Classical Sheet Music

The idea behind the 'Classical Piano Sonatas' of the preclassical and classical eras is to help the pianist find his way more easily within the profusion of literature in this genre, the most importan...

Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata op. 143 in a minor was composed in 1823 after his large 'Wanderer Fantasy'. With its formal cohesion and mature originality, this a-minor Sonata initiated a new phase in...

Grieg's second book of Lyric Pieces was published 16 years after its predecessor, but immediately reprised the huge success of the former collection. Interestingly enough, the original title pages of...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his five large piano concertos over a period of twenty years. His Fifth Concerto in E-flat major op. 73, first published in 1810/11, is here presented in a piano reductio...

In contrast to Mozart, Haydn was not a keyboard virtuoso. He certainly conducted his orchestral works from the harpsichord, and also performed his own piano sonatas, but any ambition to be a concertiz...

This single edition - it is number 10 in the first volume of the Préludes (HN 383) of 1910 - shows the extent of Debussy's imagination as he conjures up the old city of Ys that has sunk into the sea....

The extraordinary popularity of the first two books of Lyric Pieces (opp. 12 and 38) was interpreted differently by Grieg and his publisher. Whereas Grieg would have liked to call his third book 'Spri...

Spanish music with a universal touch': that is what Isaac Albéniz set out to compose, and he brought it off to perfection in his Iberia Suite. At last all four 'books' of this late-romantic masterpiec...

Since their publication as Urtext editions, the first two volumes of 'Iberia' issued by G. Henle Publishers have become an established part of the pianists' world. Now comes the third book, in which A...

With the fourth and last book, our blue Urtext editions of the 'Iberia' cycle are now complete. Albéniz had greatly struggled to complete the work because he was very ill. Yet he was able to hand over...

Max Reger's powerful organ work is published for the first time in the previously unknown authentic version for piano four hands. The manuscript only came into the possession of the Reger Institute in...

Not every listener will immediately realize that this piece, which begins in the style of a dream-like nocturne with one of Chopin's most enchanting melodic ideas, originated as a piano etude. But upo...

The Nocturne op. 37 no. 2, composed in 1839, is a perfect example of the rich, pearling cascades of thirds and sixths that keep Chopin's piano works at the top of the popularity list and as beloved to...

Chopin's furioso c-minor etude has become famous as the 'Revolutionary Etude'. According to unsubstantiated legend, the composer wrote it in September 1831 when news of the crushing of the Polish upri...

Chopin applied himself the waltz genre throughout his life, and created a broad spectrum of musical possibilities from profoundly melancholic and atmospheric mood-pieces to showpieces of extraordinary...

Chopin's Polonaise in A major op. 40 no. 1 is better known as the 'Military Polonaise'. Indeed, the brisk rhythm, the 'drum roll' in the middle section and the heroic demeanour of the work in general...

The popular nickname 'Minute Waltz' should not mislead the pianist into playing this 'string of pearls' too hastily. Another nickname is more effective, that of 'Petit Chien' Puppy that is frequently...

With a versatility and naturalness as appropriate to the salon as to the concert hall, Chopin's Nocturnes rank among the works that brought the composer not only fame, but also enormous renown. The de...

To this day, Brahms' Hungarian Dances number among his most popular works - although he didn't even write them! As he expressly noted on the title page of the first edition, he 'only compiled them for...

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky numbers among the most frequently performed composers in the concert halls of the world. He had already composed two symphonies, three operas, the fantasy-overture 'Romeo and...

Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata in a minor op. post. 164, presented here in an Urtext edition, numbers among his early sonatas written between 1815 and 1819. In many of these pieces, Schubert still stru...

A work of transcendent beauty and rich programmatic allusions, Skrjabin's single-movement sixth Piano Sonata is a highly expressive product of the composer's final outburst of piano music. This editio...

Grieg's successful series of Lyric Pieces reaches a unique climax in the eighth book. After the publisher almost had to force him - Grieg was at the point of becoming tired of composing Lyric Pieces -...

Beethoven had nothing against composing for money - with delightful results! On a commission from the Scottish folksong collector George Thompson he wrote no fewer than sixteen sets of variations for...

Liszt's 'Transcendental Studies' of 1852 are without doubt among the triumphs of virtuoso piano music, and their visionary language and poetic expression make them a milestone of the romantic age. Thi...