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Lili Boulanger was the sister of the famous teacher Nadia Boulanger who taught Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter and Philip Glass amongst others. She was a composer for the last 10 years of her tragically...

Laut der Enzyklopädie "Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart" wurde die "Sicilienne" bekannt durch die Bearbeitung für Violine und Klavier von Samuel Dushkin. Die von ihm verwendete Tonart ist Es-Dur. In...

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...

Edward Elgar's Salut d'amour is one of those pieces by the British composer that has a particularly haunting melody. The short work also had a special significance for the composer. Caroline Alice Rob...

This highly virtuosic concert piece, composed in 1863, is one of the works that Saint-Saëns wrote especially for his friend Pablo de Sarasate. The great violin virtuosos of the 19th century delighted...

The 19th century was a heyday for arrangements of all kinds. So it was natural that the composer and violin virtuoso Sarasate should turn to this genre to expand his repertoire. He composed numerous f...

Inspired by Béla Bartók's violin sonatas, Ravel planned his own sonata for violin and piano in 1922, but initially did not get beyond sketches. After several interruptions, the work was not completed...

When composing his Spanish Dances (HN1370), the composer and violin virtuoso Sarasate united existing material - folk songs and songs by well-known composers - with his own uniquely charming musical l...

With marked and unmarked string part 1873 was a turning point for Dvorák. Precipitated by the rejection of his opera 'The King and the Charcoal Burner', he tried to give his compositions a new directi...

Just like many other violin virtuosos of the 19th century, Pablo de Sarasate also composed a series of pieces for violin and piano (or orchestra) for his own concert use. Highly virtuosic salon pieces...

During a concert tour through California in early 1920, Prokofiev composed five songs with piano accompaniment and textless voice parts, which appeared in print as Five Songs without Words op. 35 and...

Brahms early on engaged with the violin sonata genre. As early as 1853 he wrote a sonata in a minor, which - like so many other youthful works of this self-critical composer - no longer survives. Thus...

Beethoven's Spring Sonata is one of his happiest creations. Violinists and pianists alike love its truly spring-like grace, inwardness, spirit and power. Early reviewers underscored the fact that the...

An authoritative Urtext edition of seven of Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo, written by Handel. Some of the finest baroque Violin Sonatas once more demonstrating Handel's exquisite brilliance....

Ludwig van Beethoven's two Romances for violin and orchestra in G major op. 40 and F major op. 50 are rewarding solo pieces that demand virtuoso technique and artistic sensitivity. Their simple struct...

For decades Henle's edition of this masterpiece from the violinrepertoire has been de rigueur for all serious violinists. Now we are presenting it with a revised text reflecting the latest research fi...

Debussy had intended to write a cycle comprising six sonatas. However, as he was seriously ill, he was forced to conclude it with the third one. Whereas the Sonata for Cello and Piano and the one for...

Dvorák's famous Symphony from the New World abounds in melodic turns and phrases that call up the atmosphere of 'Indian melodies' and spirituals. Among them are pentatonic (five-tone) tunes, and synco...

Antonín Dvorák's chamber music output comprises over forty works. That he became known so quickly beyond the borders of Bohemia was due not least to the many discerning music aficionados who enjoyed p...

Following Paganini's death, numerous musicians strove to assume his position as the 'devil's violinist', but none of them were able to do so as convincingly as the Spaniard Pablo de Sarasate. His uniq...

The solo parts of this wonderful Double Concerto for two violins and orchestra survive in a faultless fair copy by Bach that was made around 1730. The slow movement is regarded as a melodic high point...

Eduard Hanslick, a much feared critic in his time, was not very complimentary following its première: the violin was no longer being played but rather 'pulled about, torn asunder, beaten black and blu...

'I would gladly have done some more fiddling, but I was accompanied so badly that it gave me the colic.' Thus Mozart, writing to his father on 16 October 1777. He would probably have taken great pleas...

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his ten violin sonatas during a period of just fifteen years, between 1797 and 1812. Using our carefully revised two-volume edition of the complete sonatas, the performer ca...

Grieg's Third Violin Sonata is one of his major creations and stands alongside the sonatas of Johannes Brahms and César Franck at the pinnacle of late nineteenth century chamber music. One small measu...