Bärenreiter: Beethoven Piano Sonatas - Urtext editions for study and performance

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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...

In May of 1802, the 'Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung' praised the violin sonatas op. 23 and 24 as being '... among the best Beethoven has written, which is to say that they are among the best being wr...

“Beethoven effectively invented the genre of the cello sonata proper, in which cello and piano have equally important roles,” writes Barry Cooper in his introduction to the Bärenreiter edition of all...

An autograph fragment of the Violin Sonata op. 47 is titled, in Beethoven's hand, 'Sonata mulattica composta per il mulatto Brischdauer, gran pazzo e compositore mulattico' - meaning 'Mulatto Sonata c...

Beethovens 'Appassionata' in neuer Sicht Mit der f-Moll-Sonate op. 57 (1804/05) setzt Bärenreiter die Urtext-Edition von Beethovens Klaviersonaten mit einem Schlüsselwerk des klassischen Sonatenrepert...

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Owing to severe illness, Beethoven had to wait for over a year after completing op. 109 before beginning work on the second piece in his triptych of late sonatas: the Piano Sonata in A-flat major op....

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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....

Beethoven is regarded as the true inventor of the cello sonata as an independent genre in which cello and piano act as equal partners, writes Barry Cooper in his introduction to the Bärenreiter editio...

In May of 1802, the 'Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung' praised the violin sonatas op. 23 and 24 as being '... among the best Beethoven has written, which is to say that they are among the best being wr...

An autograph fragment of the Violin Sonata op. 47 is headed in Beethoven's handwriting: "Sonata mulattica composta per il mulatto Brischdauer, gran pazzo e compositore mulattico" - in German: mulattis...

The Sonata in F minor op. 57 (1804/05) was not given the nickname "Appassionata" until 1838, long after Beethoven's death. Jonathan Del Mar now offers an Urtext edition whose principles are revealed i...

Beethoven's final three piano sonatas have always been a source of great fascination. Composed in 1820, the Sonata op. 109 opened the door to the future with its extreme expressivity, its abandonment...

Beethoven's last three piano sonatas have always exerted a great fascination. With the Sonata op. 109, composed in 1820, Beethoven opens the door to the future - through the highest expressivity, the...

Beethoven's Sonata in F major op. 54 was written in 1804, just after the highly virtuosic 'Waldstein' Sonata and before the 'Appassionata' Sonata, and has unjustly stood in the shadow of its predecess...

The Sonata in F major op. 54, written in 1804 immediately after the highly virtuoso "Waldstein" Sonata, is still unjustly overshadowed by its predecessor and the subsequent "Appassionata" in F minor o...

It is hard to imagine that this very lyrical and moderately difficult piano sonata in the unusual key of F sharp major was preceded by the highly dramatic Sonata in f op. 57 ("Appassionata", BA 10852)...

It was not until 1814, five years after the Sonata op. 81 'Les Adieux', that Beethoven, then at the height of his popularity during the Congress of Vienna, returned to the piano sonata. The highly lyr...

It was not until 1814, five years after the Sonata op. 81a ("Les Adieux"), that Beethoven composed a new work in this genre at the height of his popularity during the Congress of Vienna. The extremely...

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...

The earliest sketches for Beethoven's Grande Sonate op. 7 date from 1796 and the first edition was issued by the publisher Artaria, Vienna in October 1797. It is dedicated to Beethoven's pupil Anna Lu...