Classical Sheet Music for Piano

Since his creative period lay in the deepest romanticism, it stands to reason that the piano virtuoso Frédéric Chopin, who in his short life composed almost exclusively music for his instrument, becam...

Solo to be performed in any way by anyone.

Solostimme, Klavierauszug, Urtextausgabe

This remarkable edition combines the requisite Urtext scholarship with the insights of one the most revered Beethoven pianists of modern times, Claudio Arrau. Beethoven's own fingering is indicated, w...

Using a wide range of the keyboard, this polymetric intermediate piece is a showstopper! Interesting chromatic passages and cascading cross-hand arpeggios give it dramatic flair. Starting in 5/4 with...

For the acquirement of agility, independence, strength, and perfect evenness in the fingers, as well as suppleness of the wrist.

As indestructible as Rachmaninoff's c-sharp-minor Prélude (HN1211) may be, it is not his only Prélude to have begun a 'solo career' of its own: with its rousing rhythms and rhapsodic middle section, t...

In a span of only eight years, between 1794-1802, Beethoven composed twenty piano sonatas, among them his so-called 'Grande Sonate Pathétique' op. 13. It marks the consummation of his Classical style,...

75 years of Henle Urtext: with this anniversary volume, G. Henle Verlag celebrates the enduring success of its Urtext editions. This album features a representative selection of 17 famous, often-playe...

When Günter Henle founded his Urtext publishing house in 1948, the first work in the catalogue was the two volume edition of all of Mozart's piano sonatas. Even today they still bear our numbers HN 1...

Bach gave his wife Anna Magdalena two handwritten books of music. The second one is of particular value with its gilt-edged, vellum-covered binding. In this little book of 1725 he noted down numerous...

When Mendelssohn learned from his publisher Nikolaus Simrock that he was to receive an additional honorarium for a part of his 'Lieder ohne Worte', he effusively thanked him for this gift. However, th...

This 'little Suite” was published in 1908 and was dedicated to the composer's then three-year old daughter: 'To my beloved little Chouchou with the tender excuses of her father for what follows below”...

Combining these two Schumann bestsellers seemed very natural: both of the titles not only reflect their inner association but the technical demands on the pianist are for once not so great (see the le...

Liszt wrote his two Ballades in 1845-49 and 1853 during a time of personal turmoil. The successful virtuoso increasingly saw himself as a composer who strove after formal clarity, as shown by the B mi...

Fréderic Chopin's stay with George Sand on Mallorca in the winter 1838/1839 was ill-fated. Yet Chopin still managed to finish his 'Préludes” there which he had begun to compose in Paris. Today's inter...

This collection of eight piano solos includes a wealth of diverse styles! The composer uses multiple ranges of the piano in these attractive works ranging in style from ballads, a piece with Celtic so...

Modest Mussorgsky composed the piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s wystawki) within a short period of time, between 2nd and 22nd June 1874. At the instigation of the art critic Vladimir...