Classical Romantic Music Sheet Music for Orchestra

The genesis and source history of Beethoven's 'Choral Fantasy' is convoluted and poses considerable difficulties for today's research. A definitive 'last hand version' does not exist.

This key work offers a convoluted (and at the same time incomplete) source material. The autograph is lost.

Hauschild's new edition is based on all important primary sources: autograph, first printing of parts, score copies supervised by Beethoven, and finally the first printing of the score.

The genesis and source history of Beethoven's 'Choral Fantasy' is convoluted and poses considerable difficulties for today's research. A definitive 'last hand version' does not exist.

Schumann, The Symphonies 5 study scores in slipcase

The first set of Slavonic Dances, edited by Dvorak expert Klaus Döge, constituted a small series of works in 1996, which continued to grow in the following years.

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...

Oh, the tempi! A terrible thing!, Dvorák repeatedly complained. Not without reason, as the renowned Dvorák expert Klaus Döge found in the edition of the '8th'.

Complete for the first time: Mozart's 'zeroth' Horn ConcertoWhen two sheets with 60 additional measures to the well-known Rondo K. 371 appeared in 1988, it was a sensational discovery.

Cliff Eisen is responsible for a secure original text based on the autograph and knowledge of historical performance practice. Andrew Manze completes the edition with his instrumentally appropriate an...

The triple 'Hafner-Musique' Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the Hafner Symphony K. 385 in the summer of 1782 on the occasion of the nobilization of his friend and patron Sigmund Hafner. In addition t...

The fact that the Sibelius Symphony, which is now performed most often, provoked controversial aesthetic reactions after its first performances in Finland at the time seems almost inconceivable today.

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

For the premiere in London on May 14, 1832, he prepared a fundamental new version, and Mendelssohn continued to fine-tune details until the first printing of the score, which was published by Breitkop...

A visit to the opera provided the impetus for dealing with the fairy-tale theme of the knight Raimund's love for the beautiful mermaid Melusine, which forms the basis of Mendelssohn's fourth concert o...

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...

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...

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...

Johann Sebastian Bachs Magnificat BWV 243 ist eine opulente Festmusik, die in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Besonderheit in seinem Œuvre darstellt. Die erste Fassung (Es-dur, BWV 243.1) erfährt ihre Urauff...

The work of Paul Hindemith is encyclopedic in nature. From the outset, he worked in all musical genres and devised several of his musical ideas and projects not as individual, self-contained works but...

Paul Hindemiths Werk weist enzyklopädische Züge auf: Er bedachte von Anfang an alle musikalischen Gattungen und realisierte einige seiner musikalischen Gedanken und Projekte nicht im einzelnen, abgesc...