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Ravel’s plans for a piano concerto can be traced back to 1906, but it was not until early 1929 that the composer began working on it in earnest. Since its successful premiere in January 1932, the Conc...

His collection of 13 piano songs op. 34, Rachmaninov added a small final piece without any text three years later: Vocalise, which quickly became a worldwide success. Since its premiere in 1916, the m...

His collection of 13 piano songs op. 34, Rachmaninov added a small final piece without any text three years later: Vocalise, which quickly became a worldwide success. Since its premiere in 1916, the m...

The Song of Fingal, Op. 17b, for mixed choir and orchestra is an arrangement of the fourth movement from the Four Songs for Women’s Choir, horns, and harp, Op. 17, which Brahms composed in 1879 at the...

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...

Something "completely new and unheard-of" would be offered to the audience, Robert Schumann wrote to Franz Liszt at the end of 1851, referring to the premiere of his "dramatic poem" Manfred. Already a...

Jean-François Monnard's new Urtext edition is based for the first time on a scholarly comparison of sources. It is based on Ravel's first draft of the score and his final handwritten score.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Joachim Raff’s celebrated first cello concerto is only gradually being rediscovered today. This is astounding, taking into account both the quality of the composition as well as its enthusiastic recep...

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 six last and musically most important symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Breitkopf & Härtel Urtext edition. Editors Cliff Eisen and Henrik Wiese present a text-critical authentic musical...

“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....