Intermediate Piano

At the end of his short life, Franz Schubert impressively illustrated, in his collections of 'Impromptus' and 'Moments musicaux', how lyrical-songlike form could be rendered on the piano. Nothing can...

The great pianist Paul Badura-Skoda counts the first movement of this B-flat major sonata K. 333 as 'among the most beautiful … in the piano literature.' And who would want to contradict him? What a p...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, on his return journey from Scotland in late summer 1829, spent a few sublimely beautiful days with the Taylor family in Wales. The 'Trois Fantaisies ou Caprices op. 16' fo...

Max Hehemann stated once, 'Reger just simply happens to be complicated'. This sums up the usual and for the main part accurate assessment that is prevalent in the music world of the works of one of th...

Domenico Scarlatti is today considered as one of music history's great piano composers, and the first piano virtuoso ever. Just like the first two volumes (HN 395 and 451) of selected keyboard sonatas...

In his collections of Impromptus and Moments musicaux, Franz Schubert impressively showed at the end of his life how a lyrical, songlike form can be rendered on the piano. In spite of their simplicity...

Antonín Dvořák's piano works are generally overshadowed by his symphonies and chamber music works, especially since those from around 1880 are very much oriented around Schubert, Chopin and Schumann....

Bach's Six Partitas form what is presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history. Bach was aware of the weightiness of his cycle as he initially had these multi-moveme...

Franz Liszt was a Schubert fan his whole life. In his concerts he performed Schubert’s songs in transcriptions for piano solo with such great effect that publishers also took notice. Thus, from 1838,...

This 'No. 1' of Mozart's eighteen total piano sonatas is nevertheless not the very first one that he composed. It is well known that the 'Wunderkind' Mozart had previously written at least four piano...

Whoever has experienced a major pianist performing this sonata live (the slow 'Andante cantabile' middle movement is occasionally played as an encore) knows the grandeur and effect of this C major wor...

From early childhood, Max Reger grew into the tradition of artisanal, practical composition in which Johann Sebastian Bach became his role model. Traditional forms such as canon, fugue, passacaglia an...

This single edition - it is number 10 in the first volume of the Préludes (HN 383) of 1910 - shows the extent of Debussy's imagination as he conjures up the old city of Ys that has sunk into the sea....

The Nocturne op. 37 no. 2, composed in 1839, is a perfect example of the rich, pearling cascades of thirds and sixths that keep Chopin's piano works at the top of the popularity list and as beloved to...

The popular nickname 'Minute Waltz' should not mislead the pianist into playing this 'string of pearls' too hastily. Another nickname is more effective, that of 'Petit Chien' Puppy that is frequently...

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky numbers among the most frequently performed composers in the concert halls of the world. He had already composed two symphonies, three operas, the fantasy-overture 'Romeo and...

This 'little' D-major sonata is somewhat the pansy (or violet?) among Mozart's eighteen piano sonatas. It is 'little' in dimensions when compared to the two other sonatas in the same key of D major (K...

None other than András Schiff is collaborating with Henle Publishers for the edition of Mozart's piano concertos. His piano reductions are aimed at amateurs rather than professionals; his fingerings f...

Beethoven only arranged one of his piano sonatas for a different instrumentation: an authentic arrangement of the Sonata op. 14 no. 1 for string quartet still exists (it is published in an appendix to...

'... 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...

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...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

There is much to celebrate in this Sonatina by this fine composer. Students and pianists of all ages will enjoy the uplifting and showy first movement, "A Festive Classic," the laid-back and charming...

Among the nocturnes in the present edition, five opuses include the word 'Nocturne' in their titles. Such is the case for opus 368, 604 and 647, the seventeen nocturnes recorded by Isabelle Oehmichen...