Henle Piano Sheet Music

Very few musicians are aware of the fact that Beethoven arranged his violin concerto also as a piano concerto. It is only recently that some pianists have discovered this truly rewarding work. Clement...

The most important source for the fundamentally revised edition is Schumann's hand copy. The poetic motti that Schumann noted at the end of the autograph are reproduced in the appended remarks.

Composed in Vienna in 1838 along with several other shorter pieces, Schumann's Arabesque has found a permanent place in the general piano repertoire. It may owe its lightness and grace to Schumann's u...

The stories surrounding Frédéric Chopin's winter holiday on Mallorca with George Sand in 1838/39 are widely known. It was there, in adverse conditions, that Chopin completed his 'Préludes' op. 28 whic...

Some of Gershwin's finest inspirations have not as yet been either published or publicly performed. It is probable that the production of his twenty-four preludes … will award him a still higher rank...

Gershwin's Concerto was premiered on December 3, 1925, in Carnegie Hall - the epicentre of New York's classical music scene. It belongs to a group of self-imposed 'experiments' with which the composte...

Who was 'Pauline, Countess of Abegg', the dedicatee of the first edition? Nowadays it is known that the matter revolves around a romantic mystification of the name of Meta Abegg, a friend from Schuman...

Chopin left behind only a few works in the main form of the classical era, the sonata - of these, the Piano Sonata op. 58 certainly numbers among his most important. Formally, it is more conventionall...

Chopin's early works include a wealth of new stimuli for anyone wishing to take a closer look at the creative works of the Polish genius. Up to now the four Rondos have been missing from our catalogue...

Frédéric Chopin's 4 Scherzi are high points in the Romantic piano repertoire. Chopin here takes a traditional genre and fills it with radically new content. They are wild, demonic in tone, and there i...

With humor, 'slow and tender, 'extremely brisk': the very expression marks of the op. 12 'Fantasy Pieces' illuminate their musical universe, a kaleidoscope of ideas and moods. Our revised new edition...

With the publication of the second volume, all of the 'Slavonic Dances' are now available in Urtext. Following the resounding success of the first series op. 46, which immediately made the composer fa...

Blue skies ahead for all music dealers and pianists: this new publication from the House of Henle follows up the huge success of its Jubilee Piano Album. For a highly affordable retail price this cros...

No other great composer left so many works for piano duet as Franz Schubert: altogether 54 (32 of which have an opus number) including fantasias, dances, marches, variations, rondos, sonatas, etc. Amo...

> First modern Urtext edition > The appendix contains an eleventh chorale prelude - published for the first time > Most of them can also be played by amateur pianists Alongside the Chaconne for violin...

The French Bach cult, which began in the early 19th century, reached an initial highpoint around 1850. Charles Gounod, still largely unknown at the time, also studied Bach's works intensively - his ch...

Bach gave his wife Anna Magdalena two handwritten books of music. The second one is of particular value with its gilt-edged, vellum-covered binding. In this little book of 1725 he noted down numerous...

When Günter Henle founded his Urtext publishing company in 1948 he began his catalogue with a two-volume edition (HN 1 and HN 2) of Mozart's 18 piano sonatas. These sonatas remain part of the core rep...

When Günter Henle founded his Urtext publishing company in 1948 he began his catalogue with a two-volume edition (HN 1 and HN 2) of Mozart's 18 piano sonatas. These sonatas remain part of the core rep...

The basis for the musical text was Henle's revised edition of Part I published in 1997 and Yo Tomita's brand new revision of Part II (Spring 2007). A detailed commentary rounds off the editions. Both...

The basis for the musical text of this edition without fingerings was Henle's revised edition of Part I published in 1997 and Yo Tomita's brand new revision of Part II (spring 2007). The eminent Bach...

Although people might like to think that the 'English Suites' were composed after the 'French Suites' (HN 71), 'the temperamental and in part virtuoso flow of these Suites is more characteristic of th...

Hans von Bülow described Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas as 'Music's New Testament'. Since its first appearance, Henle's complete two-volume edition (HN 32 and HN 34) has been valued by specialists as th...

Hans von Bülow described Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas as 'Music's New Testament'. Since its first appearance, Henle's complete two-volume edition (HN 32 and HN 34) has been valued by specialists as th...

Gloomy premonitions plagued Schumann whilst he was working on his latest composition in 1839. The news that his brother Eduard was dying had deeply shaken him. 'Writing a 'Corpse Fantasy' since Monday...