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In 1735 Bach published the Italian Concerto, presented here in a revised separate edition, together with the French Overture in the second part of his “Clavier Übung”. The two works were intended to r...

The epithet "English Suites" - as with the "French Suites" - did not originate with Bach himself. In contrast to the six intimate French Suites, Bach's English Suites adopt a grander tone, each one op...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his five large piano concertos over a period of twenty years. His Fourth Concerto in G major op. 58, largely written in 1805/06, is here presented in a piano reduction fo...

The substantial cycle, published in 1853, unites splendid concert pieces (Bénédiction and Funérailles) and simple, short compositions, which partly make use of Gregorian modes. The volume was composed...

The first Prelude from volume I of the Well-Tempered Clavier is among the most-played pieces in the piano repertoire. Though it seems easy to play, this is misleading since the performer must build up...

In spring 1865 Brahms surprised his friends and acquaintances with 16 little waltzes for piano four-hands. He informed his friend the well-known critic Eduard Hanslick about this in April 1866, saying...

At last these two highlights of Liszt's piano output are available in a good value 'Urtext'! Every pianist knows the poetic, highly virtuosic legends about Liszt's famous namesakes, 'St. Francis of As...

In 1836 Chopin introduced the term 'ballad' into piano music with the publication of his Ballad op. 23, although up to then it had only been used in literature and in vocal music. Indeed, all four of...

Already our first volume of original piano works by Mozart's youngest son made the music world take notice. The second volume now completes the collection of works by this composer who is often undere...

Mendelssohn's viola sonata is one of his many early works which remained unpublished in his lifetime. The autograph is dated 'd. 14 Febr. 1824'. Thus Mendelssohn was 15 years old when he completed the...

In 1838 Robert Schumann complained: 'The piano is becoming too narrow for me. I often hear in my current compositions a lot of things that I can hardly indicate'. Thus, in 1840, Schumann dedicated him...

Hummels 'Potpourri' for Viola and Orchestra op. 94 is part of every viola player's core re­pertoire, especially in its shortened version, the 'Fantasy'. Sprinkled with quotes from operas by Mozart and...

Aside from his popular Violin Concerto no. 1, 'Kol Nidrei' numbers among Max Bruch's most famous compositions. The melancholy 'Adagio after Hebrew melodies' was written in 1880 for the cellist Robert...

Joseph Haydn's concertos for violoncello and orchestra stand out for their lightness and elegance. The Concerto in C major Hob. VIIb:1 was most likely written between 1762 and 1765, when Haydn was alr...

Edvard Grieg's only Cello Sonata remains one of the best kept secrets among cellists. Grieg wrote it for his brother John, an accomplished player of the instrument. Though not a string player himself,...

A few years ago we published the 'Elephant' from the 'Carnival of the Animals'. The curtain now rises for a further performance: the proud and elevated solo of the 'Swan'. Charles-Joseph Lebouc organi...

In the 1910s, a romantic infatuation for the harpist Eleonora Damskaja moved the young Sergei Prokofiev to compose three short pieces for harp and dedicate them to her. Two of these compositions later...

Two of Joseph Haydn's three concertos for horn and orchestra have been lost, while two further horn concertos have often been mistakenly ascribed to him. Haydn's sole surviving horn concerto, whose au...

Along with Robert Schumann's identically titled op. 73, the Fantasiestücke of 1864 by the Danish composer Niels Wilhelm Gade are an essential part of the repertoire of all clarinettists. Gade lived in...

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...

In a letter to Erwin Schulhoff, Berg bitterly complained about his unsuccessful attempt to find a publisher for his 'Pieces for Clarinet', 'Once again at my own expense! A few antique pieces in my apa...

More than a few experts and aficionados count Mozart's string trio in E-flat major K. 563 among his most magnificent compositions. This masterwork, entered into Mozart's own catalogue of works on 27 S...

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...

Instrumental virtuosity and the new impulses of baroque thought are to be found in the solo sonatas that came into being in Italy from the early decades of the 17th century. Both aspects have been tak...

Solo sonatas written in Italy in the early decades of the 17th century dazzle with originality, imaginative impulses and instrumental virtuosity - aspects that have all been taken into consideration w...