For half a century Henle's edition of the Beethoven sonatas - the 'New Testament' of the piano repertoire - has been universally recognized as the standard starting-point for any serious study of thes...
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 music world the special importance that he assigned to them. He wrote t...
Carl Czerny wrote the following about Ludwig van Beethoven's 'Grande Sonate' op. 7, published in 1797: 'The epithet appassionata would fit much better to the Sonata in E flat op. 7, which he wrote in...
After composing the three Piano Sonatas op. 2 between 1794/95, Beethoven presumably planned a further trilogy without delay. Because of its enormous scope, the Grande Sonata op. 7 was removed from thi...
The Piano Sonata op. 101 marks the transition to Beethoven's late works. The composer's increasing deafness was already manifesting itself in such a marked way that he no longer dared to appear public...
A wonderful piece, but very difficult - only a few will be able to master it ...'. Since this pronouncement by Nicolai Rubinstein, who nonetheless premièred it with bravura, the work has unjustly been...
Beethoven only arranged one of his piano sonatas for a different instrumentation: an authentic arrangement of the Sonata op. 14 no. 1 for string quartet still exists (it is published in an appendix to...
Maestro Murray Perahia and Henle's own proven Beethoven expert Norbert Gertsch present the first of three volumes of Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas in a new Urtext edition (HN832, HN834 and HN836)...
In celebration of Beethoven Year 2020, G. Henle Publishers presents the first of three volumes with the complete piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven in a new Urtext edition, prepared by Maestro Murr...
