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Haydn dedicated the series of Quartets op. 71 and 74 to the Hungarian Count Apponyi, a Viennese patron of music and a freemason friend. Haydn composed them when he was enjoying a great deal of success...

The title 'Solo per il Violino' which Haydn gave these sonatas in his 'Entwurf-Katalog' (the handwritten catalogue he maintained of his own works), already gives us an indication: it is only the violi...

The five string quartets in this volume are generally designated as Beethoven's 'middle quartets,' even though stylistically they do not all build a closed unit. More than three years lie between the...

Brahms had already composed over 20 string quartets (he confessed to a friend that he had burnt all of that 'stuff') before he finally presented his Opus 51 to the public. In the end only three surviv...

Wissenschaftliche Gesamtausgabe, Critical Report, Division VI, Volume 2, paperback

Joseph Haydn composed twenty-one string trios for two violins and violoncello, of which three have been lost. These chamber music gems, which do not turn up very often on concert programs, are full of...

Joseph Haydn composed twenty-one string trios for two violins and violoncello, of which three have been lost. These chamber music gems, which do not turn up very often on concert programs, are full of...

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Wissenschaftliche Gesamtausgabe, Critical Report, paperback, Series XII, Volume 2

Critical notes on Joseph Haydn's String Quartets Op.20 And Op.33 as compiled by Georg Leder.

After moving to Vienna in 1781, Mozart returned only once to his hometown of Salzburg, and that was from the end of July to the end of October 1783 in the company of his young wife Constanze. Just as...

Following the first two volumes of Haydn's string trios in a study score (HN 9424 und 9425), we are now publishing the third and final one. Although Haydn is said to have composed about 60 string trio...

Max Reger's two string trios stand alongside Mozart's Divertimento in E-flat major (K. 563) and Beethoven's op. 9 trios at the pinnacle of the genre. In their style and technical demands Reger has cle...

The E-flat major String Quartet, op. 127, is a key work not only in Beethoven's Oeuvre but in the entire history of the genre. The first of the late quartets, it 'transfers the formal and symbolic asp...

Beethoven's op. 135, one of the last works he composed, is equally famous for its compositional clarity and for the inadequacy of previous editions. Theproblem lies in the surviving sources, for Beeth...

'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...

> Inaccuracies in the first edition regarding the articulation and dynamics have been carefully resolved The quartet in a minor is one of the chamber music works with which Schubert wanted to 'pave th...

Schubert only took ten days to write his String Quartet in G major, one of his truly monumental chamber music works. With its almost symphonic dimensions, this late quartet is reminiscent of his great...

The genesis of Mendelssohn's string quintets is closely connected to his friend Eduard Rietz and the latter's brother Julius. Deeply affected by Eduard's death in 1832, Mendelssohn exchanged the 'Minu...

Around 1800 Beethoven seems to have completely distanced himself from chamber music for wind. In letters to his publisher we read that he did not have any particular regard for his Septet op. 20 and t...

Around 1800 Beethoven seems to have completely distanced himself from chamber music for wind. In letters to his publisher we read that he did not have any particular regard for his Septet op. 20 and t...

The immediate model for this first important chamber music work by Ravel was Debussy’s String Quartet from 1892/93. Nevertheless, the composition, written in 1902/03, already contains unmistakable fea...

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