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The first set of Slavonic Dances, edited by Dvorak expert Klaus Döge, constituted a small series of works in 1996, which continued to grow in the following years.

Something "completely new and unheard-of" would be offered to the audience, Robert Schumann wrote to Franz Liszt at the end of 1851, referring to the premiere of his "dramatic poem" Manfred. Already a...

Oh, the tempi! A terrible thing!, Dvorák repeatedly complained. Not without reason, as the renowned Dvorák expert Klaus Döge found in the edition of the '8th'.

With the 'Kullervo' premiere in 1892, Jean Sibelius, already at the age of 27, announced his claim as a symphonist far ahead of the purely instrumental symphonies and tone poems. Urtext according to t...

Complete for the first time: Mozart's 'zeroth' Horn ConcertoWhen two sheets with 60 additional measures to the well-known Rondo K. 371 appeared in 1988, it was a sensational discovery.

Immediately after the 12 string symphonies (1821-1823), the 15-year-old Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wrote a 'Sinfonia XIII' in C minor in March 1824.

Mendelssohn's Double Concerto in D minor is now no rare guest on concert programs.

Cliff Eisen is responsible for a secure original text based on the autograph and knowledge of historical performance practice. Andrew Manze completes the edition with his instrumentally appropriate an...

The triple 'Hafner-Musique' Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the Hafner Symphony K. 385 in the summer of 1782 on the occasion of the nobilization of his friend and patron Sigmund Hafner. In addition t...

The fact that the Sibelius Symphony, which is now performed most often, provoked controversial aesthetic reactions after its first performances in Finland at the time seems almost inconceivable today.

Russian music researcher Polina Vajdman has gone back to all relevant sources in her editing.

Mendelssohn's overture was inspired by two poems by Goethe, which had already inspired Ludwig van Beethoven to write a choral work accompanied by orchestra. The main work on this piece probably took p...

For the premiere in London on May 14, 1832, he prepared a fundamental new version, and Mendelssohn continued to fine-tune details until the first printing of the score, which was published by Breitkop...

A visit to the opera provided the impetus for dealing with the fairy-tale theme of the knight Raimund's love for the beautiful mermaid Melusine, which forms the basis of Mendelssohn's fourth concert o...

A visit to the opera provided the impetus for dealing with the fairy-tale theme of the knight Raimund's love for the beautiful mermaid Melusine, which forms the basis of Mendelssohn's fourth concert o...

For the 'Fidelio' overture, composed at lightning speed in 1814, a copy of the score in the Austrian National Library today provides a reliable basis for a new text-critical edition.

Schumann's 'Sinfonietta' in the Urtext The intensity with which Schumann dealt with the symphony is shown not only by the four known works themselves, but also by compositions that stand between the g...

On their way to Salzburg, Constanze and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a stopover in Linz in the fall of 1783. The stay was productive: the 13-voice, four-movement Linz Symphony was created. To compose...

1936 erhielt Béla Bartók von seinem Schweizer Mäzen Paul Sacher den Kompositionsauftrag zur "Musik für Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug und Celesta". Bartók gelang dabei eines der großen Meisterwerke des...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...

… a forest god in New York The symphonic poem Tapiola is the final major composition for orchestra that Sibelius was able to complete and publish. In January 1926 he had accepted the commission from t...

Gewiss hatte Robert Schumann recht, als er bald nach Beethovens Tod konstatierte, dass dessen Konzeption von der Sinfonie als großem, universellem Bekenntniswerk von der nächsten Komponistengeneration...

Die Ouvertüre zu Ruy Blas, die letzte von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy komponierte Ouvertüre, ist nicht als frei konzipierte Partitur, sondern als Eröffnungsstück einer Bühnenmusik entstanden. Allerdin...