Advanced Sheet Music for Piano

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...

Saint-Saëns' etudes for the left hand were written in 1912 at the request of his pianist friend Caroline Montigny-Rémaury de Serres, who had suffered an injury to her right hand. These etudes which we...

… A lot of time will pass before someone fundamentally improves this musical text and the accompanying critical apparatus! (Leslie Howard). With his edition of Beethoven's piano sonatas, Jonathan Del...

Discover the art of stylish interpretation with this outstanding sheet music edition from the renowned Bärenreiter Verlag: "Cadenzas, Lead-ins and Ornaments for the Piano Concertos" by Paul Badura-Sko...

Immerse yourself in one of the most sublime masterpieces of Baroque keyboard music: Johann Sebastian Bach's "Goldberg Variations" BWV 988, originally published as the fourth part of the legendary "Cla...

Mozarts Werke für Klavier zu vier Händen gehören zu den wichtigsten Beiträgen dieses Repertoires. In der vorliegenden, auf der 'Neuen Mozart-Ausgabe' basierenden kritisch-praktischen Urtext-Edition gi...

No genre reflects Skrjabin's artistic evolution more vividly than his piano sonatas. Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 and 8 which are presented in this edition were written between 1911 and 1913, at times contempora...

Auslöser für den 1874 komponierten Klavierzyklus 'Bilder einer Ausstellung' war die im gleichen Jahr veranstaltete Gedächtnisausstellung für den 1873 verstorbenen und mit dem Komponisten befreundeten...

The trigger for the piano cycle "Pictures at an Exhibition", composed in 1874, was the memorial exhibition organized in the same year for the painter and architect Viktor Hartmann, who died in 1873 an...

Nach Schuberts bereits im großzügigen Neustich vorliegenden 'Moments Musicaux' (BA9647) und 'Impromptus' (BA9648) erscheinen nun auch seine späten Klavierstücke in einer modernen Ansprüchen genügenden...

Meilenstein der Klavierliteratur Liszts 1854 erschienener Sonate in h-Moll kommt innerhalb der Gattung Klaviersonate überragende Bedeutung zu. Bärenreiter legt das Werk - nach wie vor pianistische Her...

Beethoven's 'Diabelli Variations', written between 1819 and 1823, mark the pinnacle of his oeuvre for variations and next to Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' form one of the most important contributions t...

The work, which the composer counts among her favourite pieces, was inspired by the life and work of Marguerite Duras. In her play of the same name, a Flemish woman goes to Saigon at the beginning of...

Between 1995 and 2003 the composer York Höller from Cologne created 14 highly demanding piano pieces which are not only tone pictures, but also compositional reflections on persons personally close to...

For her concerts marking the anniversary of '50 Years of diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel' the pianist Heidrun Holtmann asked several authors to write compositions. Being under the impr...

Was sein Titel verspricht, hält das metrisch frei notierte, vierminütige Stück mit post-impressionistischer Spieltechnik und Klanglichkeit. Die türkisch-österreichische Pianistin Seda Röder nahm es in...

In a quiet, entirely conventional barcarole à la Chopin or Tchaikovsky disturbing alarm bells ring, before getting finally brutalized (revealing the main theme of Reinhold Glière's ‘Hymn to a Great Ci...

Immerse yourself in a world of graceful melodies and poetic expression: "Walzer und zwei Serenaden" (Waltz and Two Serenades) for solo piano invites pianists to explore an enchanting repertoire. These...

What if the probably most popular symphony by Sergei Rachmaninoff were rewritten as a piece for piano and orchestra? This was the idea behind the 'adaptation' of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 into his...

Variations from the Golden Mountain was commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the partial support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffman, a Swiss grant making foundation. It was first perfo...

These four short pieces, though simple on the surface, all give glimpses in miniature of the technical ideas which characterise Birtwistle's larger works. Ostinato with Melody, dedicated to Boulez on...