Klassische Klavierstücke

We know that Brahms took an active interest in Baroque music throughout his life. It can thus hardly be by chance that he chose a theme from one of Handel's harpsichord suites for his 25 variations. T...

Jan Hugo Vo?횀ek (1791-1825), born the year that Mozart died, is, we believe, the one who stands out amongst the Bohemian composers at the time of Beethoven. He is currently enjoying a well-deserved r...

Next to the polonaises and the waltzes, the mazurkas are the third dance form which Chopin cultivated in his music. They constitute the largest of these three groups, boasting nearly 60 pieces. Chopin...

An Urtext edition of Robert Schumann's Exercices - Studies On A Theme By Beethoven, as edited by Robert Munster.

This is a wonderful selection of Piano Sonatas by Muzio Clementi. A dedicated player and pioneer of the Piano, which led to him being dubbed the father of the piano, Italian composer and Pianist Muzio...

Mazurkas, nocturnes, waltzes and polonaises constitute the core of Chopin's expressive world. However, he also moved comfortably beyond such genre cycles, and pieces of this sort are brought together...

Franz Liszt not only wrote a series of opera paraphrases during his virtuoso years, but also composed some in his Weimar years from 1848 onwards. He did not, however, write them for himself but for th...

Foreword: Ernst Herttrich Facsimile of the manuscript, hardcover Pages: 28 (XXII, 6), size 30,5 x 25,0 cm

> Preface: Mária Eckhardt > Introduction: Claudio Arrau The surviving autograph of Franz Liszt's b-minor Sonata is a fascinating document that illuminates the compositional process: many cuts and past...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy knew that he could rely on his highly gifted sister Fanny as a partner in four-hand piano pieces. While he wrote only a few works of this sort, the two pieces presented her...

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are often referred to as the 'New Testament of Music' (Hans von Bülow). Since the publication of our complete edition in two volumes, experts have praised it as being the...

This is a wonderful selection of Piano Sonatas by Muzio Clementi. A dedicated player and pioneer of the Piano, which led to him being dubbed the father of the piano, Italian composer and Pianist Muzio...

I am endlessly looking forward to the second sonata', thus Clara wrote to Robert in 1838, 'Your whole being is so clearly expressed in it.' Nonetheless in the same letter she encouraged him to revise...

Johann Christian Bach settled in London in 1762 after acquiring extensive experience in Italy. His Six Sonatas, op. 5, are signposts towards the future classical piano sonata. Bach wrote them for the...

These six piano sonatas were written during the composer's London years, after he had collected much valuable experience in Italy. The so-called 'London' Bach devoted himself intensively to the possib...

These six piano sonatas were written during the composer's London years, after he had collected much valuable experience in Italy. The so-called 'London' Bach devoted himself intensively to the possib...

Following Schumann's fi rst, evidently unsuccessful attempt at composing a 'Sonata' - he only had the opening movement published under the title 'Allegro in b minor' - he tried once again in 1833. It...

John Field, a pupil of Muzio Clementi, was in his day a celebrated pianist, credited with almost legendary skill. The Irish piano virtuoso and composer is principally known for his 'Nocturnes,' a genr...

Through the amiable genre of the 'sonatina', generations of piano pupils have slowly and cautiously approached its 'big sister', the sonata. With the aid of our three-volume selection of sonatinas fro...

As is the case with quite a few of his works, there are two versions of Schumann's opus 14 - a three-movement 'Concert sans Orchestre' from 1836 and a 'Grande Sonate' in five movements from 1853. We d...

This Henle Urtext edition is very special, for behind the 'Selected Piano Works' concept is a compilation of Chopin's most popular pieces. Moreover, the editor and publisher have placed great weight o...

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are often referred to as the 'New Testament of Music' (Hans von Bülow). Since the publication of our complete edition in two volumes, experts have praised it as being the...

In his last years, Skryabin realized a noble and great idea. Inspired by his study of theosophical writings, he dreamed of joining music, poetry, mime, architecture, light, colour and even aromas to c...

In 1784 Joseph Haydn dedicated three piano sonatas to Princess Marie Esterházy in which the composer surprisingly turned to a two-movement form. This is also the case with the Sonata in G major Hob. X...