Intermediate Sheet Music from G. Henle Verlag

This dark and tragic sonata in A minor, composed in Paris in 1778, tends to be linked with the death of Mozart's mother on 3 July 1778. While this of course cannot be ruled out, not a single concrete...

As did many piano virtuosi at the time, Robert Schumann also dreamt of presenting himself to the public simultaneously as a pianist and composer with his own piano concerto. He had made several first...

Unlike other late works by Franck, the Violin Sonata of 1886 found a friendly reception among critics and public from the outset. It is dedicated to Eugène Ysaye, who was attracting much attention at...

The world-famous pianist András Schiff, a most familiar name to Bach fans on account of his complete recordings of Bach's piano works, has provided fingerings for both parts of the Well-Tempered Clavi...

When Mendelssohn learned from his publisher Nikolaus Simrock that he was to receive an additional honorarium for a part of his 'Lieder ohne Worte', he effusively thanked him for this gift. However, th...

This piece, probably the young Debussy's best known piano piece, was the slow third movement of his Suite bergamasque (HN 381) in four movements. Although it is conventional as far as the harmony is c...

A precious gem of romantic viola literature is now available in Henle quality! Thanks to the publisher's good connections to Russian archives, we were able to assess Glazunov's autograph for the first...

Franz Schubert's piano works belong to pianists' core repertoire and of course, to Henle's, too. Our catalogue contains almost all of Schubert's piano compositions. This volume contains the piano work...

The Scottish ballad 'Edward' from J. G. Herders anthology of folk songs 'Stimmen der Völker in Liedern' made such a deep impression on Brahms that, as he told a friend, the melodies came to him effort...

Originally, Lalo was meant to follow an officer's career but his musical talent soon became apparent and so he decided to become a musician. Every cellist is familiar with his Cello Concerto in d mino...

Carl Maria von Weber's Concerto in f minor is among the compositions of first rank for solo clarinet and is permanently established in the world's concert repertoire. For purposes of comparison, Norbe...

The famous, wonderful first of Schumann's three late violin sonatas, that in a minor op. 105, was written in just a few days in September 1851. In regard to publication of the present edition, violini...

Fingering: Pascal Rogé According to Ravel himself, the strange title of the little piano piece composed in 1899, 'Pavane for a dead princess', should not be ascribed too much importance. He chose it m...

Although Schumann had learnt the cello for a while in his youth, he only began to compose for this instrument in later life. Apart from the cello concerto, only his Five Pieces op. 102 have survived a...

The serenade flourished in Mozart’s era, but with Brahms the genre experienced a new surge in popularity in the 19th century. Dvořák’s cheerful and relaxed op. 22 came into being in 1875, during a ver...

The circumstances in which these poetic 'Soirée Pieces' (thus their original title) came into being are quite surprising. In 1849 Dresden was seized by violent political turmoil that ultimately forced...

Sonata quasi una fantasia' was the title given to it by Beethoven, and yet the world of music knows it as the 'Moonlight Sonata' - an epithet that was already around during the composer's lifetime. 'T...

With Frédéric Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu in c-sharp minor, G. Henle Verlag presents a further Urtext separate issue from among the most popular works of this central composer of romantic piano music...

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are often referred to as the 'New Testament of Music' (Hans von Bülow). Since the publication of our complete edition in two volumes, experts have praised it as being the...

The first of Debussy's larger piano works was published in 1901. The slow middle movement had already been written in 1894. This grave Sarabande in the old style was published in a newspaper supplemen...

Johannes Brahms' "Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9" is one of the most touching and profound piano works of the Romantic era. Composed during a period marked by deep emotional connectio...

Brahms began his career as a pianist. His contribution to the piano music of the 19th century is significant in two respects: following Schubert and Schumann he cultivated the small, lyrical form, whi...

In 1735 Bach published the Italian Concerto, presented here in a revised separate edition, together with the French Overture in the second part of his “Clavier Übung”. The two works were intended to r...

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...

Encouraged by Muzio Clementi, the head of a distinguished publishing house in London, Beethoven transformed his Violin Concerto into a Piano Concerto, but retained the cadenzas to the first and third...