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Edward Elgar spent the summer of 1918 in the countryside. In August he received reports of the approaching end of the First World War, and this good news so inspired him that he was able to finish an...

Dvořák composed this concerto at his publisher's suggestion. He drafted it relatively swiftly in summer 1879, but completing it was a more drawn-out process that lasted until 1882. He had the famous v...

In the era before Paganini, a brilliant solo cadenza in a sonata or concerto movement for violin was called a 'capriccio'. Practice pieces for string instruments were also given this generic name. The...

Every classically trained saxophonist knows and plays this work: with his Saxophone Quartet, composed in 1932, Alexander Glazunov established virtually out of nowhere a new genre and helped the then u...

Facsimile of the manuscript. Hardcover

We have begun with numbers 2 and 6: in the coming years we will be producing editions of all of Franz Liszt's 'Hungarian Rhapsodies', brilliant pianistic excesses and a favourite with all virtuosos. H...

Among the priceless treasures of the music department at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is its collection of Bach autographs. The manuscript of the Flute Sonata in b minor BWV 1030 is a particularly b...

This masterpiece's famous nickname 'Appassionata' (the passionate) does not stem from Beethoven, but was assigned to the sonata by posterity. However, it could hardly be more appropriate! Beethoven's...

This middle piece of the early set of three early sonatas op. 2 dedicated to Joseph Haydn was probably composed in the winter of 1794/95. To this day it stands - unjustly -- in the shadow of its more...

As with the three sonatas that form opus 2, the trio of works forming opus 10, written between 1796 and 1798, offers a collection of three sonatas with entirely different characters. With its distinct...

Composed in 1800, this work was published two years later under the title 'Grande Sonate' in order to demonstrate the resumption of an earlier, four-movement sonata model. Beethoven proudly announced...

In the second volume, Italie, published in 1858, of the three-part Années de pèlerinage the great names of Italian art and poetry occupy centre stage. Among these was also Petrarch and his collection...

Isaac Albéniz understood his "Iberia Suite" as "Spanish music with a universal touch". He succeeded perfectly with the colourful piano cycle, even though at the end, plagued by serious illness, he had...

Beethoven's E-flat major Piano Sonata, the companion piece to the celebrated 'Moonlight' sonata (op. 27 no. 2), is one that pianists especially admire and enjoy playing. This volume is an inexpensive...

Obermann', the epistolary novel by the French Romantic Senancour, inspired Liszt to write the first volume in his collection 'Années de Pèlerinage' (HN 173). A wanderer is searching for his ideals in...

As if looking back on his youth toward the end of his life, Richard Strauss wrote a second concerto for horn and orchestra, again in Eb major, around sixty years after his first concerto for horn. Thi...

Scriabin's ideal of music as part of a synthesis of the arts, raising people to a higher level of consciousness, is particularly apparent in his late work 'Vers la flamme' op. 72. The poème opens with...

In 1891, the year before his final exam at the music conservatory, Alexander Scriabin injured his right hand due to his ambitious practising. This seriously jeopardized his career as a pianist and the...

Scriabin's two movement Piano Sonata no. 2 in g sharp minor was composed over a relatively lengthy period of time. He first began work on it in 1892, but in the summer of 1896, after Scriabin had perf...

'A great poem for the piano' was how Scriabin described his fifth piano sonata. It was indeed composed at the same time as his great poem for orchestra 'Le Poème de l'extase', and both works are based...

Kapellmeister Kreisler, the ingenious and eccentric conductor created by E. T. A. Hoffmann, served as the inspiration for this composition of 1838. Schumann set out to recreate this fictitious charact...

Who does not know Johann Sebastian Bach's Chaconne, the final piece from his Partita in D minor for solo violin? Time and again, composers have been inspired to open up this exceptional work for other...

In 1841, at the height of his mastery, Mendelssohn wrote three variation cycles for piano in quick succession. The first of them, the 'Variations sérieuses' op 54, should probably be regarded as his m...