early Songs, based on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets, was compiled in 1928, more than twenty years after the individual songs were composed. Alban Berg selected seven of...
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When Reger submitted his Clarinet Sonata op. 107 for printing, he remarked: 'You immediately notice that the work was originally for clarinet (viola) but that it can also be played by violin and piano...
The genesis of Berg's Violin Concerto in 1935 is shrouded in tragedy. He had only just finished making the first sketches when Manon Gropius - the daughter of Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler, with whom...
'For me, Sebastian Bach is the be-all and end-all of music; true progress lies and resides in him alone.' It was with these programmatic words that Max Reger prefaced his answer to a survey 'What does...
Max Reger, the creator of forbiddingly difficult organ music, could also take a different tack. His 'Thirty Little Chorale Preludes' are intended for semiprofessional organists always on the lookout f...
This volume brings together central works to Reger's output for the organ, such as the popular 'Introduction and Passacaglia' in d minor, which Reger wrote as a benefit-work to assist towards the rebu...
It is little known that alongside his three great sonatas for clarinet and piano, Reger also wrote two charming miniatures for the same instrumentation. At the same time, it was the composer's express...
Eight years after he had composed his first two Clarinet Sonatas op. 49, Reger confessed in a letter to a friend that he was once again committing 'a new crime against harmony and counterpoint'. He wa...
Früh komponiert, spät orchestriert Der Zyklus wurde 1928, mehr als zwanzig Jahre nach der Komposition der einzelnen Lieder, zusammengestellt. Alban Berg wählte aus der großen Zahl der Klavierlieder, d...
The significance of Liszt's late piano pieces has been the subject of much debate. On the one hand they are considered heralds of the elderly Liszt's waning inspiration; on the other hand, they are pr...
With his clarinet quintet, begun in 1915, Reger was remembering his role models Mozart and Brahms, whose works in this genre he particularly admired. This melancholic quintet that is worked through in...
Like Joseph Haydn's Concerto in E-flat Major Hob VIIe:1 (1796), Hummel's Trumpet Concerto in E Major was composed in 1803 for the Viennese soloist Anton Weidinger, who had at his disposal on his keyed...
Thorwald Nielsen (1891-1965) who first studied with Anton Svendsen in Copenhagen, was a member to the Danish Court Chapel since 1914 and led the Thorwald Nielsen-Kvartet as first violinist since 1924,...
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Der deutschsprachige Komponist Erwin Schulhoff - 1894 in Prag geboren und 1942 im Internierungslager der Nationalsozialisten in Wülzburg (Bayern) gestorben - kam in den 1920er-Jahren in seine Geburtss...
Franz Schuberts beliebte 'Deutsche Messe' aus dem Jahre 1827 knüpft in ihrer Idee einer deutschsprachigen Ordinariumsvertonung an das 'Deutsche Hochamt' von Michael Haydn an. Aufgrund seiner homophone...
Neue Schubert-Ausgabe. Serie V, Band 6 Die Auseinandersetzung mit der großen sinfonischen Besetzung und Form hat Franz Schubert zeitlebens beschäftigt. Neben den zum Abschluss gebrachten sieben Sinfo...
Neben seinen Sinfonien schrieb Franz Schubert zwischen ca. 1811 und 1819 insgesamt acht selbständig überlieferte, vollendete Konzertouvertüren (zwei davon in zwei Fassungen). Mit Ausnahme der 'Ouvertü...
