Good intentions are simply not good enough (to freely paraphrase Kurt Tucholsky): the arpeggione, a kind of hybrid instrument like a large bowed guitar, never won acceptance among musicians. This curi...
Just as in his 'Trout' Quintet (D 667), 'Wanderer' Fantasy (D 760), and string quartet 'Death and the Maiden' (D 810), in the flute variations on 'Trockne Blumen' (D 802) Franz Schubert employs one of...
No serious musician and no serious orchestra can ignore this new Urtext edition of a major work of concerto literature, since the music text frequently diverges from that of previous editions. All the...
More than a few experts and aficionados count Mozart's string trio in E-flat major K. 563 among his most magnificent compositions. This masterwork, entered into Mozart's own catalogue of works on 27 S...
There is no other chamber-music genre for which Mozart produced so many works - see the sonatas and variations - than that of the duos for piano and violin. He spent a considerable amount of time with...
As astonishing as it might sound, Mozart was already composing piano sonatas (K. 6-9) at the age of seven. It is wonderfully fresh and varied music. We have already published Urtext editions of these...
In 1764 the eight-year-old Mozart wrote the Sonatas K. 10-15 in London. Leopold Mozart was only able to understand his son's musical genius in terms of it being a God-given wonder: 'That my boy ... kn...
The Six Sonatas for Piano K. 26-31 that can also have a violin accompaniment were composed in The Hague. They were published in 1766 and were dedicated to Princess Caroline von Nassau-Weilburg. These...
Fingering: Markus Bellheim Detailed critical commentary (not available in the printed editions) available free-of-charge: Download. A sensational finding provided the impetus for this new edition. In...
The great D major sonata for two pianos, K. 448, is - of course - the absolute showpiece of this Urtext edition. The first movement opens like an operatic overture with timpani and trumpets, the Andan...
