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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...

1936 erhielt Béla Bartók von seinem Schweizer Mäzen Paul Sacher den Kompositionsauftrag zur "Musik für Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug und Celesta". Bartók gelang dabei eines der großen Meisterwerke des...

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...

Of all his symphonies, Mahler gave the Fourth, his favorite and problem child, his most particular attention. 'The Heavenly Life,' a humoresque composed in 1892 for soprano and piano, which he already...

It has aroused passionate reactions ever since its premiere. To this day, Mahler's Fifth remains hard work for performers and listeners alike, as in addition to being an (almost) unsolvable problem fo...

Joachim Raff's Fifth Symphony "Lenore" op. 177, composed in 1872, reveals the composer as a representative of the middle ground between Neo-German aesthetics and the symphonic tradition. It owes its n...

Richard Strauss's last completed tone poem is regarded as the pinnacle of his art of orchestration: "Now I've finally learned to orchestrate," he himself is once supposed to have said about it after t...

Strauss had originally intended that Don Quixote always be performed, if possible, together with Heldenleben, “since Don Q. in particular is only fully comprehensible alongside Heldenleben.” To date,...

“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...

Johann Strauß Sohn revolutionized the Viennese waltz in the 19th century and made it popular all over the world. His works, such as the famous waltzes "The Beautiful Blue Danube" op. 314 and "Tales fr...

In the fall of 1833, Friedrich Wieck confidently announced his daughter’s new composition: "She is now writing a major concerto that is attracting the attention of connoisseurs." At this time, Clara S...

I am now working on a new symphony, entirely in the Finnish spirit, wrote 25-year-old Jean Sibelius to his fiancée, Aino Järnefelt, in April 1891. Just one year later, his work for soprano and bariton...

Orchestrally-conceived, full of energetic vigor, and at times uncompromisingly modern: The two captivating quartets are now available as Urtext editions. With his first String Quartet in D minor, op....

Orchestrally-conceived, full of energetic vigor, and at times uncompromisingly modern: The two captivating quartets are now available as Urtext editions. With his first String Quartet in D minor, op....

In view of Mendelssohn's strong revising obsession, the quintets pose some challenges to the editor: in the A-major quintet, after he replaced an inner movement and switched the order of the movements...

Some eighteen years elapsed between Raff’s first counted String Quartet op. 77 and his Quartets Nos. 6–8 op. 192, combined as one work. As such, Raff parted with the weighty single opus in quartet com...

Some eighteen years elapsed between Raff’s first counted String Quartet op. 77 and his Quartets Nos. 6–8 op. 192, combined as one work. As such, Raff parted with the weighty single opus in quartet com...

Some eighteen years elapsed between Raff’s first counted String Quartet op. 77 and his Quartets Nos. 6–8 op. 192, combined as one work. As such, Raff parted with the weighty single opus in quartet com...

A sensational find while revising: BWV 1067 in the A minor original version for violin

These Impromptus are arrangements of the impromptus for piano from op. 5. The exact date for arranging the piano impromptus for string orchestra is presently not known, but it took place approximately...

Exactly 300 years after Bach completed his unique cosmos of the Sei Solo á Violino senza Basso accompagnato, Kolja Lessing is presenting a collection, rich in discovery, of also 6 solo violin works in...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy enriched the violin repertoire with one of the most significant works in 19th-century music, his Violin Concerto in E-flat minor, Op. 64, MWV O 14. In addition, the compose...

In his Preludes and Fugues, Johann Sebastian Bach made decisive contributions to the development of this genre tradition. The importance of this work group in his own organ oeuvre is confirmed by the...

In his Preludes and Fugues, Johann Sebastian Bach made decisive contributions to the development of this genre tradition. The importance of this work group in his own organ oeuvre is confirmed by the...