Norbert Gertsch

Along with the Stamitz concerto, Hoffmeister's Viola Concerto is the most important audition piece for viola players. Yet, it has been handed down in a complicated source tradition, surviving in a sin...

In a span of only eight years, between 1794-1802, Beethoven composed twenty piano sonatas, among them his so-called 'Grande Sonate Pathétique' op. 13. It marks the consummation of his Classical style,...

Carl Maria von Weber's Concerto in f minor is among the compositions of first rank for solo clarinet and is permanently established in the world's concert repertoire. For purposes of comparison, Norbe...

First came Johann Sebastian Bach's sonatas and partitas, then Nicolò Paganini's caprices. Now, with the op. 27 sonatas of Eugène Ysaye, the key works in the repertoire for unaccompanied violin are ava...

Sonata quasi una fantasia' was the title given to it by Beethoven, and yet the world of music knows it as the 'Moonlight Sonata' - an epithet that was already around during the composer's lifetime. 'T...

Hummels 'Potpourri' for Viola and Orchestra op. 94 is part of every viola player's core re­pertoire, especially in its shortened version, the 'Fantasy'. Sprinkled with quotes from operas by Mozart and...

Ludwig van Beethoven komponierte seine Missa solemnis zwischen 1819 und 1822. Die vorliegende Ausgabe legt als Hauptquelle die Arbeitskopie der Partitur zugrunde, die Beethoven wohl unmittelbar nach F...

'Decisive and manly,' 'most profound sentiment and delicacy,' and 'imaginative humour' - thus does Beethoven's contemporary Carl Czerny accurately describe the three movements of this expressive sonat...

Prokofiev did not compose his Visions fugitives – 20 “fleeting visions” – in one go, but in clusters between 1915 and 1917, immediately before the Russian Revolution that compelled him to leave his na...

This selection of five 'easy' sonatas offers advanced students of piano and aficionados the perfect entry point into the singular world of this great composer's piano sonatas. Arranged in increasing l...

Five famous sonatas by Beethoven - all bearing a popular epithet known the world over - are presented to advanced pianists in this attractive volume of selected works from the new three-volume Urtext...

My compositions are very profitable for me and I can say that I have more orders than are almost possible for me to fulfil.' Beethoven wrote the latter to a friend in 1801. He had only just completed...

For half a century Henle's edition of the Beethoven sonatas - the 'New Testament' of the piano repertoire - has been universally recognized as the stan-dard starting-point for any serious study of the...

Some of Gershwin's finest inspirations have not as yet been either published or publicly performed. It is probable that the production of his twenty-four preludes … will award him a still higher rank...

Gershwin's Concerto was premiered on December 3, 1925, in Carnegie Hall - the epicentre of New York's classical music scene. It belongs to a group of self-imposed 'experiments' with which the composte...

For this edition, all known sources were evaluated, and thus an Urtext edition of this concerto is now available, including a preface and notes section, in which the complex source situation is explai...

A pearl in the romantic repertoire for viola and orchestra! Bruch's 'Romance' has long occupied a permanent place in the viola repertoire, whether in lessons or on the concert stage. Our edition is th...

This 'hit' is even popular among learners! Now it opens Henle's new series of Weber's works for clarinet and orchestra in piano reduction. This edition includes two separate parts: the urtext of Weber...

Now the Concertino and the First Clarinet Concerto are about to be followed by Weber's Second Concerto in E-flat major, edited by Norbert Gertsch. Once again, the piano reduction contrasts the origina...

Published in early 1806, Kreutzer's '40 Études ou Caprices' for violin - there are 42 today - are the product of his years-long employment at the Conservatoire de Paris and are the most comprehensive...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Missa solemnis between 1819 and 1822. The present edition is based on the working copy of the score as its main source, which Beethoven probably commissioned immediat...

It is, aside from two passages, one of Beethoven's easiest; but as far as the performance of individual passages and its whole spirit is concerned, requires every kind of care', thus wrote a contempor...

Beethoven's Piano Sonata no. 7 in D major is the third from his Opus 10, which appeared in 1798, and simultaneously the heavyweight of this group of works. As one of the most powerful sonatas from the...

Beethoven's three piano sonatas op. 2 were the first works in this genre to which he gave an opus number, thus signalling to the musical world the special importance that he assigned to them. He wrote...

Rachmaninov's well-known piano cycle was composed in 1931, at a time when his great works for solo piano and the piano concertos had already brought him great fame. However, this is by no means an 'ol...