When Mendelssohn learned from his publisher Nikolaus Simrock that he was to receive an additional honorarium for a part of his 'Lieder ohne Worte', he effusively thanked him for this gift. However, th...
A short while ago Henle issued Mendelssohn's second Violoncello Sonata, op. 58. Now the first Sonata, op. 45, is available for the first time as Urtext edition with a flawless music text. A preface an...
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wrote three major works for cello and piano, a task he particularly enjoyed since his brother Paul was a cellist. Following the early Variations op. 17 (1829) and the Sonat...
In autumn 1830 Mendelssohn Bartholdy visited Venice whilst on a great European tour and was intoxicated by his impressions. He said of the local gondoliers: 'The gondoliers are now crying out to one a...
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, on his return journey from Scotland in late summer 1829, spent a few sublimely beautiful days with the Taylor family in Wales. The 'Trois Fantaisies ou Caprices op. 16' fo...
Mozart's only piano sonata in E-flat major was probably written during his stay in Munich in early 1775. Its first movement - an Adagio, unconventionally - is one of those pieces by the young genius t...
2009 was Mendelssohn's anniversary year and this has occasioned us to publish in addition to the already existing 'Songs without Words' HN 327 nearly all of his piano compositions in two new extensive...
Besides two genuine cello 'hits' from the pen of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy -- the 'Variations op. 17' and the 'Song without Words op. 109' -- this urtext edition contains a little sensation: the pre...
