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The pioneering edition of Jean Barraqué's "Sonate pour piano" (1950-1952) is the first time that a work from the heyday of serial music has been made available in a source-critical Urtext edition. The...

Beethoven’s four-movement Sonata in A-flat major op. 26 belongs to his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Lichnowsky, one of his most generous patrons and the dedicatee of, for example, the...

Beethoven's four-movement Sonata in A flat major op. 26 is one of his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky, one of his most important patrons, to whom Beethoven also dedic...

Composed in 1809-10, Beethoven's Sonata op. 81a expresses his very personal feelings. He titled its three movements 'Das Lebewohl' (The Farewell), 'Die Abwesenheit' (The Absence) and 'Das Wiedersehn'...

Beethoven incorporated very personal impressions into his Sonata op. 81a, composed in 1809/10, with the movement titles "Das Lebewohl", "Die Abwesenheit" and "Das Wiedersehn". The compositional trigge...

The Sonata op. 101 has an unusually long history of composition. Beethoven's earliest sketches date from 1815. The first edition of the "Difficult to Exegetate Sonata in A", as Beethoven called it, wa...

Due to serious illness, Beethoven was only able to begin composing the Sonata in A flat major op. 110, the second work in his late trio of sonatas, over a year after the first. The first sketches date...

Following the critically acclaimed publication of the 35 Piano Sonatas in separate editions, Bärenreiter now presents Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas in three volumes. This edition, which is unpara...

Following the edition of the critically acclaimed Urtext edition in individual volumes, Bärenreiter presents Beethoven's 35 piano sonatas as a three-volume complete edition. The editor of this edition...

Aria with (30) different changes. Fourth part of the piano exercise. Urtext of the New Bach Edition. Harpsichord / Piano - Performance score

The pianist Christian Köhn, who is very familiar with Brahms' piano works, has now published a new edition of these variations on the eight-bar theme from Handel's Suite No. 1 ("Suite de pièces de Cla...

Hardly any piano cycle exerts such a magical attraction as Chopin's 24 "Préludes" published in 1839. Schumann described them as "sketches, the beginnings of etudes, [...] ruins, individual eagle's fea...

Schubert’s tuneful and buoyant Sonata in G major was published in April 1827 as a 'Fantasy or Sonata”, to quote the heading of its first movement. His first reviewer noted that 'the beloved and talent...

Schubert’s tuneful and buoyant Sonata in G major was published in April 1827 as a 'Fantasy or Sonata”, to quote the heading of its first movement. His first reviewer noted that 'the beloved and talent...

Volume III of Schubert's piano sonatas brings together the song-like, dance-like "Fantasy Sonata" in G major D 894 (1827) and the three large sonatas in C minor, A major and B flat major (D 958, 959 a...

Mit Hinweisen zur Aufführungspraxis von Mario Aschauer

In December 1818, the Viennese music publisher Pietro Cappi announced the founding of a new publishing house with his business partner Anton Diabelli. The new company Cappi & Diabelli proved to have a...

Marsyas is a character from Greek mythology. A master of the aulos, he was the adversary of the lyre-playing Apollo. When Apollo ordered musicians to accompany themselves when singing, Marsyas' fate w...

In a quiet, entirely conventional barcarole à la Chopin or Tchaikovsky disturbing alarm bells ring, before getting finally brutalized (revealing the main theme of Reinhold Glière's ‘Hymn to a Great Ci...

« Si les artistes rendent si rarement compte de leurs instants d'inspiration, la raison en est bien simple: c'est qu'à ces moments-là du processus créateur ils ne sont nullement présents par la consci...

Exhilarating and celebratory, the rhythmic demands of Dance Works as well as its physical nature are closer to rock, jazz and even medieval music. 'Dance works' was written specifically for dance thea...

Prayer was one of seven new works performed at Spannungen chamber music festival in memory of Lars Vogt (1970-2022).

Jörg Widmanns Diabelli-Variation entstand im Rahmen von Rudolf Buchbinders Diabelli 2020-Projekt, bei dem zahlreiche zeitgenössische Komponisten neue Variationen zu dem Zyklus Beethovens komponierten....