Klassische Klavierstücke

According to Dvorak 'good music must also sound good on the piano'. This is why, on his publisher's request, he not only wrote the original version of his Dumky-Trio but was also willing to write one...

La Vega' depicts the view over the plain of Granada, as seen from the Arabian palace, the Alhambra. The attractive landscape inspired Albéniz to compose this delicate, impressionistic work with an alm...

There were two reasons behind Weber's hesitation to perform his opus 79, known as 'Concert Piece' in public. As he wrote to the music journalist Friedrich Rochlitz, experience had shown that concertos...

As with his famous 'Asturias', Albéniz' transcription of 'Mallorca' for guitar became a great deal more popular than the original version for piano. He probably composed this tender, dreamy 'barcaroll...

Maestro Murray Perahia and Henle's own proven Beethoven expert Norbert Gertsch present the first of three volumes of Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas in a new Urtext edition (HN832, HN834 and HN836)...

Maestro Murray Perahia and Henle's own proven Beethoven expert Norbert Gertsch present the first of three volumes of Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas in a new Urtext edition (HN832, HN834 and HN836)...

In celebration of Beethoven Year 2020, G. Henle Publishers presents the first of three volumes with the complete piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven in a new Urtext edition, prepared by Maestro Murr...

In celebration of Beethoven Year 2020, G. Henle Publishers presents the first of three volumes with the complete piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven in a new Urtext edition, prepared by Maestro Murr...

This work only has the title in common with the well-known 'Images” I and II from 1905 and 1908. Debussy dedicated the three-part cycle to the daughter of a painter friend, writing: 'These pieces shy...

'... as your bride, you must indeed dedicate something further to me, and I know of nothing more tender than these 3 Romances, in particular the middle one, which is the most beautiful love duet.' It...

Schumann kept coming back to variation form. He often wrote his own variations in contrast to those on popular (operatic) themes, with which piano virtuosi of the time flooded the market. The 'Impromp...

Skrjabin's 9th Sonata is often referred to as the 'Black Mass'. Unlike the 7th Sonata, the so-called 'White Mass', this name did not stem from the composer. He writes: 'In the ninth sonata I came clos...

One of the most eminent pianists of his time - who even engaged in a contest with Mozart and did not lose - Muzio Clementi created fundamental pedagogical works for piano and altogether 63 sonatas for...

2009 was Mendelssohn's anniversary year and this has occasioned us to publish in addition to the already existing 'Songs without Words' HN 327 nearly all of his piano compositions in two new extensive...

2009 was Mendelssohn's anniversary year and this has occasioned us to publish in addition to the already existing 'Songs without Words' HN 327 nearly all of his piano compositions in two new extensive...

In 1836 Chopin introduced the term 'ballad' into piano music with the publication of his Ballad op. 23, although up to then it had only been used in literature and in vocal music. Indeed, all four of...

The Novelettes arose at roughly the same time as the Kinderszenen and share the same largely untroubled mood. Writing to Clara Wieck, Schumann could exclaim 'I've written such a frightful amount of mu...

Fréderic Chopin's stay with George Sand on Mallorca in the winter 1838/1839 was ill-fated. Yet Chopin still managed to finish his 'Préludes” there which he had begun to compose in Paris. Today's inter...

Chopin's early works include a wealth of new stimuli for anyone wishing to take a closer look at the creative works of the Polish genius. Up to now the four Rondos have been missing from our catalogue...

Frédéric Chopin's 4 Scherzi are high points in the Romantic piano repertoire. Chopin here takes a traditional genre and fills it with radically new content. They are wild, demonic in tone, and there i...

Following Schumann's move to the Rhine, where he had become the musical director of the Düsseldorf Music Society, times became hard for him. Despite several initial successes, he increasingly encounte...

'Even for me it is a strange and wonderful fact that almost every motif which forms within me bears the characteristics for multiple contrapuntal combinations', Schumann wrote to Mendelssohn. 1845 was...

As he was interested in politics, Schumann took an active interest in the democratically motivated unrest in spring 1848. The following year he directly witnessed the May uprising in Dresden, after wh...

Beethoven's twelfth Piano Sonata op. 26 is unusual in every respect: It opens with variations, followed by a short, energetic Scherzo which is in turn succeeded by the impressive 'Funeral March on the...

Which of his pupils did Haydn have in mind when he composed his humorous 'Divertimento à due per il Clavicembalo solo'? It was written at a time when works for piano four-hands were still the exceptio...