Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

'Because I only need four parts to express everything' - Haydn is said to have replied thus when asked why he had not composed a string quintet. Mozart saw things differently. He applied himself to th...

In the Mozart Year 2006, Henle will begin publication of all of Mozart's string quintets in a three-volume Urtext edition (parts and study scores). Volume II, comprising the best-known and most often...

With the publication of the masterpieces K. 593 and 614, all of Mozart's string quintets are now available in Henle Urtext. Our edition corrects several widespread misreadings of the musical text and...

Already in his early youth, Mozart made his first forays into the genre of the string quartet, the supreme discipline in chamber music. The three three-movement works K. 136–138, which he designated "...

At the time, Mozart's genius - recognised at an early age - could only be explained as being God-given. Wolfgang Amadeus and his sister Maria Anna, older by five years, were admired as being 'Wunderki...

Leopold Mozart was only able to understand his son's musical genius in terms of it being a God-given wonder: 'That my boy ... knows all of this with his 8 years that could be expected of a man of fort...

In autumn 1765 Mozart's family was in Holland, not least at the request of Princess Caroline von Nassau-Weilburg. The fame of the prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus had already reached her so that she 'had an e...

The violin part was edited by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, who published further Urtext editions by Mozart with Henle Verlag (including the complete sonatas for piano and violin, HN77, 78, 79, 80). The caden...

The violin part was edited by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, who published further Urtext editions by Mozart with Henle Verlag (including the complete sonatas for piano and violin, HN77, 78, 79, 80). The caden...

This is not only Mozart's first concerto for the violin but his first concerto altogether. He composed it at the age of 17, writing it in Salzburg in 1773 two years before his other four violin concer...

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...

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Already in his early youth, Mozart made his first forays into the genre of the string quartet, the supreme discipline in chamber music. The three three-movement works K. 136–138, which he designated "...

For years Henle has been issuing urtext piano reductions of Mozart's works for violin and orchestra at six-month intervals. Now the time has come for the three single movements. These incomparable tre...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

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...

Max Reger created his three suites for violoncello solo in 1914/15 for three important cellists and pedagogues of his time: Julius Klengel, Hugo Becker and Paul Grümmer. He also had a personal friends...

This pocket score brings together two Mozart quintets that are extraordinary both for their instrumentation and for their musical profundity: the piano quintet K. 452 in E-flat major for piano, oboe,...

The Concerto in Bb major K. 595 is not only Mozart's very last in the series of very important works for piano and orchestra. It is generally regarded as his most mature, perhaps even his most beautif...

Breitkopf Urtext - Co-production with Henle-Verlag

Breitkopf Urtext - Co-production with Henle-Verlag

Breitkopf Urtext - Co-production with Henle-Verlag

Breitkopf Urtext - Co-production with Henle-Verlag

Breitkopf Urtext - Co-production with Henle-Verlag

Breitkopf Urtext - Co-production with Henle-Verlag