Mozart for Piano

Ausgewählte Vortragsstücke für die Unter- bis Mittelstufe herausgegeben von Heinz Schüngeler

The Six Sonatas K. 279-284 were probably written around the beginning of 1775. Mozart refers to them in letters that he sent to his father from his trip to Paris (1777-79). In these letters he often r...

Mozart assembled this sonata from two parts that had been composed at different times. The Rondo K. 494 is from 1786. It was only in January 1788 that Mozart composed the two pieces K. 533, and had Ho...

In his letters Mozart described his early Piano Sonatas K. 270-284 as being 'difficult sonatas'. He was probably referring less to the refinements of performance and more to the demands of aesthetics...

When Maria Anna Mozart, known as Nannerl, was to receive piano lessons, her father gave her a music book in which he and others gradually wrote down little recital pieces. Her brother Wolfgang Amadeus...

Especially easy-to-play minuets by the only eight-year-old Mozart open this volume. A successful mixture of the well-known and the unusual leads the player to the profound D minor Fantasy. A special f...

Throughout his life Mozart composed individual pieces for the keyboard. This wealth of material offers us an exceptional insight into his musical development. For the first time ever, we are now offer...

C minor is traditionally the key of drama, passion, pathos, and pain, which also applies here in Mozart's famous C minor sonata K. 457. He wrote it in October 1784, though what might have triggered th...

A rondo for piano solo,' noted Mozart in his personal work catalogue on 11 March 1787 - and there is little more to add about the origins of this piece, which Mozart sent off to print shortly thereaft...

Mozart wrote all of his piano concertos for himself 'or for a small circle of amateurs and connoisseurs', which resulted in the fact that - excepting a few - they were not published during his lifetim...

When Günter Henle founded his Urtext publishing house in 1948, he opened his catalogue with our two-volume edition of Mozart's complete piano sonatas; these still bear the publisher's numbers HN 1 and...

When Günter Henle founded his Urtext publishing house in 1948, he opened his catalogue with our two-volume edition of Mozart's complete piano sonatas; these still bear the publisher's numbers HN 1 and...

Throughout his life Mozart composed individual pieces for the keyboard. This wealth of material offers us an exceptional insight into his musical development. For the first time ever, we are now offer...

Piano lovers will find 'their' Mozart for solo piano in fully commentated editions. The piano variations and the brand new revision of the piano pieces, which are simultaneously being published in Urt...