Theodor Kirchner

With the new Urtext Primo series, the Wiener Urtext Edition wants to close the gap arising at the point of transition to additional lessons after having studied a piano method. Beginning with a perfor...

After Johannes Brahms' String Sextet in G major op. 36, the Simrock publishing house published – as was customary at the time – adaptations of the work for other ensembles. In 1883 a version for piano...

Deliberately conceived as studies, the melodic invention of these trifling piano miniatures is abundant, and they are excellently suited both for teaching and for performance.

Kirchner's late pieces, outlined as 'warm and intimate, full of musical beauties', do not make great technical demands on dexterous players.

Encouraged by Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Brahms, Kirchner (1823-1903) is recognised as one of the most original composers for piano among the German Romantics. The Five Sonatinas' were written in Leip...

Theodor Kirchner was a successful pianist, pedagogue and composer in Leipzig, Dresden, Zurich, Winterthur and Hamburg. His very extensive output includes works for piano, organ, chamber music and choi...

With the new Urtext Primo series, the Wiener Urtext Edition wants to close the gap arising at the point of transition to additional lessons after having studied a piano method. Beginning with a perfor...

In Ergänzung zu den wissenschaftlich-kritischen Ausgaben der Trios von Johannes Brahms bei Bärenreiter erscheint hier eine Bearbeitung des Streichsextetts op. 18 für Klaviertrio, angefertigt von Brahm...

Kirchner, a volatile seeker after truth, became, as a composer, a master of transient visions. His importance lies in his piano music. His work com-prises about a thousand individual pieces. Schumann,...