Classical Sheet Music

The revision was made on the basis of Mozart's autograph, which today, after being moved from the Prussian State Library to Poland during World War II, is in the Jagiellonska Library in Kraków.

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.

The main differences from the available editions concern mainly articulation and dynamics in movements 1, 2 and 4. This Critical Report is a treasure trove for the practitioner ...

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.

With sovereign expertise, Hauschild manages to combine source criticism and the requirements of performance practice, while also keeping the Critical Report (included in the score, of course) concise.

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.

Immediately after the 12 string symphonies (1821-1823), the 15-year-old Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wrote a 'Sinfonia XIII' in C minor in March 1824.

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.

Mendelssohn's overture was inspired by two poems by Goethe, which had already inspired Ludwig van Beethoven to write a choral work accompanied by orchestra. The main work on this piece probably took p...

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...

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...