As did many piano virtuosi at the time, Robert Schumann also dreamt of presenting himself to the public simultaneously as a pianist and composer with his own piano concerto. He had made several first...
Unlike some of his other late works, Franck's Violin Sonata (HN 293), composed in 1886, was well-received by the public and critics from the very start. The beautiful arrangement for cello published i...
The a-minor Concerto is a true gem in the repertoire of great cello music. David Geringas provided the fingerings for this Urtext edition for which editor Peter Jost supplied a detailed preface. Johan...
For our Urtext edition of the Clarinet Sonata op. 167 we were able to consult the autograph for the first time. 'At the moment I am putting my last ounce of energy into giving seldom considered instru...
Revised edition replaces HN173 The three volumes of the 'Années de pèlerinage' belong to the core of Liszt's piano oeuvre. In the first volume, 'Suisse', the composer realised impressions of an extend...
Ravel’s plans for a piano concerto can be traced back to 1906, but it was only in early 1929 that the composer seriously started work on one. He later stated that he wrote it “in the spirit of the con...
In June 1905, Ravel told a friend shortly before setting off on a long holiday: 'I was terribly busy because of a piece for harp commissioned by the Érard company. I was able to finish it after a fash...
> First Urtext edition since 1955 > Dvorák's most famous string quartet After a twelve-year interval, Dvorák once again turned his attention to the string quartet in summer 1893. He had been musical d...
The Oboe Sonata op. 166 was the first of three wind sonatas that Saint-Saëns wrote in his fi nal year. Throughout his life he had been more familiar with keyboard and stringed instruments, so the comp...
'More than 20 years ago I was called upon by friends, artists, and aficionados to write about fingerings for the violoncello,' then-famous Berlin cellist Jean-Louis Duport thus opens his 'Essai' from...
The first movement of Maurice Ravel's Sonatine for piano was probably written in 1903. At any rate the composer played it on 8 January 1904 at a soirée held at the salon of Marguerite de Saint-Marceau...
Miroirs' - Ravel dedicated each of these five piano pieces to a member of the Parisian artistic circle 'Les Apaches'. Ravel also belonged to this circle of poets, painters and musicians, giving first...
A collection of prose poems by the French Romantic Aloysius Bertrand inspired Ravel to write his piano cycle 'Gaspard de la nuit'. Unlike earlier works he does not merely create an atmospheric depicti...
Mozart is one of the pioneers of works for piano four-hands; he was undoubtedly encouraged to do so through his music-making on the harpsichord with his sister, as depicted in the famous family portra...
The unsteady life of the Belgian Vieuxtemps anticipated the European idea like hardly any other in the 19th century. The best example is the Élégie composed in 1848: it was written in St. Petersburg,...
Vieuxtemps is nowadays considered to be the foremost exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school. Following a concert by the 14-year old 'wunderkind' in 1834, none other than Robert Schumann said: 'W...
At the beginning of the 1870s, Saint-Saëns displayed a particular partiality for the violoncello. He composed his first cello sonata in December 1872, immediately after having completed the first cell...
Aside from the Piano Quartet op. 13 and the Violin Sonata op. 18, the Cello Sonata op. 6 numbers among the most mature works of chamber music from Strauss' early œuvre. The influences of Mendelssohn,...
Following the sonatas for oboe and clarinet, the bassoon sonata is the last of the compositions for wind from 1921, the year of Saint-Saëns' death. He did not have a chance to write the sonata for cor...
For several years following composition of his first piano quartet, Dvořák's publisher Simrock pushed him to compose a follow-up piece in the genre. The work, written during a few short weeks in summe...
The model for this composition was Beethoven's Septet op. 20, whose Divertimento character and six-part layout were adopted by Schubert, although he merely expanded the instrumentation by adding a sec...
When Dvořák suddenly became internationally famous in 1878 with his Slavonic Dances, he received, among other things, a request for a new string quartet from Jean Becker, the first violinist of the re...
This highly virtuosic concert piece, composed in 1863, is one of the works that Saint-Saëns wrote especially for his friend Pablo de Sarasate. The great violin virtuosos of the 19th century delighted...
Unlike other late works by Franck, the Violin Sonata of 1886 found a friendly reception among critics and public from the outset. It is dedicated to Eugène Ysaye, who was attracting much attention at...
