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The ups and downs of disappointed love: who could fail to sympathize with the feelings that Schumann immortalized in his song cycle Dichterliebe after Heine? The pieces range from hopeful anticipation...

The ups and downs of disappointed love: who could fail to sympathize with the feelings that Schumann immortalized in his song cycle Dichterliebe after Heine? The pieces range from hopeful anticipation...

The Liederkreis op. 39, first published in 1842, remains one of Schumann's most important song cycles to this day, and not only because of the famous 'Mondnacht'. Eight years later, Schumann revised h...

The Liederkreis op. 39, first published in 1842, remains one of Schumann's most important song cycles to this day, and not only because of the famous 'Mondnacht'. Eight years later, Schumann revised h...

Immerse yourself in the profound romanticism of Johannes Brahms’ masterpiece: With "Feldeinsamkeit" ("Ich ruhe still im hohen grünen Gras" Op. 86 No. 2), the composer created one of the most atmospher...

The Bavarian State Library in Munich made a quite sensational discovery in 2007: a previously unknown Lied for Voice (soprano) and Piano by Franz Liszt was found, which he had written down himself. Th...

Urtext of the New Schubert Complete Edition in both original key and transposition, edited by Walther Dürr. A coproduction with Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel. Contents: An Emma op. 58 D 113 Auf dem See o...

Urtext of the New Schubert Complete Edition in both original key and transposition, edited by Walther Dürr. A coproduction with Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel. Contents: Am Grabe Anselmos op. 6,3 D 504 Am...

This first edition of the 'Regenlied' cycle is only available from G. Henle Publishers. In the preface, Michael Struck, an eminent Brahms scholar, writes about the distinctiveness of the work, until n...

The ups and downs of disappointed love: who could fail to sympathize with the feelings that Schumann immortalized in his song cycle Dichterliebe after Heine? The pieces range from hopeful anticipation...

As with the 'Dichterliebe' (HN549), 'Frauenliebe und Leben' (HN547) or the song cycles with texts by Heine and Eichendorff (HN548 and 550), the 'Kerner Cycle op. 35' was written in 1840, Schumann's 'L...

As the new house composer at the Theater an der Wien, Beethoven had an opportunity to perform an oratorio during Passiontide in 1803. In a very short space of time he drew up his one and only work for...

When Haydn stopped in Passau on his second journey to England, he heard a vocal version of his own orchestral work 'The Seven Last Words'. It had been made by the Kapellmeister at Passau cathedral Jos...

Haydn returned from his second trip to England in 1795 deeply impressed by the performances of Handel in Westminster Abbey with their large number of musicians. In his pocket he had an English librett...

We are marking Joseph Haydn's anniversary year (the bicentenary of his death) in style. We are not only publishing very affordable study scores of all of his oratorios, following the musical text in t...

The Trois Chorals are amongst Franck's best-known works. They are characterised by great religious solemnity and were intended more for the concert organ as far as their dimensions are concerned. Many...

At the end of the 18th century, the town of Cádiz in southern Spain provided the backdrop for a Passion to mark Christ's hour of death; its focal point was the reading and interpretation of Christ's l...

Whose ears are not instantly filled with the dreamy flute solo when Debussy's 'Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune' is mentioned? Very few people know that before he wrote the orchestral score Debussy m...

The Scottish General Meredith Read called on Debussy in 1890 with a rather unusual request: Read acquainted the composer with a traditional bagpipe melody from his home country and asked him to write...

In summer 1891 Scriabin hurt his right hand through too much practice. For this reason he cultivated his playing with his left hand for which he composed his Prélude et Nocturne op. 9 in 1894. Both pi...

Scriabin's ideal of music as part of a synthesis of the arts, raising people to a higher level of consciousness, is particularly apparent in his late work 'Vers la flamme' op. 72. The poème opens with...

The first movement of Maurice Ravel's Sonatine for piano was probably written in 1903. At any rate the composer played it on 8 January 1904 at a soirée held at the salon of Marguerite de Saint-Marceau...

The Six Sonatas K. 279-284 were probably written around the beginning of 1775. Mozart refers to them in letters that he sent to his father from his trip to Paris (1777-79). In these letters he often r...

Mozart assembled this sonata from two parts that had been composed at different times. The Rondo K. 494 is from 1786. It was only in January 1788 that Mozart composed the two pieces K. 533, and had Ho...

The three popular Intermezzi op. 117 can be seen as the epitome of Brahms' late work for piano. Clara Schumann confessed: 'In these pieces I at last feel musical life stir once again in my soul'. Brah...