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Did Mozart intend this work to be a duo for two bass instruments, or - as the simple basso-like manner of the second part suggests - a sonata for bassoon and keyboard instrument? We will probably neve...

Written in March 1886 as a humorous occasional work for the traditional carnival concert organized by his cellist friend Charles-Joseph Lebouc, the Carnival of the Animals was so successful that Saint...

It is hardly surprising that Beethoven did not write any more chamber music for winds after 1800. Following the change to middle-class musical culture, demand declined for buoyant serenades and divert...

After an early work and a discontinued attempt in 1831/32 Mendelssohn made his breakthrough in this important chamber music genre in the summer of 1839 with the Piano Trio in d minor op. 49, which was...

Debussy wrote these two short dances to a commission from the instrument-making firm of Pleyel, which was keen to use famous names in the marketing of its newly-developed chromatic harp. The dances ar...

'Something quite curious, I believe' - it was thus that Robert Schumann described the Concert Piece for four Horns and large orchestra in a letter, and he did indeed break new ground with this work as...

The horn is surely the most 'romantic' of instruments, and it is a well-known fact that it plays a prominent role in Weber's oeuvre. Der Freischütz and Oberon would be unthinkable without their horn c...

In the summer of 1888, while also working on his tone poem Don Juan, Richard Strauss composed this brief Andante for his father, Franz Strauss, a member of the Munich Court Opera and one of the greate...

Henrik Wiese has created a great stir in recent years with his many Mozart editions for Henle. He adheres strictly to Mozart's autograph score, allowing only a few sporadic editorial additions and dis...

Oddly, Mozart wrote out the score of his most famous horn concerto not only in black ink but also in red, green, and blue. Whether he meant this as a genial prank or had higher aspirations in mind wil...

This edition completes our series of all three clarinet concertos by the Swedish composer and clarinetist Bernhard Henrik Crusell. It appeared as his first printed work in Leipzig in 1811, but was cer...

Robert Schumann in fact composed just one work for the clarinete, namely the 'Drei Fantasiestücke' op. 73 for clarinet and piano of February 1849. But the 'Drei Romanzen' op. 94 for oboe, written at t...

Originally written for the final year clarinet examination at the Paris Conservatoire, Debussy's 'Première Rhapsodie” has quickly become a bestseller of the clarinet repertoire, being a highly impress...

Carl Nielsen's 'Fantasy Pieces' for Oboe and Piano were composed in 1889/90. Having just gained a position as a violinist in the Royal Danish Orchestra, Nielsen had already experienced success with hi...

'Oboe Concerto 1945, inspired by an American soldier, (oboist from Chicago)' - was what Richard Strauss noted down. And the oboist and soldier with the American occupation John de Lancie had indeed as...

This Henle Urtext edition in unrivalled in layout and precision. The professional journal 'Rohrblatt' wrote shortly after its publication (in 2004): 'An editorial stroke of genius … Every oboist who a...

Both of these works for two oboes and cor anglais, which Beethoven composed in the 1790s, belong to the lighter genre of serenades and divertimentos. He might have written them in response to a commis...

We know very little about Mozart’s Divertimento in D major K. 334, which is still popular today: an autograph has not been preserved, and in the two editions published after Mozart’s death there are i...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s harpsichord concertos, which are hugely popular today, once offered the composer a real field for experimentation. Bach often used pre-existing material. Thus, there is much to...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s harpsichord concertos, which are hugely popular today, once offered the composer a real field for experimentation. Bach often used pre-existing material. Thus, there is much to...

It would be hard to imagine today’s concert repertoire without the harpsichord concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is not known whether the A-major Concerto BWV 1055, like some of the other harpsic...

It would be hard to imagine today’s concert repertoire without the harpsichord concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is not known whether the A-major Concerto BWV 1055, like some of the other harpsic...

We know very little about Mozart’s Divertimento in D major K. 334, which is still popular today: an autograph has not been preserved, and in the two editions published after Mozart’s death there are i...

We know very little about Mozart’s Divertimento in D major K. 334, which is still popular today: an autograph has not been preserved, and in the two editions published after Mozart’s death there are i...

We know very little about Mozart’s Divertimento in D major K. 334, which is still popular today: an autograph has not been preserved, and in the two editions published after Mozart’s death there are i...