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This work, composed in 1878/79, alternates between chamber music intimacy and symphonic opulence, and marks the beginning of a series of significant late works by César Franck. Its composition was par...

Very few really important works have been written for piano quintet - alongside the famous works by Schubert, Schumann und Brahms, the quintet that Antonín Dvorák composed in 1887 certainly numbers am...

When Smetana composed his Piano trio in the autumn of 1855, it was an act of catharsis to recover from the death of his four-year-old daughter Friederike. This highly emotional work was also his first...

Mendelssohn is considered a self-critical composer, who repeatedly reworked a number of his pieces until he deemed them worthy to be published. The path to his first Piano Trio was particularly rocky:...

After the great success of his first Piano Trio in d minor op. 49, some five years passed before Mendelssohn set to work on a new composition for this formation. But then the c-minor Trio came into be...

Brahms's First String Sextet became very popular after its publication in 1861, yet his publisher Simrock still hesitated when the composer offered him a second such work in 1865, 'in the same cheerfu...

Each of these four-movement works is a real jewel. Mozart worked hard on these six string quartets, and dedicated them to none other than the 'inventor' of the genre himself: Joseph Haydn. They were f...

As with its companion work op. 88 from 1882, Brahms's second string quintet was supposed to be completed in the relaxed atmosphere of a summer in Bad Ischl, but eight years later. The work's first tec...

The title of Ravel's Miroirs (1904/05) can be interpreted as 'reflections' of the human world of experiences. Among the nature pictures in this cycle, 'Une barque sur l'océan' is particularly popular,...

Two copies needed for performance This was the last concerto that Saint-Saëns wrote for his own instrument, the piano. Its subtitle has a dual meaning. Firstly, it was composed quickly in Luxor and Ca...

Rachmaninov's well-known piano cycle was composed in 1931, at a time when his great works for solo piano and the piano concertos had already brought him great fame. However, this is by no means an 'ol...

Revised edition replaces HN723. Fingering: Murray Perahia 'The farewell / Vienna, May 4, 1809 / on the departure of his Imperial Highness the revered Archduke Rudolph' - Beethoven added this inscripti...

Johannes Brahms's piano sonatas were among the 20-year-old composer's first publications. They were written in 1852-53, with the slow movement of this C major Sonata, which uses the song 'Verstohlen g...

Johannes Brahms's Piano Sonatas opp. 1, 2 and 5 were among the first works that the 20-year-old composer published. They were composed in 1852/53, although the Sonata in f-sharp minor was apparently t...

The Fifteen Variations (with Fugue) op. 35 composed in 1802 are known primarily by their sobriquet 'Eroica Variations' because the theme is also used in the finale of the Third Symphony. Together with...

The 'Polonaise-Fantaisie' is among Chopin's last great piano works, and is a testament to his mastery and maturity. The out-of-the-ordinary title betrays the fact that Chopin was uncertain about which...

In the years 2001-2014, G. Henle Publishers issued Urtext editions of the ten piano sonatas by Alexander Skriabin. The Skriabin specialist Valentina Rubcova from Moscow, the editor of these ten editio...

Liszt's piano rhapsodies stand in the tradition of his transcriptions of operatic or song melodies, yet employ folk dances and songs as their source material. Completed in 1864, Rhapsodie espagnole is...

Like the 'Eroica Variations' op. 35, the Variations op. 34, were composed in 1802 on an original theme. The 'new fashion' Beethoven declared for both works to his publisher becomes apparent in opus 34...

Aside from the violin Chaconne (HN557) and the ten Chorale Preludes for organ (HN1293), the Prelude and Fugue in D major ranks among the best-known piano transcriptions Busoni fashioned from J. S. Bac...

The piano does not lack for virtuoso showpieces. But this Etude in d-sharp minor from Scriabin's op. 8 definitely ranks among the highest in terms of popularity. A Horovitz concert without this explos...

Just like the third, the Fourth Hungarian Rhapsody, also issued in 1853, is based on a piano piece previously published as a Hungarian National Melody. In the course of his editing, Liszt intensified...

An Urtext edition of Robert Schumann's Exercices - Studies On A Theme By Beethoven, as edited by Robert Munster.

Foreword: Ernst Herttrich Facsimile of the manuscript, hardcover Pages: 28 (XXII, 6), size 30,5 x 25,0 cm

I am endlessly looking forward to the second sonata', thus Clara wrote to Robert in 1838, 'Your whole being is so clearly expressed in it.' Nonetheless in the same letter she encouraged him to revise...