Advanced Classical Music Sheet Music

César Franck's last piano work was published in 1888, two years before his death. The fact that this cycle did not enjoy the success of the Prélude, Choral et Fugue is hard to believe, given the expre...

Everywhere only confused combinations of figures, dissonances, passages - in short, for us torture' - Schumann certainly did not deserve this contemporary slating. He only published the opening moveme...

Franck wrote almost all of his important works in his later years. This almost 20-minute-long cycle from 1884 is his best-known piano composition and is often played on concert platforms to this day....

Since their publication as Urtext editions, the first two volumes of 'Iberia' issued by G. Henle Publishers have become an established part of the pianists' world. Now comes the third book, in which A...

With the fourth and last book, our blue Urtext editions of the 'Iberia' cycle are now complete. Albéniz had greatly struggled to complete the work because he was very ill. Yet he was able to hand over...

Chopin's furioso c-minor etude has become famous as the 'Revolutionary Etude'. According to unsubstantiated legend, the composer wrote it in September 1831 when news of the crushing of the Polish upri...

The single editions of Schubert's three a-minor sonatas and the 'little' A-major sonata are now joined by the c-minor sonata, thereby completing Henle's series of the late piano sonatas in affordable...

At last Fauré's brilliant masterpiece is available in a modern urtext edition! This vibrant set of variations was premièred in London's St James Hall on 10 December 1896 and appeared in print the foll...

When Liszt took over the direction of the Court Opera in Weimar, he spent a great deal of time exploring Goethe's works. He was particularly attracted to the subject-matter of Faust. He used Nikolaus...

The Piano Sonata op. 101 marks the transition to Beethoven's late works. The composer's increasing deafness was already manifesting itself in such a marked way that he no longer dared to appear public...

We have begun with numbers 2 and 6: in the coming years we will be producing editions of all of Franz Liszt's 'Hungarian Rhapsodies', brilliant pianistic excesses and a favourite with all virtuosos. H...

Liszt's ninth Rhapsody is the 'Carnival at Pest' - one of the few Hungarian Rhapsodies to which he gave a name. Once again Liszt turns to Hungarian folk melodies and fuses them with improvisatory elem...

La Vega' depicts the view over the plain of Granada, as seen from the Arabian palace, the Alhambra. The attractive landscape inspired Albéniz to compose this delicate, impressionistic work with an alm...

When Chopin left with George Sand for his oft-cited winter sojourn on Mallorca in autumn 1838, he also took his second ballade with him, which was not yet finished. Chopin's health and other unfavoura...

The early Piano Sonata op. 4 offers interesting insights into the young Chopin's compositional development. In all probability written during his student years at the Warsaw Conservatory and highly pr...

Along with the beautiful facsimile edition of the autograph score to be published on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's birth (HN 3221), we are also publishing a completely rev...

Gershwin's Concerto in F was a work commissioned by Walter Damrosch in the spring of 1925. Gershwin began the two-piano score in July, titling the original drafts the New York Concerto. It was perform...

A pianist and composer, the Spanish musician Albéniz was a leading figure in the creation of a national style of composition in Spain. Although he wrote operas, including a King Arthur to English word...

Soaring Above The Peaks is a work inspired by the mountains and the flight of birds. It was composed especially for Arno Bard, a young musician with a great passion for nature, and presented to him by...

Soaring Above The Peaks is a work inspired by the mountains and the flight of birds. It was composed especially for Arno Bard, a young musician with a great passion for nature, and presented to him by...

The present work is a four-movement trio, with romantic melodies reminiscent of film music, interwoven with fast and demanding passages that require a high level of virtuosity on the instrument. Man...

Poppers 'Requiem' ist das vielleicht am meisten bewegende Werk. Es ist charakterisiert durch elegische und melancholische Stimmungen. Höchst ausdrucksvoll ist das musikalische Material so auf die Stre...

Rhapsody in Red is dedicated to Emmanuelle Roh, a young percussionist with a passion for mallet instruments - vibraphone, xylophone and glockenspiel - as well as for the world of wine. The work reflec...

Rhapsody in Red is dedicated to Emmanuelle Roh, a young percussionist with a passion for mallet instruments - vibraphone, xylophone and glockenspiel - as well as for the world of wine. The work reflec...

Soaring Above The Peaks is a work inspired by the mountains and the flight of birds. It was composed especially for Arno Bard, a young musician with a great passion for nature, and presented to him by...