Henle Piano Sheet Music

Complete edition linen

Complete edition linen

While original music for large ensembles was usually arranged for piano 4 hands in order to make this music experienceable in a house music setting, these arrangements have their own musical value and...

The volume contains Bartók's central piano works, including the extremely popular Romanian Folk Dances, known in numerous arrangements, the Suite op. 14, and the Sonatina. The volume offers a wealth o...

Mikrokosmos - critical report. Yusuke Nakahara (Editor). Complete Edition, critical report, clothbound, 41. Joint publishing venture with Editio Musica Budapest

Beethoven's three piano sonatas op. 10 are of very dissimilar nature. Beethoven published them in 1798 and dedicated them to Countess von Browne-Camus, the wife of a Russian patron to whom he was inde...

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...

Beethoven's E-flat major Piano Sonata, the companion piece to the celebrated 'Moonlight' sonata (op. 27 no. 2), is one that pianists especially admire and enjoy playing. This volume is an inexpensive...

Schubert's mighty G-major Sonata in the definitive Henle edition (single edition taken from volume 2 of the Piano Sonatas, HN 148).?

Haydn's c minor Piano Sonata (Hob. XVI:20) has been called, by the leading Haydn scholar Lászlo Somfai, the most significant piano piece between Bach's death and Mozart's mature Viennese sonatas. Pete...

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...

Obermann', the epistolary novel by the French Romantic Senancour, inspired Liszt to write the first volume in his collection 'Années de Pèlerinage' (HN 173). A wanderer is searching for his ideals in...

In his late work Beethoven devoted himself intensively to the forms of baroque polyphony. He originally composed the 'Große Fuge' as the final movement of the String Quartet in Bb major op. 130. Howev...

Whose ears are not instantly filled with the dreamy flute solo when Debussy's 'Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune' is mentioned? Very few people know that before he wrote the orchestral score Debussy m...

The Scottish General Meredith Read called on Debussy in 1890 with a rather unusual request: Read acquainted the composer with a traditional bagpipe melody from his home country and asked him to write...

In summer 1891 Scriabin hurt his right hand through too much practice. For this reason he cultivated his playing with his left hand for which he composed his Prélude et Nocturne op. 9 in 1894. Both pi...

Scriabin's ideal of music as part of a synthesis of the arts, raising people to a higher level of consciousness, is particularly apparent in his late work 'Vers la flamme' op. 72. The poème opens with...

The first movement of Maurice Ravel's Sonatine for piano was probably written in 1903. At any rate the composer played it on 8 January 1904 at a soirée held at the salon of Marguerite de Saint-Marceau...

The Six Sonatas K. 279-284 were probably written around the beginning of 1775. Mozart refers to them in letters that he sent to his father from his trip to Paris (1777-79). In these letters he often r...

Mozart assembled this sonata from two parts that had been composed at different times. The Rondo K. 494 is from 1786. It was only in January 1788 that Mozart composed the two pieces K. 533, and had Ho...

The three popular Intermezzi op. 117 can be seen as the epitome of Brahms' late work for piano. Clara Schumann confessed: 'In these pieces I at last feel musical life stir once again in my soul'. Brah...