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Smetana's piano sketch Macbeth, also known as Macbeth and the Witches, after William Shakespeare's tragedy, originated in 1859 while the composer was living in Sweden. Some scholars believe that it wa...

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Mit Hinweisen zur Aufführungspraxis von Jonathan Del Mar und Misha Donat

At the end of 1821, Beethoven began work on op. 111, his last piano sonata, which has been regarded as the pinnacle since its publication and to which Thomas Mann dedicated a literary monument in Dr....

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...

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...

Der Pianist Christian Köhn, mit Brahms' Klavierwerk intensiv vertraut, gibt diese 1861 entstandenen Variationen über das achttaktige Thema aus Händels Suite Nr. 1 (Suite de pièces de Clavecin, 2. Band...

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Schubert’s tuneful and buoyant Sonata in G major was published in April 1827 as a 'Fantasy or Sonata”, to quote the heading of its first movement. His first reviewer noted that 'the beloved and talent...

Piano Sonatas 3

Mit Hinweisen zur Aufführungspraxis von Mario Aschauer

« Si les artistes rendent si rarement compte de leurs instants d'inspiration, la raison en est bien simple: c'est qu'à ces moments-là du processus créateur ils ne sont nullement présents par la consci...

This small virtuoso rondo with jazz elements from 2003 is now published for the first time in a sheet music edition.

Bach's death meant that the Art of Fugue was left unfinished. In his father's manuscript Carl Philipp Emanuel noted exactly where the last fugue of the Art of Fugue broke off: 'While working on this f...

The 'Goldberg' Variations are without a doubt the most important piano cycle of the 18th century. Only Beethoven's 'Diabelli' Variations from the 19th century can be compared to them as far their far-...

Finally, G. Henle Publishers is able to offer one of Rachmaninov's most important, most substantial piano works in a meticulous Urtext edition that does justice to the work and to the editorial diffic...

Johannes Brahms's piano sonatas opp. 1, 2 and 5 were among the first works that the then 20-year-old composer published. Much of the music of the f-minor Sonata is closely connected to Brahms's visit...

Beethoven allegedly told his publisher Artaria, in connection with this Sonata, that 'Here you have a sonata that will be a hard nut to crack'. Indeed, the enormous dimensions of the work, which was s...

With these three studies Bartók quite deliberately aimed to leave his mark on New Music in 1918. The first study is a kind of super-charged, motorically vehement Allegro barbaro, while the second, wit...

Schumann began work on the Toccata op. 7 when he was only 20 years old. At the time he was studying law, following his family's wishes. He did not, however, intend to have his first manuscript, entitl...

A secret engagement, a composer as prospective father-in-law and several rival publishing houses - it was against this backdrop that the work was composed. His youthful and passionate love for Ernesti...

We know that Brahms took an active interest in Baroque music throughout his life. It can thus hardly be by chance that he chose a theme from one of Handel's harpsichord suites for his 25 variations. T...

Franz Liszt not only wrote a series of opera paraphrases during his virtuoso years, but also composed some in his Weimar years from 1848 onwards. He did not, however, write them for himself but for th...

Following Schumann's fi rst, evidently unsuccessful attempt at composing a 'Sonata' - he only had the opening movement published under the title 'Allegro in b minor' - he tried once again in 1833. It...

In his last years, Skryabin realized a noble and great idea. Inspired by his study of theosophical writings, he dreamed of joining music, poetry, mime, architecture, light, colour and even aromas to c...