Henle Verlag Sheet Music

What might have occasioned Mozart to rework his original Serenade for sextet into a version for octet (with two oboes) only a few months after he had completed it? Was there an 'external” cause? Once...

Reicha published a total of 24 wind quintets for the 'classical' scoring of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon; op. 88 no. 2 is one of the best-loved and most played. 'If it were possible to surp...

Beethoven's Opus 71 is one of a series of works for mixed wind instruments, which he composed in the 1790s. In 1805 at a performance of the dance-like, lively work in Vienna, the audience praised its...

Frédéric Chopin composed his piano trio when he was an 18-year-old student. About the performance of the trio on 31 August 1830 he wrote: 'On Sunday we rehearsed the trio. Perhaps because I haven't he...

In June 1905, Ravel told a friend shortly before setting off on a long holiday: 'I was terribly busy because of a piece for harp commissioned by the Érard company. I was able to finish it after a fash...

With his clarinet quintet, begun in 1915, Reger was remembering his role models Mozart and Brahms, whose works in this genre he particularly admired. This melancholic quintet that is worked through in...

This work, composed in 1878/79, alternates between chamber music intimacy and symphonic opulence, and marks the beginning of a series of significant late works by César Franck. Its composition was par...

The scoring of Schubert's Auf dem Strom (On the River) for voice, horn and piano is reminiscent of that of the Hirt auf dem Felsen (Shepherd on the Rock, HN 969) with obligato clarinet. Both pieces we...

The Divertimento K. 247 in B-flat major was composed for the name day of Countess Antonia Lodron, and was first performed on 18 June 1776 in Salzburg. The little March K. 248 was presumably used to ac...

With hardly any other chamber music work did Dvorák occupy himself as long and intensively as with this trio. After his first successes with works inspired by Czech folk music, namely the popular Slav...

After early elimination from the competition for the "Prix de Rome," the coveted award for composition students at the Paris Conservatoire, Chausson withdrew to the countryside in the summer of 1881 a...

This Henle edition is full of mistakes! The publisher can freely admit this, because the odd notes here all come from Mozart himself - he consciously inserted them into his Musical Joke. In this amusi...

The idea for this, the penultimate work in Fauré's oeuvre, came in 1922 from his publisher Jacques Durand, who had published Ravel's famous Piano Trio just a few years earlier. Fauré initially did not...

Mozart often began work on a composition only to put it aside, unfinished. Some of these fragments contain wonderful music, as is proved by these three piano trio fragments. Mozart composed them at di...

Brahms had in fact wanted to stop composing in 1890, but his encounter with the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld inspired him so much that he produced several works in a row for him over a brief period o...

Since 2019, G. Henle Publishers has been the proud agent for Evgeny Kissin’s compositions, which have reached work number 6 with this Piano Trio composed in 2022. Following piano pieces, a violoncello...

Schubert's 22 piano sonatas sketch a very illuminating picture of the prematurely departed composer's compositional path. From the first essays of the gifted young 16- to 19-year old, one can trace a...

Completed on 1 January 1885, the Piano Quartet is, alongside the Cello Sonata op. 6 and the Violin Sonata op. 18, one of the most substantial chamber music works by the young Strauss. The four-movemen...

The Fantasy Pieces op. 88 are Schumann's first contribution to the genre of the piano trio and date from his very prolific 'chamber music year' 1842. However, Schumann needed an unusually long time to...

Sometimes the symphonies ... are destined to showcase the musicians' talents' - a music dictionary of the time thus commented on a new genre, the 'Symphonie concertante'. The playful competition betwe...

This overture was commissioned by the Jewish ensemble “Simro”, which was made up of six former classmates from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, whom Prokofiev met again in New York in 1919. They wante...

This chamber music work, composed in 1907/08, marks a turning point not only in Schönberg's output, but also for the history of modern music in general. Major-minor tonality, obligatory for centuries...

Directly after composing his first violin sonata, Fauré wrote another great chamber music work with the Piano Quartet op. 15. This youthful, fresh composition met with wide approval at its premiere in...

Inspired by the success of his First Piano Quartet, published in 1884, the composer began a second work in this genre only a short time later. The style is considerably more serene and individual than...

For several years following composition of his first piano quartet, Dvořák's publisher Simrock pushed him to compose a follow-up piece in the genre. The work, written during a few short weeks in summe...