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If the epithet "Appassionata" applies to one of Beethoven's sonatas, it is not the famous work in F minor op. 57, as Carl Czerny believed, but the E flat major sonata op. 7, which was written "in a ve...

Composed in 1800 and published as a 'Grande Sonate', Beethoven's Piano Sonata in B-flat major op. 22 marks the end of his first creative period. The only surviving handwritten source is a copyist's ma...

Beethoven's Piano Sonata in B flat major op. 22, composed in 1800, marks the end of his first creative phase. The only surviving manuscript source of the work, which was entitled "Grande Sonate" in th...

With the sonatas op. 31, composed in 1802, Beethoven brought together piano sonatas as a group for the last time. The highlight of the collection is undoubtedly the middle work in D minor, whose drama...

Beethoven's Sonata in F major op. 54 was written in 1804, just after the highly virtuosic 'Waldstein' Sonata and before the 'Appassionata' Sonata, and has unjustly stood in the shadow of its predecess...

The Sonata in F major op. 54, written in 1804 immediately after the highly virtuoso "Waldstein" Sonata, is still unjustly overshadowed by its predecessor and the subsequent "Appassionata" in F minor o...

It was not until 1814, five years after the Sonata op. 81 'Les Adieux', that Beethoven, then at the height of his popularity during the Congress of Vienna, returned to the piano sonata. The highly lyr...

'Here's a sonata that will challenge pianists and that one will be able to play in 50 years': thus Beethoven is said to have written to his publisher Artaria regarding his mighty 'Hammerklavier' Sonat...

Here you have a sonata that will give pianists a hard time, one that will be played in 50 years' time, Beethoven is said to have written to the publisher Artaria about his enormous Sonata in B flat ma...

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In October 1801, Beethoven offered the Vienna Art and Industry Comptoir a "large sonata for forte piano". His Sonata in D major, published the following year, has been inextricably linked with this ep...

The Sonata in B minor op. 58 (1844) is Chopin's third and most important contribution to this genre. The editors have arrived at a revised reading of the work through a fundamental reassessment of the...

Chopin's "Berceuse" is one of his most frequently performed works and was regarded by subsequent composers as the prototype of the instrumental lullaby. This piece that Chopin initially named "Variant...

In 1845/46, Chopin composed his bel canto-inspired "Barcarolle" in F sharp major op. 60, which became a model for subsequent generations of composers. In his evaluation of the divergent and sometimes...

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...

Fauré composed his 5 Impromptus from 1881-1883 and 1906-1909 in two different creative phases. Inspired by Chopin, his brilliant early Impromptus op. 25, 31 and 34 resemble lyrical etudes that seem im...

Recorded as Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's piano sonata by Éric Heidsieck in 1972, it was only in 2010, almost 200 years after its composition in 1828, that musicologist Angela Mace was able to attribu...

More than 20 years after op. 52, Saint-Saëns returned to the concert étude genre. In 1892, he wrote an etude initially intended for publication in a magazine, the later No. 1. However, on the advice o...

Saint-Saëns' Etudes for the left hand were commissioned in 1912 by his pianist friend Caroline Montigny-Rémaury de Serres, who had suffered an injury to her right hand. Saint-Saëns originally titled t...

... It will be a long time before anyone fundamentally improves this musical text and the accompanying critical apparatus! (Leslie Howard). With his edition of Beethoven's piano sonatas, Jonathan Del...

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