Breitkopf & Hartel Urtext

It was only shortly after the 5th Symphony that Beethoven completed the Pastoral Symphony. The two formed a complementary work pair, consigned together to a patron in June 1808, publicly premiered in...

Since 2001 the 'Ninth' has been included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. Beethoven was preoccupied with his unique work for many years, since at least 1815, and still shortly before his deat...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Missa solemnis between 1819 and 1822. The present edition is based on the working copy of the score as its main source, which Beethoven probably commissioned immediat...

One of the most frequently performed solo concertos, whose composition coincides with the work on the opera Le nozze di Figaro.The sources for K. 488 are quite clear. The score autograph has survived,...

Like Joseph Haydn's Concerto in E-flat Major Hob VIIe:1 (1796), Hummel's Trumpet Concerto in E Major was composed in 1803 for the Viennese soloist Anton Weidinger, who had at his disposal on his keyed...

The unbroken popularity of Vanhal's sole double bass concerto in competitions and for practice and concert purposes is reason enough for us to publish the work in Breitkopf Urtext. The edition profits...

Many well-known violinists such as the dedicatee Pablo de Sarasate, together later with Eugène Ysaye and Jacques Thibaud, included in their repertoires Camille Saint-Saëns' concert piece composed in 1...

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,...

Johannes Brahms's only violin concerto, one of the most important violin concertos of the 19th century, is now a central repertoire piece. This fact is all the more notable, as, by his own account, Br...

I want to do an edition that is not a Koopman interpretation, but brings only what is really Handel.' (Ton Koopman)

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 nach der Leipziger Mendelssohn-Gesamtausgabe 28' 2.2.2.2. - 2.2.0.0. - Pk - Str - (Schmidt-Beste, Thomas). The land of artists is Germany, Mendelssohn wrote in 1831 of his trip from Italy, but...

I want to do an edition that is not a Koopman interpretation, but brings only what is really Handel.' (Ton Koopman)

Russian music researcher Polina Vajdman has gone back to all relevant sources in her editing.

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

The much-played 'Scottish', which incidentally Mendelssohn never called so, appears in the Urtext edition in a new light.

For the 'Fidelio' overture, composed at lightning speed in 1814, a copy of the score in the Austrian National Library today provides a reliable basis for a new text-critical edition.

Schumann's 'Sinfonietta' in the Urtext The intensity with which Schumann dealt with the symphony is shown not only by the four known works themselves, but also by compositions that stand between the g...

Ravel's multi-layered homage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his homage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel turns less to Couperin himself than to French music of the 18th century. On the other hand, editor Je...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy created a standard work with his final violin concerto in E minor op. 64 MWV O 14 that is now firmly established in today's concert repertoire. When in 1838 the composer in...

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his 'Don Juan') of his reputation and above all of his 'value' as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by...

Tod und Verklärung marks a turning point in Richard Strauss's corpus of tone poems: Even before the November 1889 premiere of his previous work Don Juan, Strauss had finished his third work in this ge...

The famous Valse triste grew out of the incidental music to Arvid Järnefelts drama Kuolema (Death). After the first staged performances in December 1903 at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Si...

Indispensable repertoire work; first critical version; two versions of the ballad included in score and piano reduction Carl Reinecke was interested in exploring music and not just "snacking" on it. I...

“The Blue Danube“ is said to be Austria’s secret anthem, and alongside the “Radetzky March” it is the traditional encore piece at the annual New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Al...