Henle Piano Sheet Music

Chopin was probably the first to apply the word 'ballade' to music', Robert Schumann once wrote. He and his contemporaries were only familiar with the term 'ballad' as a literary generic concept. Poem...

With this poetic masterpiece all four of the recently revised 'Ballades” (HN 862) are now available as single editions. Following a restrained opening in C major and the first dreamy sounds of the the...

No other great composer has left so many works for piano four-hands as Franz Schubert - altogether 54 (32 of these with opus number): fantasies, dances, marches, variations, rondos, sonatas etc. - Pla...

The early Piano Sonata op. 4 offers interesting insights into the young Chopin's compositional development. In all probability written during his student years at the Warsaw Conservatory and highly pr...

Haydn only made piano arrangements of his own works in very special cases. The popularity of his hymn 'Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser' (God Save Emperor Francis) did not simply occasion him to write th...

When he switched from the harpsichord to the fortepiano in the 1780s, Joseph Haydn found he had a rich palette of sound colours and dynamic variations at his disposal, and he employed them enthusiasti...

Franz Xaver Mozart was W. A. Mozart's youngest son. Intended for a career in music by his mother from the very beginning, he followed in his father's footsteps but was not able to step out from under...

Along with the beautiful facsimile edition of the autograph score to be published on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's birth (HN 3221), we are also publishing a completely rev...

The 'Valses oubliées' belong to Liszt's late work, characterised by themes such as memory, sorrow and grief. They do not form a cycle but were written as separate pieces between 1881 and 1884. The tit...

Often referred to by pianists as the 'Dante Sonata', it is the closing piece in the second volume of the 'Années de Pèlerinage' (HN 174) and is now finally available as a single edition. In 1839, whil...

Liszt's piano cycle 'Harmonies poétiques et religieuses' (HN 639) was inspired by religious-philosophical poems of the French Romantic Alphonse de Lamartine. Whereas the cycle as a whole remained comp...

About three years after the publication of the second volume of his 'Années de Pèlerinage' (Italy), Liszt added a supplement to this collection: the triptych 'Venezia e Napoli'. For this he reworked t...

In the 19th century, arrangements for piano four-hands were usually versions which people played at home if the works could not be heard in concert. In cases such as these Brahms did not, however, jus...

Prokofiev did not compose his Visions fugitives – 20 “fleeting visions” – in one go, but in clusters between 1915 and 1917, immediately before the Russian Revolution that compelled him to leave his na...

Apart from the major cycles (partitas, French and English suites), a whole series of separate keyboard suites by Bach have come down to us, including individual sonatas or sonata movements, variations...

As an avowed Schubert fan, Franz Liszt also liked to play transcriptions of Schubert’s songs in his piano recitals. He initially had an arrangement of the "Trout" by Stephen Heller in his repertoire,...

'I wish to do it to reflect the character of Mad:selle Rose,' Mozart replied when asked how he intended to set out the Andante of his Sonata in C major. In autumn 1777 he had got to know Rosina Cannab...

This edition with over 50 pages contains the universally known selection of easy preludes and little fugues that has proved extremely successful in teaching the piano. Bach's sons, with Wilhelm Friede...

Fauré's 13 Nocturnes form the most significant group of piano character pieces in his oeuvre. Despite their title - which places them in the tradition of John Field and Frédéric Chopin - Fauré here de...

With opuses 1, 2, 4, 5, and 10, this volume contains virtually all of Johannes Brahms' early piano oeuvre, with which the budding composer and pianist introduced himself to the public. The Scherzo op....

Although people might like to think that the 'English Suites' were composed after the 'French Suites', 'the temperamental and in part virtuoso flow of these Suites is more characteristic of the musica...

Although people might like to think that the 'English Suites' were composed after the 'French Suites', 'the temperamental and in part virtuoso flow of these Suites is more characteristic of the musica...

Rachmaninoff's Prélude in D major from his op. 23 collection is a wonderfully dreamy nocturne in the style of Chopin. The engaging immediacy of its poetic magic and the fact that it is only moderately...