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Tchaikovsky wrote his Children's Album in the summer of 1878. Following the example of Schumann's Album für die Jugend, the 24 miniatures are not only technically easy to play but also directly relate...

The small Preludes and Fugues, as they are not unjustly entitled, reveal with their various differences of quality and origin the didactic side of Bach. Both the early works, i. e. Bach's own studies,...

Modest Mussorgsky composed the piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s wystawki) within a short period of time, between 2nd and 22nd June 1874. At the instigation of the art critic Vladimir...

With these three volumes Vienna Urtext Edition presents the first critical edition of Schubert's entire piano sonata output published in chrono-logical order. The musical text, newly revised from the...

Chopin's nocturnes seem to be the most romantic; together with the mazurkas, they belong to the group of works by the master which is also accessible to the less experienced player. Both may explain t...

A piano piece in E flat major, with the simple title 'Lied' (song) was Felix Mendelssohn's surprise present to his sister Fanny on her birthday on 14 November 1828. Shortly afterwards she referred to...

This new Wiener Urtext Edition presents Bach's Chromatic Fantasy not just in the traditional form but contains two additional versions, one late and one early. The early version is based on sources pr...

In his preface, the editor outlines the history of the Italian concerto form up to the unaccompanied solo concerto, of which Bach's Concerto nach Italiaenischen Gusto may be regarded as the pinnacle w...

The forest as a Romantic ideal space also plays an important role in this cyclically organized whole through the planned arrangement of the keys and motivic relationships between the individual pieces...

Friedrich Burgmüller would probably be completely forgotten today if he had not made his name with the easy but brilliantsounding etudes composed in his capacity as an experienced teacher. Born in Reg...

At the request of many customers, Wiener Urtext Edition now publishes the much sought-after two-volume edition of the Etudes by Frédéric Chopin (Etudes Op. 10, Etudes Op. 25, and Trois Nouvelles Etude...

For more than 200 years Mozart's piano sonatas have been part of every pianist's repertoire. Research done over the last few decades has made it possible, however, to establish more accurate dating an...

For more than 200 years Mozart's piano sonatas have been part of every pianist's repertoire. Research done over the last few decades has made it possible, however, to establish more accurate dating an...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias, better known as two- and three-part inventions, were an integral part of the teaching repertoire used in the composer’s piano lessons. And...

When Christa Landon presented her printed edition of Joseph Haydn's piano sonatas for the first time, Haydn's sonata works were still overshadowed by the works of Mozart and Beethoven. But Haydn's son...

At the age of four, Mozart astounded his father with his understanding of the piano. His first works were simple dance settings written when he was five, at which point his musical abilities were deve...

For more than 200 years Mozart's piano sonatas have been part of every pianist's repertoire. Research done over the last few decades has made it possible, however, to establish more accurate dating an...

At first glance, this work maybe eclipsed by the earlier Sonata in B major, KV 333 but Mozart's Sonata KV 570 is by the far the more popular work, especially in piano lessons. This maybe due to its mo...

Very few works in music history have been associated with the phrase 'epoch-making' yet Arcangelo Corelli's Trio Sonatas are among them. In 1681 and 1685, with the composition of Sonate da chiesa Op....

Apart from various insignificant emendations relating to accidentals and ornamentation, this 1997 revision of Bach's Welltempered Clavier contains a remarkable correction in the musical text of the B...

Robert Schumann's intention to create valuable and, with regard to didactics, sensibly created music for children and young people was not limited to the world-famous Album für die Jugend Op. 68 for p...

Although Robert Schumann absolutely loved to play a duet, he wrote only few works for piano duet. Created in 1848, Bilder aus dem Osten Op. 66 was one of the best-known and most frequently played work...