Sheet Music for Instruments

To this day, Franz Liszt is considered one of the greatest pianists of all time; an uber-virtuoso who strings together extreme technical difficulties even in his own piano compositions. But don't be a...

> Includes, among others, the popular piece 'Für Elise' > Works for the ideal introduction to Beethoven's piano music > Ascending difficulty from easy to moderate Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas represen...

> Ascending difficulty from easy to medium > Also easy pieces of cheerful-melancholic depth > For returning pianists and their teachers > Editor and fingering: Sylvia Hewig-Tröscher Of the twelve comp...

> Unmistakably Chopinian tone even in the not too difficult, short pieces > Gradual introduction to the tonal language of the Polish-French master > Editor and fingering: Sylvia Hewig-Troescher Alth...

> Includes, among others, catchy tunes from 'Peer Gynt' and 'From Holberg's Time' > Urtext in excellent arrangement > Editor and fingering: Sylvia Hewig-Tröscher Evard Grieg was a master of the romant...

Time and again, Chopin succeeded in giving different piano music genres their own individual characters, whether etudes, preludes, waltzes, scherzi or nocturnes. The Irishman John Field had already co...

The polonaise made its first appearances in stylized dance music in the late 16th century. With his own polonaises, Chopin also declared his allegiance to his native Poland. In a way, the genre had fa...

Throughout his life Mozart composed individual pieces for the keyboard. This wealth of material offers us an exceptional insight into his musical development. For the first time ever, we are now offer...

Time and again, Chopin succeeded in giving different piano music genres their own individual characters, whether etudes, preludes, waltzes, scherzi or nocturnes. The Irishman John Field had already co...

Hardly unexpectedly for a genre created by Franz Schubert, Chopin's four Impromptus have a strongly improvisatory character, while still overflowing with fleet-footed lightness, as well as with dignit...

Hardly unexpectedly for a genre created by Franz Schubert, Chopin's four Impromptus have a strongly improvisatory character, while still overflowing with fleet-footed lightness, as well as with dignit...

Kapellmeister Kreisler, the ingenious and eccentric conductor created by E. T. A. Hoffmann, served as the inspiration for this composition of 1838. Schumann set out to recreate this fictitious charact...

Preface: Valentina Rubcova Scriabin's 7th Piano Sonata is amongst the late sonatas nos. 6-10, conceived as preliminary studies for a Gesamtkunstwerk of enormous proportions, the 'Mysterium'. The mysti...

C minor is traditionally the key of drama, passion, pathos, and pain, which also applies here in Mozart's famous C minor sonata K. 457. He wrote it in October 1784, though what might have triggered th...

In 1983 G. Henle Publishers launched its series of piano works by Debussy with these Arabesques, the most important of his early piano pieces. The edition is still amongst our most successful ones. Th...

In 1983 G. Henle Publishers launched its series of piano works by Debussy with these Arabesques, the most important of his early piano pieces. The edition is still amongst our most successful ones. Th...

In the 19th century, Nicolò Paganini was the embodiment of the virtuoso. Many composers used his musical themes for their own creative work. Johannes Brahms likewise did not hesitate to use a work by...

An ancient melody, probably from the 16th century, is the basis for Grieg's op. 24. This 'Ballade in Variation Form' was written in winter and spring 1875/76, in the months following his parents' deat...

Initially only conceived as a birthday album for his daughter Marie, Schumann's 'Pieces for Piano' op. 68 received tremendous acclaim throughout the world. Is there a piano student who has not played...

Beethoven wrote his three Sonatas opp. 10 in 1795/98 and dedicated them to Countess von Browne-Camus. Compared with the Sonatas opp. 2, the composer takes another notable step forward with them, both...

A rondo for piano solo,' noted Mozart in his personal work catalogue on 11 March 1787 - and there is little more to add about the origins of this piece, which Mozart sent off to print shortly thereaft...

Who does not know Johann Sebastian Bach's Chaconne, the final piece from his Partita in D minor for solo violin? Time and again, composers have been inspired to open up this exceptional work for other...

The epochal piano virtuoso Liszt made numerous transcriptions for his instrument of works by other composers - Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, a key nineteenth century work, naturally numbered amongst th...

Aside from the five great piano concertos, it is easy to forget that Beethoven had already turned to this genre in Bonn during his youth. The Concerto in Eb, written in 1784, still shows stylistic sig...

With the exception of the version of the 'Grand Fugue' for piano four hands (HN 954), this volume contains all of Beethoven's works for this scoring, to which he only rarely turned. It comprises the S...