Classical Sheet Music

None other than András Schiff is collaborating with Henle Publishers for the edition of Mozart's piano concertos. His piano reductions are aimed at amateurs rather than professionals; his fingerings f...

None other than András Schiff is collaborating with Henle Publishers for the edition of Mozart's piano concertos. His piano reductions are aimed at amateurs rather than professionals; his fingerings f...

None other than András Schiff is collaborating with Henle Publishers for the edition of Mozart's piano concertos. His piano reductions are aimed at amateurs rather than professionals; his fingerings f...

Though the autograph has disappeared, this posthumously published waltz is a jewel of Chopin's art, effectively combining dramatic passages with outpourings of lyricism. Despite its virtuoso brillianc...

Beethoven's three Piano sonatas op. 2 were the first works in this genre to which he gave an opus number, thus signalling to the music world the special importance that he assigned to them. He wrote t...

Beethoven's three Piano sonatas op. 2 were the first works in this genre to which he gave an opus number, thus signalling to the music world the special importance that he assigned to them. He wrote t...

After composing the three Piano Sonatas op. 2 between 1794/95, Beethoven presumably planned a further trilogy without delay. Because of its enormous scope, the Grande Sonata op. 7 was removed from thi...

Catalan piano virtuoso and composer Isaac Albéniz received his musical training under Liszt, Vincent d'Indy and Paul Dukas, among others. Today's pianists mostly dedicate themselves to Albéniz's exten...

> Edition based on the autograph > Musical text is the definitive version as in Mozart's manuscript > The fifth Mozart piano concerto in our series with András Schiff< >> Orchestral material available...

The Piano Sonata op. 101 marks the transition to Beethoven's late works. The composer's increasing deafness was already manifesting itself in such a marked way that he no longer dared to appear public...

A wonderful piece, but very difficult - only a few will be able to master it ...'. Since this pronouncement by Nicolai Rubinstein, who nonetheless premièred it with bravura, the work has unjustly been...

We have begun with numbers 2 and 6: in the coming years we will be producing editions of all of Franz Liszt's 'Hungarian Rhapsodies', brilliant pianistic excesses and a favourite with all virtuosos. H...

Liszt's ninth Rhapsody is the 'Carnival at Pest' - one of the few Hungarian Rhapsodies to which he gave a name. Once again Liszt turns to Hungarian folk melodies and fuses them with improvisatory elem...

This work, in which Liszt draws on five different folk themes, is surely one of his most ingenious Hungarian Rhapsodies. It offers a unique mix of melancholy, glittering keyboard acrobatics and stormy...

The Rákóczi march is often referred to as the 'Hungarian Marseillaise'. The beginnings of this march song go back to around 1730. In the text, the Hungarians summon Franz II Rákóczi to free his people...

Beethoven only arranged one of his piano sonatas for a different instrumentation: an authentic arrangement of the Sonata op. 14 no. 1 for string quartet still exists (it is published in an appendix to...

Berg's pupil Adorno once said, 'Whoever is seriously trying to comprehend Berg's music should closely apply themselves to the eleven-page piano sonata'. It is tempting to enlarge upon this statement:...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel was one of the most famous pianists of his time, who could even compete with Beethoven. Among his numerous compositions for piano solo, the Sonata in F-sharp minor op. 81 stands...

According to Dvorak 'good music must also sound good on the piano'. This is why, on his publisher's request, he not only wrote the original version of his Dumky-Trio but was also willing to write one...

La Vega' depicts the view over the plain of Granada, as seen from the Arabian palace, the Alhambra. The attractive landscape inspired Albéniz to compose this delicate, impressionistic work with an alm...

Hardly any piece of music is as closely associated with the term "salon music" as Christian Sinding’s "Rustle of Spring". After its publication in 1896, it quickly became one of Sinding’s most popular...

Moritz Moszkowski’s "Étincelles" (sparks) was written in 1886 and numbers among the composer’s best known character pieces. Sparkling runs, elastic repetitions and a dance-like lightness lend the piec...

Born in Prague in 1852, Alfred Grünfeld became a "chamber virtuoso" as a pianist in Vienna during the 1870s and was well-connected within the musical circles of the Danube metropolis. Johann Strauss J...

There were two reasons behind Weber's hesitation to perform his opus 79, known as 'Concert Piece' in public. As he wrote to the music journalist Friedrich Rochlitz, experience had shown that concertos...

As with his famous 'Asturias', Albéniz' transcription of 'Mallorca' for guitar became a great deal more popular than the original version for piano. He probably composed this tender, dreamy 'barcaroll...