Advanced Sheet Music for Piano

The cycle with three movements, composed at the end of 1907 and published at the beginning of the next year, contains a singular innovation: Debussy notated the highly differentiated piano part that g...

Carl Maria von Weber's four piano sonatas, all composed in the decade 1812-1822, are considered the pillars of his not very extensive piano oeuvre. In these sonatas, Weber, who was one of the most ren...

The epithet "English Suites" - as with the "French Suites" - did not originate with Bach himself. In contrast to the six intimate French Suites, Bach's English Suites adopt a grander tone, each one op...

Robert Schumann was fascinated by the violin virtuoso Nicolò Paganini, as were many composers of the time. When he was planning a piano tutor in 1832/33 that was to include his own works as well as th...

Thanks to its variety and playfulness, the so-called 'Gastein Sonata' is one of Schubert's most effective essays in the genre, posing considerable demands on technique while always lying well under th...

For half a century Henle's edition of the Beethoven sonatas - the 'New Testament' of the piano repertoire - has been universally recognized as the standard starting-point for any serious study of thes...

Beethoven's three Piano sonatas op. 2 were the first works in this genre to which he gave an opus number, thus signalling to the music world the special importance that he assigned to them. He wrote t...

Beethoven's three Piano sonatas op. 2 were the first works in this genre to which he gave an opus number, thus signalling to the music world the special importance that he assigned to them. He wrote t...

The Rákóczi march is often referred to as the 'Hungarian Marseillaise'. The beginnings of this march song go back to around 1730. In the text, the Hungarians summon Franz II Rákóczi to free his people...

In celebration of Beethoven Year 2020, G. Henle Publishers presents the first of three volumes with the complete piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven in a new Urtext edition, prepared by Maestro Murr...

One of the most eminent pianists of his time - who even engaged in a contest with Mozart and did not lose - Muzio Clementi created fundamental pedagogical works for piano and altogether 63 sonatas for...

In 1836 Chopin introduced the term 'ballad' into piano music with the publication of his Ballad op. 23, although up to then it had only been used in literature and in vocal music. Indeed, all four of...

Chopin left behind only a few works in the main form of the classical era, the sonata - of these, the Piano Sonata op. 58 certainly numbers among his most important. Formally, it is more conventionall...

Chopin's early works include a wealth of new stimuli for anyone wishing to take a closer look at the creative works of the Polish genius. Up to now the four Rondos have been missing from our catalogue...

Chopin's early works include a wealth of new stimuli for anyone wishing to take a closer look at the creative works of the Polish genius. Up to now the four Rondos have been missing from our catalogue...

Frédéric Chopin's 4 Scherzi are high points in the Romantic piano repertoire. Chopin here takes a traditional genre and fills it with radically new content. They are wild, demonic in tone, and there i...

Chopin was probably the first to apply the word 'ballade' to music', Robert Schumann once wrote. He and his contemporaries were only familiar with the term 'ballad' as a literary generic concept. Poem...

Volkmar Andreae, longtime chief conductor of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, composed the Piano Concerto in D during his studies in Cologne where he premiered it himself in 1898. He dedicated the conce...

Mit diesen 53 Studien, die in souveräner Werkkenntnis auf Chopins op. 10 und op. 25 aufgebaut sind, verfolgte Godowsky einen dreifachen Zweck: die mechanischen, technischen und musikalischen Möglichke...

Mit diesen 53 Studien, die in souveräner Werkkenntnis auf Chopins op. 10 und op. 25 aufgebaut sind, verfolgte Godowsky einen dreifachen Zweck: die mechanischen, technischen und musikalischen Möglichke...

53 Studien über die Etüden von Chopin, davon 22 für die linke Hand 5 Bände mit je deutsch-englisch-französischer Einführung Band 1-5 komplett Godowsky, einer der größten Pianisten des goldenen Zeitalt...