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The so-called Moonlight Sonata is probably the best known of all of Beethoven's piano sonatas, and one should think that all that can be said about this work has already been said. But far from it! Ev...

The 'Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen vors Clavicimbal' was given its common title 'Goldberg Variations' by Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who in turn relied on reports from Bach's elder sons, because it...

These 51 exercises 'for the Pianoforte' were published in 1893 by Brahms. Ever since they have been regarded as key exercises, custom made for developing the smooth pianistic technique that is an esse...

The genesis of Chopin's Polonaise brillante Op. 22 leads back to his youth in Warsaw and the years of his first trips as a virtuoso. Designed as a concert piece with orchestra, it takes up a special p...

Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6 was composed in 1837. The eponymous Davidsbund, named after the patron saint of music, the biblical philistine and royal singer, is to be understood as a Romantic-l...

The musical text of Johannes Brahms' piano sonatas, presented in a new critical edition, adheres closely to the sources, in the case of op. 1 above all to the composer's hand copy with corrections. Va...

The sonata Op. 5 is the final volume in the new, centenary Wiener Urtext Edition of Johannes Brahms' three piano sonatas. It follows the same editorial standards as the editions of the two preceding s...

The sonata Op. 5 is the final volume in the new, centenary Wiener Urtext Edition of Johannes Brahms' three piano sonatas. It follows the same editorial standards as the editions of the two preceding s...

Johannes Brahms showed an interest in the music of previous epochs at an early age. In this context, he also came across the variation theme of George Frideric Handel which, in turn, inspired him to w...

The Paganini Variations occupy a special place in Brahms‘s piano oeuvre. They are, true to their main title, a work for study, but at the same time (in contrast to, for instance, the 51 exercise...

The 'Hungarian Dances' were published in three different, yet authentic versions during the composer's lifetime: (1) all 21 dances arranged for piano duet, (2) nos. 1-10 also for solo piano and (3) no...

The key to one of the most important collections of piano works by Liszt.Notes from numerous sourcesIn the new edition of 'Etudes d'execution transcendante'(1851) the music has been revised and correc...

Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit is one of the most important piano works of the 20th century and constitutes the height of the extension of the pianistic playing techniques and tonal possibilites w...

This collection contains ten pieces, including Bach's Prelude and Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Schubert's Moderato from Sonata D. 566 and Beethoven's Rondo from Grande Sonate Pathétique, op....

With his Variations sérieuses, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy contributed to the anthology Album-Beethoven which had been initiated by the Viennese publisher Pietro Mechetti and whose proceeds were to be...

Regarded as the highlight among Chopin's polonaises, the great Polonaise in A flat major Op. 53 has also become known as 'octave polonaise' because of the distinctive octave passages in the middle sec...

200 years ago, in the late autumn of 1817, Beethoven began the first sketches for the most monumental of his piano sonatas, the Hammerklavier Sonata op. 106. In the fall of 2017, Wiener Urtext Edition...

Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C major op. 53, known as the Waldstein Sonata, is one of the highlights of all piano music. The large-scale work was originally far more expansive with its extensive Andant...

Beethoven’s Sonata Les Adieux is the composer’s only piano sonata with a programmatic background. The reason for its creation was the so-called 5th coalition war, in which Napoleon’s army invaded Aust...

Beethoven himself called the composition Sonate facile oder Sonatine. Although comparatively easier to play than most of his piano sonatas, it shows all the "typical" stylistic elements, such as surpr...

The edition is supplemented with a facsimile of the autograph. As well as being a bibliophile's delight, the edition also offer the opportunity to study the composer's own manuscript in all its detail...

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 8)

The great composers of the Romantic period enriched the flute repertoire only sparingly. This makes Franz Schubert's Introduction and Variations on 'Trockne Blumen' from the song cycle 'Die schöne Mül...