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Brahms' Third Piano Quartet stands out for the extremely involved and complex history of its genesis. A very first version of certain sections - still in c sharp minor - had been written in 1855/56, b...

The composition cost him his sleep. In October 1842, when Schumann had finished his piano quintet in a short period of time, he was physically and emotionally drained. The work in no way reflects this...

Fingering: Klaus Schilde With part for clarinet in B flat/A Alexander Zemlinsky is mainly known for his operas and orchestral songs with their opulent late Romantic orchestration. His earlier, inspire...

In two private performances for Prince Lobkowitz in the spring of 1804, two new works by Beethoven were played for the first time: his Third Symphony op. 55 and the Triple Concerto op. 56 for piano, v...

A very readable foreword and extensive Critical Commentary with all necessary information enrich this Urtext edition by master Munich flautist and Mozart expert Henrik Wiese. One may learn there, for...

The Trio in G minor op. 63 for piano, flute and violoncello, published in 1820, is one of the few chamber music works by Carl Maria von Weber. In the finale one finds some echoes from Weber's probably...

'In the evening we played Robert's E-flat major Quartet for the first time ... and I was once again truly delighted at this beautiful and so youthful work', enthused Clara Schumann in 1842. In prepara...

This is Mozart's only piece of chamber music for the oboe - and no oboist would want to be without it! Like the Clarinet Quintet, the Oboe Quartet of 1781 was written for a friend: Friedrich Ramm, a m...

No serious musician and no serious orchestra can ignore this new Urtext edition of a major work of concerto literature, since the music text frequently diverges from that of previous editions. All the...

At certain points it will be like a serious song, at others like a happy dance …” This was how Dvo?ák described the work which he was composing at the time to a friend in 1890. The word 'Dumka” (plura...

This Trio's unusual scoring for horn, violin and piano prompted speculation early on about a possible background to it that had no connection with music. Brahms's biographer Max Kalbeck saw in it a la...

Max Bruch composed these eight, highly romantic pieces for his son Max Felix, a talented clarinettist. In order to enable the work to be played more widely, Bruch arranged the clarinet part for violin...

No romantic poetry and no concrete fairytale figure occasioned Schumann to write this composition. Today, we can assume that the title of the pieces, originally entitled 'Romances', was merely suppose...

As if looking back on his youth toward the end of his life, Richard Strauss wrote a second concerto for horn and orchestra, again in Eb major, around sixty years after his first concerto for horn. Thi...

Similar to Schumann's 'Concert Piece for Four Horns' op. 86 (HN 1138), Saint-Saëns' 'Morceau de Concert' was also written with the idea of exhausting the technical possibilities of a new valve horn co...

Even though the majority of Beethoven's wind chamber music works were composed for specific occasions with prescribed scorings, their importance is not limited by their functional nature. Beethoven al...

Mozart's 'daily bread' for horn players in a particularly delightful Urtext edition. The fragmentary Rondo is not only offered in the well-known Süßmayr version, but also in a very stylistically confi...

The composer and violin virtuoso Johann Stamitz not only established the world-famous Mannheim school in the 18th century but is known among clarinettists above all for presumably being the first to p...

This 'hit' is even popular among learners! Now it opens Henle's new series of Weber's works for clarinet and orchestra in piano reduction. This edition includes two separate parts: the urtext of Weber...

The most beautiful and significant clarinet concerto in the history of music is now appearing in a Henle urtext edition. The piano reduction is accompanied by two separate parts: an urtext edition of...

Now the Concertino and the First Clarinet Concerto are about to be followed by Weber's Second Concerto in E-flat major, edited by Norbert Gertsch. Once again, the piano reduction contrasts the origina...

For our Urtext edition of the Clarinet Sonata op. 167 we were able to consult the autograph for the first time. 'At the moment I am putting my last ounce of energy into giving seldom considered instru...

In 1894 Johannes Brahms asked the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld to visit him during his beloved summer sojourn in Ischl, adding "It would be really wonderful if you brought your B flat clarinet with y...

The Clarinet Concerto in c minor of 1809 is the very first work by Louis Spohr to grace our catalogue. The first in a series of four concertos written by Spohr for the virtuoso Johann Simon Hermstedt...

Louis Spohr's concertos have long been a standard feature in the clarinet repertoire, but up to now they have suffered due to a lack of reliable editions. In order to fill this gap, G. Henle Publisher...