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The Sonata op. 101 has an unusually long history of composition. Beethoven's earliest sketches date from 1815. The first edition of the "Difficult to Exegetate Sonata in A", as Beethoven called it, wa...

Due to serious illness, Beethoven was only able to begin composing the Sonata in A flat major op. 110, the second work in his late trio of sonatas, over a year after the first. The first sketches date...

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In October 1801, Beethoven offered the Vienna Art and Industry Comptoir a "large sonata for forte piano". His Sonata in D major, published the following year, has been inextricably linked with this ep...

In a letter to Breitkopf & Härtel, Beethoven described the little sonata op. 79 as a "Sonate facile" or "Sonatine". It is an indispensable part of piano lessons for advanced beginners. The creation of...

Published in 1784, Mozart's Sonata in A major 'for clavier solo', with its famous 'Alla Turca' finale, is one of the most popular works in the entire piano literature. After a section of the lost auto...

The Sonata in B minor op. 58 (1844) is Chopin's third and most important contribution to this genre. The editors have arrived at a revised reading of the work through a fundamental reassessment of the...

Chopin's "Berceuse" is one of his most frequently performed works and was regarded by subsequent composers as the prototype of the instrumental lullaby. This piece that Chopin initially named "Variant...

In 1845/46 Chopin composed his bel canto inspired 'Barcarolle' in F-sharp major op. 60, which became a model for subsequent generations of composers. In his evaluation of the divergent and partly even...

In 1845/46, Chopin composed his bel canto-inspired "Barcarolle" in F sharp major op. 60, which became a model for subsequent generations of composers. In his evaluation of the divergent and sometimes...

Fauré's "Pavane" for orchestra was composed in 1887, followed in the same year by a version for choir and orchestra. Three decades later, Sergei Djagilev would have the work danced by his Ballets russ...

A number of questions regarding Beethoven's most famous bagatelle, 'Für Elise', remain unanswered until today: What happened to the complete autograph and who was 'Elise'? The bagatelle was written be...

Alongside the Urtext edition of Beethoven's 35 piano sonatas which sets new standards for the 21st century, world-renowned Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar presents a Critical Commentary to this body...

Following the Urtext edition of all 35 of Beethoven's piano sonatas, which set new standards for the 21st century, Jonathan Del Mar, a world-renowned expert on Beethoven's music and its sources, prese...

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...

Following the edition of the critically acclaimed Urtext edition in individual volumes, Bärenreiter presents Beethoven's 35 piano sonatas as a three-volume complete edition. The editor of this edition...

Fauré composed his 5 Impromptus from 1881-1883 and 1906-1909 in two different creative phases. Inspired by Chopin, his brilliant early Impromptus op. 25, 31 and 34 resemble lyrical etudes that seem im...

With this early cycle (1863/64), Fauré follows in the footsteps of Mendelssohn's "Lieder ohne Worte" (Songs without Words) whilst at the same time enrolling into the French tradition of the "Romance s...

Saint-Saëns' "Six Études pour piano" op. 52, a work from his mature period, was published in 1877, around the same time as his opera "Samson et Dalila". The second of the etudes was originally written...

More than 20 years after op. 52, Saint-Saëns returned to the concert étude genre. In 1892, he wrote an etude initially intended for publication in a magazine, the later No. 1. However, on the advice o...

Saint-Saëns' Etudes for the left hand were commissioned in 1912 by his pianist friend Caroline Montigny-Rémaury de Serres, who had suffered an injury to her right hand. Saint-Saëns originally titled t...

Schubert's Fantasia in F minor is one of the most important compositions in the repertoire for piano four hands. Its four thematically related movements are played one after the other without interrup...