Breitkopf & Hartel Urtext

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

Dieterich Buxtehude war ein versierter Gambenspieler. Darauf deutet nicht nur das berühmte Porträt der Häuslichen Musikszene von Johannes Voorhout (1674) hin, sondern es zeigt sich besonders in seinen...

First Urtext edition based on the Complete EditionModerate difficulty allows an introduction to Mendelssohn's world of sound Mendelssohn had a special relationship with the violin. Although he had a p...

Promising With his 2nd Viola Sonata from 1959, Josef Schelb (1894-1977) gave the viola a representative work with the potential for a significant concert career - despite the wealth of repertoire of t...

Die beiden Sonaten op. 120 von Johannes Brahms gelten allgemein als Höhepunkte des Repertoires für Klarinette und Klavier. Ebenso zählen sie in der von Brahms selbst besorgten Ausgabe für Viola und Kl...

Raff's Cello Sonata op. 183 appeared in print in late 1873; at a time when Raff's success was at its zenith with Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5 as well as many chamber works. Little is known about the circum...

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...

Not only a son of Bach Ever since the festivities for his 3rd centenary, it is manifest that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is not only a great name but also a great composer. Over the last decades, schola...

Not only a son of Bach Ever since the festivities for his 3rd centenary, it is manifest that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is not only a great name but also a great composer. Over the last decades, schola...

Not only a son of Bach Ever since the festivities for his 3rd centenary, it is manifest that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is not only a great name but also a great composer. Over the last decades, schola...

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 two sonatas of Johannes Brahms's op. 120 are widely hailed as crowning points of the repertoire for clarinet and piano. Moreover, in the version for viola and piano arranged by Brahms himself, the...

Characteristic Numbers Sibelius completed his final opus-number compositions, opp. 115 and 116, in 1929. They were originally composed at the suggestion of the publishers Carl Fischer, Inc., but were...

The violin was Sibelius's instrument, and the virtuoso aspect is eminent in Drei Stücke Op. 116 as well as in his entire oeuvre for violin and piano. Apart from that, Op. 116 provides a glimpse into t...

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...

Die Violinsonate Nr. 1 e-moll op. 73, eine "Große Sonate für Violine und Klavier", nimmt in Joachim Raffs Schaffen eine wichtige Stellung ein: Sie spiegelt zahlreiche, für Raff charakteristische, küns...

With his Six Morceaux, Raff created a collection of six short pieces with the aim of 'pleasantly entertaining many a listener' and demonstrating that he was 'also capable of writing something easy'. A...

Gál composed his Violin-Concerto in 1931/32 at the height of his career. In 1929, as an internationally recognised composer, he had been appointed Director of the Mainz Music College. The new concerto...

Franz Beyers Urtext-Ausgabe hält sich, auch in Fällen gelegentlicher Inkonsequenz hält sich an die Niederschrift Mozarts.

Eisler: Complete Edition (HEGA) Series VI (Film Music) Volume 10 The 'Hanns Eisler Complete Edition' sets out for new shores. Two volumes or three scores open the extensive Group VI 'Film Music'. With...

Daphnis et Chloé 'is certainly not only one of Ravel's best works, but also one of French music's most beautiful creations,' thus, Stravinsky's view of this ballet in his memoirs, published in 1935. C...

Erstdruck aus dem Album eines Sammlers Zwischen all den umfangreichen Veröffentlichungen im ereignisreichen Mendelssohn-Jahr 2009 liess ein kleiner Erstdruck aufhorchen. Das bis jetzt unbekannte 'Heil...

Johann Kuhnaus überliefertes Vokalwerk wird den Katalog von Breitkopf & Härtel in den kommenden Jahren vollständig ergänzen. In der Regel sprechen wir dabei con Kantaten, zumindest jedoch von Werken m...

Im Jahr 1896 komponierte Sibelius die Hymne op. 21, auch bekannt unter den Anfangsworten Natus in curas, für die Enthüllung des Grabdenkmals von Josef Pippingsköld (1825-1892), Professor für Geburtshi...