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Die berühmteste der Fantasien, die 'Wandererfantasie', erscheint auch als Einzelausgabe. Als Schubert selbst einmal die Wandererfantasie im Freundeskreis spielte und dabei ins Stocken geriet, rief er...

The most famous of the fantasies, the Wanderer Fantasy, is also published as a single edition. When Schubert himself once played the Wanderer Fantasy with friends and faltered, he exclaimed impatientl...

There has been much debate about the significance of Liszt's late piano pieces. On the one hand, they are regarded as harbingers of the ageing Liszt's fading inspiration; on the other, they are praise...

The Fantasia in F minor op. 103 - D 940 which was completed in April 1828, the last year of Schubert's life, was followed in May by the equally popular Allegro in A minor op. post. 144 - D 947 and in...

The "Six Grandes Marches" op. 40 - D 819 are probably among Schubert's most impressive late works for piano four hands. He may have composed them during his second stay at Zselíz Castle, where he was...

The "Six Grandes Marches" op. 40 - D 819 are probably among Schubert's most impressive late works for piano four hands. He may have composed them during his second stay at Zselíz Castle, where he was...

Not only the price is impressive, but also the well-chosen, colorful cross-section of the Bärenreiter piano program, designed according to our Urtext colors. The cover is an eye-catcher. The compiled...

This pioneering edition of Jean Barraqué's 'Sonate pour piano' (1950-52) is the first to present this masterpiece from the heyday of serialism in a scholarly-critical Urtext edition. The new edition o...

The pioneering edition of Jean Barraqué's "Sonate pour piano" (1950-1952) is the first time that a work from the heyday of serial music has been made available in a source-critical Urtext edition. The...

The Czech composer František Xaver Dušek (1731-1799) was one of the most important figures in Prague's musical life in the second half of the 18th century. He was an outstanding pianist, composer and...

Otilie Suková was the daughter of Antonín Dvorák and the wife of Josef Suk. A gifted musician, she played the piano and wrote several compositions of her own, inspired by her musical surroundings. Fou...

Leopold Koželuch (also known as Koželuh), who lived in Vienna, was one of the leading figures in 18th century music and was also known in his time as an outstanding pianist and piano teacher. Six deli...

The sonatas for piano and harpsichord by Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781) are scattered throughout Europe in numerous copies, which testifies to their popularity at the time (among others, W. A. Mozart me...

Beethoven composed the works known as the "Elector Sonatas" in 1783 as a pupil of Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. "He would certainly become a second Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart if he progressed as he ha...

The earliest sketches for Beethoven's Grande Sonate op. 7 date from 1796 and the first edition was issued by the publisher Artaria, Vienna in October 1797. It is dedicated to Beethoven's pupil Anna Lu...

If the epithet "Appassionata" applies to one of Beethoven's sonatas, it is not the famous work in F minor op. 57, as Carl Czerny believed, but the E flat major sonata op. 7, which was written "in a ve...

Composed in 1800 and published as a 'Grande Sonate', Beethoven's Piano Sonata in B-flat major op. 22 marks the end of his first creative period. The only surviving handwritten source is a copyist's ma...

Beethoven's Piano Sonata in B flat major op. 22, composed in 1800, marks the end of his first creative phase. The only surviving manuscript source of the work, which was entitled "Grande Sonate" in th...

Beethoven’s four-movement Sonata in A-flat major op. 26 belongs to his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Lichnowsky, one of his most generous patrons and the dedicatee of, for example, the...

Beethoven's four-movement Sonata in A flat major op. 26 is one of his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky, one of his most important patrons, to whom Beethoven also dedic...

With the sonatas op. 31, composed in 1802, Beethoven brought together piano sonatas as a group for the last time. The highlight of the collection is undoubtedly the middle work in D minor, whose drama...

The Sonata in F major op. 54, written in 1804 immediately after the highly virtuoso "Waldstein" Sonata, is still unjustly overshadowed by its predecessor and the subsequent "Appassionata" in F minor o...

It is hard to imagine that this very lyrical and moderately difficult piano sonata in the unusual key of F sharp major was preceded by the highly dramatic Sonata in f op. 57 ("Appassionata", BA 10852)...

Composed in 1809-10, Beethoven's Sonata op. 81a expresses his very personal feelings. He titled its three movements 'Das Lebewohl' (The Farewell), 'Die Abwesenheit' (The Absence) and 'Das Wiedersehn'...

Beethoven incorporated very personal impressions into his Sonata op. 81a, composed in 1809/10, with the movement titles "Das Lebewohl", "Die Abwesenheit" and "Das Wiedersehn". The compositional trigge...