Henle Horizons Sheet Music

Published in early 1806, Kreutzer’s "40 Études ou Caprices" for violin – there are 42 today – are the product of his years-long employment at the Conservatoire de Paris and are the most comprehensive...

Popular epithets of classical works often do not stem from the composer – but in the case of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, it is different: "Pastoral Symphony or Recollections of country life. More an e...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel was one of the most famous pianists of his time, who could even compete with Beethoven. Among his numerous compositions for piano solo, the Sonata in F-sharp minor op. 81 stands...

Manuel de Falla’s "Serenata andaluza" was composed around 1900 and already displays the young composer’s distinctive style: melodies inspired by Spanish folklore and rousing Andalusian rhythms mix wit...

Composed in 1915 for coloratura soprano Antonina Nezhdanova, Rachmaninoff’s wordless "Vocalise", with its flowing, wistful theme, quickly became a worldwide hit. Numerous arrangements honour this uniq...

After the first edition of Beethoven’s Serenade op. 8 for string trio of 1797, there followed within a few years numerous arrangements for a wide variety of scorings which are largely unknown today. T...

Anyone who loves Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata will sooner or later come across Nikolay Myaskovsky – one of the leading figures in early twentieth-century Soviet music. Myaskovsky studied with Rimsky-Ko...

Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturnes number among the most intimate and at the same time most artistic examples of Romantic piano poetry. Composed between 1830 and 1846, they reflect Chopin’s mature expressive...

In 2023 cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and pianist Alexandre Tharaud released a CD with the music of the legendary French gambist Marin Marais, newly arranged by the two artists. The album caused a sensa...

Robert Fuchs (1847–1927), playfully nicknamed the "Serenade fox" (fox is Fuchs in German) by his contemporaries such as Johannes Brahms, is largely unknown today. He owes his posthumous fame above all...

Erwin Schulhoff’s String Duo for Violin and Cello, composed in 1925, is the perfect example of the modern, adventurous compositional style of the "Roaring Twenties". In this radical work, the Czech-Je...

The Passacaglia by Johan Halvorsen is a musical masterpiece full of virtuosity and emotional depth; in an exciting manner, it blends Handel’s Baroque style with Halvorsen’s Romantic tonal language. Th...

Jules Massenet is considered one of the great masters of French opera. Thanks to its emotional expressiveness, the famous "Méditation" from his opera "Thaïs" (1894) remains one of the most popular wor...

What one has so long and so boisterously merely played, is awkward to write down. With this charming self-irony, Johannes Brahms described the lively origins of his Hungarian Dances, whose rousing rhy...

It does not always have to be Sarasate – the "Carmen Fantasy" by Hungarian violin virtuoso Jenő Hubay is also well worth discovering! Composed in 1876/77, it is considered an early example of his mast...

Celebrated as the "King of the Violin", Eugène Ysaÿe influenced modern violin playing like few others. A pupil of Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski, he was also a composer who combined technical brilliance wi...

The "Suite populaire espagnole" by violin virtuoso Paul Kochanski combines characteristic Spanish rhythms with the finest chamber music elegance. The basis is Falla’s song cycle "Siete canciones popul...

His "Perpetuo mobile" is well-known to many violinists: Carl Bohm (1844–1920) was one of the most popular masters of German salon music, and in the late nineteenth century his catchy melodies enraptur...

Countless arrangements and transcriptions allow the Czardas by Vittorio Monti (1868–1922) to shine in ever new tonal colours – yet the original version for violin and accompaniment stands unchallenged...

Schubert’s "Trockne Blumen" rediscovered: this sensitive arrangement by star violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann transports Schubert’s own variations on his song from "Die schöne Müllerin" – for flute an...

What one has so long and so boisterously merely played, is awkward to write down. With this charming self-irony, Johannes Brahms described the lively origins of his Hungarian Dances, whose rousing rhy...

What one has so long and so boisterously merely played, is awkward to write down. With this charming self-irony, Johannes Brahms described the lively origins of his Hungarian Dances, whose rousing rhy...

What one has so long and so boisterously merely played, is awkward to write down. With this charming self-irony, Johannes Brahms described the lively origins of his Hungarian Dances, whose rousing rhy...

What one has so long and so boisterously merely played, is awkward to write down. With this charming self-irony, Johannes Brahms described the lively origins of his Hungarian Dances, whose rousing rhy...

Only few etude works were originally conceived for the viola – that of Leipzig composer Friedrich Hermann is one of them. In 1881 the pupil of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wrote six virtuoso etudes in...