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The Six Easy Pieces arranged by German composer, conductor, and organist Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748--1798) are inspired by the original vocal/orchestral score of The Magic Flute. These pieces are i...

Hans Bischoff (1852-1889) was a German concert pianist and well-regarded music editor, who continues to be respected for his thorough research, attention to detail, and careful consideration of source...

This sonata for two pianos, four hands was written in 1781 for performance by Mozart and Josephine von Aurnhammer, one of his finest students. The first and third movements are fast and brilliant, con...

Hans Bischoff (1852--1889) was a German concert pianist and well-regarded music editor, who continues to be respected for his thorough research, attention to detail, and careful consideration of sourc...

Hans Bischoff (1852-1889) was a German concert pianist and well-regarded music editor, who continues to be respected for his thorough research, attention to detail, and careful consideration of source...

Hans Bischoff (1852--1889) was a German concert pianist and well-regarded music editor, who continues to be respected for his thorough research, attention to detail, and careful consideration of sourc...

These two noble and heroic rhapsodies are among Johannes Brahms's best-known works. This Alfred edition is based on the composer's personal copies of the first edition. Dr. Hinson offers valuable perf...

Written in 1911, this piece was Bartok's first large-scale independent piano composition, and the first time he used the piano this percussively. There are many shifts in moods and dynamics from ppp t...

Debussy verbindet seine '12 Préludes' des ersten Heftes nicht durch ein tonartliches Schema, sondern durch eine Kette assoziativer Mottos oder Titel, die er den Stücken jeweils am Ende folgen lässt un...

Three years after the publication of the first volume, the second volume of Debussy's Préludes was published in 1913. Here the music reflects the impressions of Stravinsky's music on the composer. In...

It was unmistakably Liszt's piano piece 'Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este' that inspired Ravel to compose one of his most famous works in 1901: 'Jeux d'eau'. Laid out in sonata form, its sound is gove...

In Faurés Gesamtwerk ist die Klaviermusik von zentraler Bedeutung. Seine 1879 entstandene 'Ballade' widmete er seinem Lehrer Camille Saint-Saëns. Sowohl durch ihren lyrischen Charakter als auch in for...

Fauré's '13 Barcarolles', composed over a period of almost four decades (1882-1921), are highly representative of his piano oeuvre and are considered his most characteristic works. They reflect his mo...

Faurés vier 'Valses-Caprices'(1882/83-1894) (BA10843) spiegeln verschiedene Formen seiner Auseinandersetzung mit dem Walzer in Verbindung mit der freien Form der Caprice. Anregungen für seine 'Valses-...

With the two sonatas of his Opus 27, Beethoven broke new formal ground at the beginning of the 19th century. Each named Sonata quasi una Fantasia, the second in particular became immortal under its la...

> Scholarly-critical Urtext edition based on the latest research findings > Enlightening Introduction and notes on period performance practice (Eng/Ger) > Well-presented engraving > Practical page tur...

> Urtext performance edition at the cutting edge of scholarship > Optimal page turns > Informative Introduction > Valuable suggestions on period performance practice (Eng/Ger) > Detailed Critical Comm...

> Scholarly-critical Urtext edition at the cutting edge of scholarship > New readings > Based on an evaluation of all available sources > Reader-friendly layout and practical page turns > Informative...

Beethoven's Sonata in F major op. 54 was written in 1804, just after the highly virtuosic 'Waldstein' Sonata and before the 'Appassionata' Sonata, and has unjustly stood in the shadow of its predecess...

It was not until 1814, five years after the Sonata op. 81 'Les Adieux', that Beethoven, then at the height of his popularity during the Congress of Vienna, returned to the piano sonata. The highly lyr...

Mit Fingersatz und Hinweisen zur Aufführungspraxis von Paul Badura-Skoda

Chopin's "Berceuse" is one of his most frequently performed works and was regarded by subsequent composers as the prototype of the instrumental lullaby. This piece that Chopin initially named "Variant...

Following the critically acclaimed publication of the 35 Piano Sonatas in separate editions, Bärenreiter now presents Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas in three volumes. This edition, which is unpara...

Fauré composed his 5 impromptus in two distinct periods of his career, in 1881-83 and 1906-09. Inspired by Chopin's example, the brilliant early impromptus (opp. 25, 31 and 34) resemble lyrical études...

More than 20 years after op. 52, Saint-Saëns turned once more to the genre of the concert etude. In 1892, he wrote an etude that was initially intended for publication in a magazine and later was to b...