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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...

Frédéric Chopin's 24 Préludes, Op. 28 represent one of the most mesmerizing milestones in Romantic piano literature. In breathtaking brevity, each of these 24 distinct musical gems unfolds its own dee...

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...

The four-movement suite, composed in 1890, is characteristic of Debussy's creative period, in which he mixed modern and ancient elements. The term bergamasque, which originally referred to a Renaissan...

The 1725 Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach is chiefly famous for pieces such as the two minuets in G major and G minor (Nos. 4 and 5 in the present collection) and the Aria di Giovannini. These three, i...

The polonaises are regarded as one of the most important genres in the compositional oeuvre of Frédéric Chopin, some of them even as some of his most popular compositions. Their spectrum ranges from e...

The 'Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen vors Clavicimbal' was given its common title 'Goldberg Variations' by Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who in turn relied on reports from Bach's elder sons, because it...

The Kinderszenen, composed in the spring of 1838, are among the best-known and most popular works in piano literature. No. 7 in particular, the Träumerei, began an unprecedented triumphal march throug...

These 51 exercises 'for the Pianoforte' were published in 1893 by Brahms. Ever since they have been regarded as key exercises, custom made for developing the smooth pianistic technique that is an esse...

Alongside the Impromptus, the Moments musicaux are among Franz Schubert's best-known and most popular piano compositions. The Wiener Urtext Edition now presents a new edition based on the latest resea...

Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos is one of the key works of 20th-century piano music. The repertoire comprises educational pieces 'from the very first beginning' as well as concert literature, thus making th...

These two sonatas in C major (KV 545) and A major (KV 331) are among the most popular of all Mozart's piano sonatas. KV 545 is a firm favourite with piano teachers and their pupils (for many pianists...

The nine sonatas for violoncello and basso continuo by Antonio Vivaldi are among the best-known cello works of the Baroque era. Thanks to their moderate technical demands, the pieces have a firm place...

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...

Robert Schumann wrote his Fantasy pieces op. 73 originally for clarinet and piano. The first edition of Schumann's Fantasy Pieces op. 73 published in July 1849 contained not only a clarinet part but a...

The Wiener Urtext edition of Telemann's Fantasies is based on the first print published by the composer himself. The few obvious mistakes in the music have been corrected. In the critical notes the ed...

Robert Schumann wrote his Fantasy Pieces for clarinet and piano in the course of two days in February 1849. Only a few days later they were premiered by Clara Schumann and the Dresden clarinetist Joha...

Immerse yourself in timeless masterpieces for violin and piano: This premium Urtext edition by the renowned Wiener Urtext Edition presents captivating sonatas in their purest, most authentic form. Met...

Discover a timeless masterpiece of chamber music: Franz Schubert's Sonata (Sonatina) in D major, Op. 137/1, D 384 for violin and piano has enchanted listeners and performers for generations with its y...

The sonatina op. 100, written during Dvorák's stay in the USA in 1893, is dedicated to his six children. On January 2, 1894, the composer wrote to his publisher Simrock: Thank God, I am healthy and we...

Antonio Vivaldi's sonatas for violin and basso continuo are among the most valuable works written between the violin sonatas by Arcangelo Corelli and those by Johann Sebastian Bach. With his 12 Sonata...

Telemann's fantasias for solo violin, like his fantasias for solo flute, form a varied collection of twelve pieces. Half of them follow the model of the sonata da chiesa and the other half the model o...