Elements of Spanish folklore dominate in Sarasate's compositions, but several prominent works also use typical melodies and dances of other countries. Alongside the 'Zigeunerweisen', the 'Introduction...
Now, for the first time, Henle publishes an urtext edition of this famous violin concerto (it is also the first German edition). The detailed preface provides exhaustive information on the work's gene...
Soli,GCh,Orch 45' - Soli: SATB - Chor: SATB - 1.2.2.2. - 2.2.3.0. - Pk - Org - Str
Schuberts letzte große Messe, deren Uraufführung im Oktober 1829 er nicht mehr erlebt hat. .
Looking back in 1876, Liszt admitted candidly to the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel that his 'Wagner transcriptions' had 'only served as modest propaganda for Wagner's noble genius, using the meagre pos...
The title of Ravel's Miroirs (1904/05) can be interpreted as 'reflections' of the human world of experiences. Among the nature pictures in this cycle, 'Une barque sur l'océan' is particularly popular,...
Two copies needed for performance This was the last concerto that Saint-Saëns wrote for his own instrument, the piano. Its subtitle has a dual meaning. Firstly, it was composed quickly in Luxor and Ca...
Whereas numerous French composers of the time tried to breathe new life into the larger forms of instrumental music, Chabrier concentrated on the smaller dance and character forms. The 'Bourrée fantas...
In summer 1881 Franz Liszt composed a work that he called 'Valse oubliée' (Forgotten waltz) in a letter to his publisher. The work is reminiscent of the appealing piano waltzes that the composer used...
Given Saint-Saëns' talents both as pianist and composer, it stood to reason that he would engage with the piano concerto genre early on. But he gave a clear renunciation of the 'concerto brilliant' th...
Despite its unusual form - a structure with two sections, each comprising two movements that are to be played without interruption - this work from 1875 enjoyed great success from the start. In its ba...
The composition and publication of the first two volumes of Liszt's 'Années de pèlerinage' are closely interlinked. Barely a year after returning from Switzerland, Liszt and his companion Marie d'Agou...
During his youth, Richard Strauss composed a large number of works for piano solo, among them numerous sonatas. Yet it was only the Sonata in b-minor that he obviously considered important enough to w...
The three volumes of the 'Années de pèlerinage' (Years of Pilgrimage) are a core part of Liszt's pianistic output. While the first two collections comprise travel impressions from Switzerland and Ital...
These piano studies, fully worked out in summer 1848, but presumably sketched earlier, were published in the German original edition at the beginning of 1849 simply with the numbering 1-3. In the fir...
Liszt's piano rhapsodies are in the same tradition as his transcriptions of opera or song themes, but in this case the point of departure is folk dances and songs. Liszt described no. 2 of his Hungari...
Liszt understood a "rhapsody" to signify the highest degree of musical freedom: a constant process of transformation and variation of themes and motifs, all bound up with constant shifts of emotion. A...
Volume I of Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage, entitled Suisse, is based on impressions he gathered during an extended sojourn in Switzerland in 1835/36. The most important piece of the collection, first p...
Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no. 3 is the shortest of his series of 19 Rhapsodies published in 1853 and represents an extensive reworking of a Hungarian National Melody published already ten years befor...
Just like the third, the Fourth Hungarian Rhapsody, also issued in 1853, is based on a piano piece previously published as a Hungarian National Melody. In the course of his editing, Liszt intensified...
At last Fauré's brilliant masterpiece is available in a modern urtext edition! This vibrant set of variations was premièred in London's St James Hall on 10 December 1896 and appeared in print the foll...
The sounds made by water - those of fountains, waterfalls and streams - were a popular subject in musical impressionism. Liszt had already explored this in his 'Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este', and it...
The 'Valses oubliées' belong to Liszt's late work, characterised by themes such as memory, sorrow and grief. They do not form a cycle but were written as separate pieces between 1881 and 1884. The tit...
At the beginning of the 1870s, Saint-Saëns showed a particular fondness for the violoncello. He completed his first cello sonata in December 1872, immediately after finishing his first cello concerto...
After the first cello sonata of 1872 (HN 1057) quickly became popular, the publisher kept urging the composition of a second sonata for this instrumentation. But it was not until March 1905, in the mi...
Just a few months after completing his Cello Sonata op. 6, Strauss composed another work for this instrument: a Romance for cello and orchestra, which remained unpublished during his lifetime. Accordi...
