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In his compositions, Richard Strauss demonstrates his deep understanding of the character of the Romantic horn. He achieved his greatest success in this respect with his first horn concerto, which - a...

Orchestral material according to the new Brahms Complete Edition by G. Henle Verlag. All conducting scores and orchestral parts are available exclusively from Breitkopf & Härtel.

Johannes Brahms did not want to compete with Beethoven in the field of symphonic music for a long time. With the six-movement Serenade in D major, the young composer consciously designed a work in a g...

During his time as conductor of the Detmold court orchestra, the young Brahms was inspired by the local wind ensemble to compose two serenades. Serenade No. 2, scored for five pairs of winds, violas,...

Brahms' "Clavier-Symhonie" in the original text of the complete edition Sometimes Brahms operated understatement, when he came to speak of his 2nd piano concerto, called it a "small" concerto - but wa...

The present Concertino in E-flat major, Op. 5, was composed especially for the Leipzig trombone virtuoso Carl Traugott Queisser (1800-1846), to whom the work is also dedicated. The Concertino was firs...

The difficult balancing act between the requirements of practical usefulness and philological meticulousness has been accomplished at a level that sets the bar for comparable efforts frighteningly hig...

The importance of the genre "overture" for Robert Schumann is shown by the creation chronology of his only opera. The composer notes "overture thoughts" as the first keyword in the household book and...

When and where was Mozart's flute concerto written and for whom? 1777 or 1778, Salzburg or Mannheim? How much did Ferdinand Dejean actually pay, only 96 or the promised 200 florins?

Urtext despite carelessly notated autograph Mozart's late Symphony in E-flat major was composed in 1788, presumably for academy concerts that did not materialize. The new edition is based on the only...

[Vl,Orch] - (Christian R. Riedel)

Urtext of the 'Revolution Overture' The overture to 'Hermann and Dorothea' is Schumann's only compositional result to Goethe's verse epic. Originally he planned a whole opera, then a Singspiel, finall...

Jean-François Monnard's Urtext edition is the first edition of La Valse that compares all relevant sources. The first printing of the score, published in 1921, served as a model.

The score and orchestral parts are available for purchase for the first time in a new edition of La Mer.

A repertoire work in the Urtext for practice edited by Christoph Hellmundt.

Urtext-Neuland: Die Ouvertüre Leonore Nr. 3 To this day, the two central Fidelio overtures are performed from musical texts that date back to the inaccurate and erroneous first printings of the parts....

... without a warm feeling of love' 'Tchaikovsky urtext' is no longer a rarity in the Breitkopf orchestral catalog. Polina Vajdman edits an extremely popular repertoire work, which the composer himsel...

A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...

The cycle Seven Early Songs, based on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets, was compiled in 1928, more than twenty years after the individual songs were composed. Alban Berg selected seven of...

On their way to Salzburg, Constanze and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a stopover in Linz in the fall of 1783. The stay was productive: the 13-voice, four-movement Linz Symphony was created. To compose...

Dream Waltz 'À l'exemple de Schubert' - Ravel re-invents the waltz, inspired by Liszt, Chopin, Schumann and Chabrier, transforming the rhapsodic gyrations of the dance and sending it whirling into the...

Ravel's multi-layered Hommage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his Hommage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel addresses not so much Couperin himself as the French music of the 18th century. On the other hand,...

First the general news on the consistently closed group of works: with the new edition of the G minor Symphony, the three late Mozart works K. 543, 550 and 551 are now available in the Breitkopf Urtex...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...