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(Italian/English version): Rossini's Barber of Seville is certainly the composer's best-known work and one of the most frequently performed operas of all time. This piano reduction follows the highly...

In his late piano sonatas Hob. XVI:40-42 (1784) and Hob. XVI:48-52 (1788-1795), Haydn shows himself to be a highly distinguished composer, accomplished in form and expression. As the quintessence of h...

Satie's "Ogives" and "Gymnopédies" are milestones of musical modernism. The metrically free "Ogives" (pointed arches) reflect the influence of French neo-Gothic and neo-Gregorianism in architecture an...

> Urtext editions based on all the sources and latest research findings > Easy to moderately difficult pieces > Ideal for teaching purposes > Optimum page-turns > Translations of all of Satie's French...

With his parodistic piano pieces about all kinds of sea creatures - with the grotesque title "Dried-up Embryos" - composed in the summer of 1913, Satie once again poked fun at himself and the musical...

- Moderate level of difficulty - Includes a glossary (Fr/Ger/Eng) - Notes on performance practice (Ger/Eng) - Detailed Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) Satie's progressive incidental m...

With his advanced incidental music from 1891/92, Satie explicitly turned against the French "Wagnérisme", but not in the sense of a parody. Composed on commission from the Rosicrucian and convinced Wa...

Debussy does not link his "12 Préludes" of the first volume by a tonal scheme, but by a chain of associative mottos or titles which he leaves at the end of each piece and which may give an indication...

Three years after the publication of the first volume, the second volume of Debussy's Préludes appeared in 1913, reflecting the impression of Stravinsky's music. In his new Urtext edition, musicologis...

I believe - without false vanity - that these three pieces will do well and take their place in the piano literature ... to the left of Schumann or to the right of Chopin ... as you like it, Debussy w...

I believe - without false vanity - that these three pieces will do well and take their place in the piano literature ... to the left of Schumann or to the right of Chopin ... as you like it, Debussy w...

It was unmistakably Liszt's piano work "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" that inspired Ravel to write one of his most famous works in 1901. The piece is formally conceived as a sonata form, dominated...

Ravel's cycle of "Valses nobles et sentimentales" caused irritation at the anonymous premiere in 1911 at the Société nationale indépendante in Paris: many suspected Satie or even Kodály as the compose...

Beethoven had promised his Horn Sonata op. 17 to one of the most famous horn players of his time, Johann Wenzel. Although, according to an anecdote from his pupil, he only composed the sonata on the d...

Piano music is of central importance in Fauré's oeuvre. He dedicated his "Ballade", composed in 1879, to his teacher Camille Saint-Saëns. It breaks with the epic form of the genre both through its lyr...

Fauré's '13 Barcarolles', composed over a period of almost four decades (1882-1921), are highly representative of his piano oeuvre and are considered his most characteristic works. They reflect his mo...

Fauré's four "Valses-Caprices" (1882/83-1894) (BA 10843) reflect various forms of his exploration of the waltz in connection with the free form of the caprice. The composer therefore received inspirat...

Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' remain a fundamental challenge for every harpsichordist and pianist to this day. The fact that Bach intended the work to be performed on a two-manual harpsichord poses a p...

Mit seinen im Sommer 1913 entstandenen parodistischen Klavierstücken über allerlei Seegetier - mit dem grotesken Titel 'Vertrocknete Embryos' machte sich Satie einmal mehr über sich und die Musikwelt...

The atmospheric cycle "Penultimate Thoughts" from 1915 belongs to the type of Satie's "story pieces" with underlying text phrases. The curious playing instructions of the three miniatures based on ost...

Beethoven's Sonata in C minor, his first great sonata and exemplary for the type of characteristic sonata of the late 18th century, has lost none of its fascination to this day due to its passionate p...

The Sonata in F minor op. 57 (1804/05) was not given the nickname "Appassionata" until 1838, long after Beethoven's death. Jonathan Del Mar now offers an Urtext edition whose principles are revealed i...

With the two sonatas of his Opus 27, Beethoven broke new formal ground at the beginning of the 19th century. Each named Sonata quasi una Fantasia, the second in particular became immortal under its la...

Beethoven's final three piano sonatas have always been a source of great fascination. Composed in 1820, the Sonata op. 109 opened the door to the future with its extreme expressivity, its abandonment...

Beethoven's last three piano sonatas have always exerted a great fascination. With the Sonata op. 109, composed in 1820, Beethoven opens the door to the future - through the highest expressivity, the...