Classical Sheet Music

The world-famous pianist András Schiff, a most familiar name to Bach fans on account of his complete recordings of Bach's piano works, has provided fingerings for both parts of the Well-Tempered Clavi...

Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas 6–8 are often referred to as “war sonatas”, since they were composed in Russia during World War II during times of great hardship. As the shortest of the three, no. 7 is enti...

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 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...

In 1913, three years after publication of the Préludes I, another collection of twelve Préludes appeared. The pieces are longer and make use of a very wide register, which is why Debussy mainly notate...

This piece, probably the young Debussy's best known piano piece, was the slow third movement of his Suite bergamasque (HN 381) in four movements. Although it is conventional as far as the harmony is c...

Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's sister, wrote music throughout her life. She originally published her songs and piano pieces under her brother's name, but soon began to use her own name in...

This dark and tragic sonata in A minor, composed in Paris in 1778, tends to be linked with the death of Mozart's mother on 3 July 1778. While this of course cannot be ruled out, not a single concrete...

Franz Schubert's piano works belong to pianists' core repertoire and of course, to Henle's, too. Our catalogue contains almost all of Schubert's piano compositions. This volume contains the piano work...

As did many piano virtuosi at the time, Robert Schumann also dreamt of presenting himself to the public simultaneously as a pianist and composer with his own piano concerto. He had made several first...

The Scottish ballad 'Edward' from J. G. Herders anthology of folk songs 'Stimmen der Völker in Liedern' made such a deep impression on Brahms that, as he told a friend, the melodies came to him effort...

Amy Beach (1867-1944) wrote these Four Sketches for piano in 1892. Movements: 1. In Autumn, 2. Phantoms, 3. Dreaming, 4. Fire-flies.

A new arrangement four piano duet (four hands) of Dmitri Shostakovich's famous Waltz no. 2 for Suite for Variety Orchestra divides melody and accompaniment equally between the two voices.

The Virtuoso Pianist is an essential book of studies for all pianist's wishing to develop and secure technical control. These studies are designed to strengthen individual fingers and fingering combin...

Erst Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts wiederentdeckt, gilt das musikalische Werk des russischen Komponisten V. P. Zaderatsky heute als eines der bedeutendsten künstlerischen Phänomene der ersten Hälfte des...

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Chopin's nocturnes seem to be the most romantic; together with the mazurkas, they belong to the group of works by the master which is also accessible to the less experienced player. Both may explain t...