Intermediate Sheet Music from G. Henle Verlag

Called 'Kurfürstensonaten' (Prince-Elector sonatas), these three sonatas were published in fall 1783. In the dedication - which was most certainly not formulated by Beethoven - one reads: 'Most lofty...

Václav Jan Tom ek (1774-1850) was a celebrated piano virtuoso of his time and one of Prague's leading musicians. He also made a name for himself as a teacher. Jan Hugo Vo?횀ek, who was highly gifted,...

Jan Hugo Vo?횀ek (1791-1825), born the year that Mozart died, is, we believe, the one who stands out amongst the Bohemian composers at the time of Beethoven. He is currently enjoying a well-deserved r...

Next to the polonaises and the waltzes, the mazurkas are the third dance form which Chopin cultivated in his music. They constitute the largest of these three groups, boasting nearly 60 pieces. Chopin...

This is a wonderful selection of Piano Sonatas by Muzio Clementi. A dedicated player and pioneer of the Piano, which led to him being dubbed the father of the piano, Italian composer and Pianist Muzio...

This Henle Urtext edition is very special, for behind the 'Selected Piano Works' concept is a compilation of Chopin's most popular pieces. Moreover, the editor and publisher have placed great weight o...

These variations are among Handel's best-known keyboard works. The composer was allegedly inspired to create its unusual theme when, seeking refuge in a smithy's shop from a sudden rain-shower, he hea...

In this volume are to be found many small but pleasing piano pieces by the 19th-century composer Stephen Heller. The majority are of only medium difficulty, but their sound always has a particular cha...

At the end of his short life Franz Schubert impressively illustrated, in his collections of 'Impromptus' and 'Moments musicaux', how lyrical-songlike form could be rendered on the piano. The Impromptu...

As their title suggests, Franz Schubert's 'Moment musicaux' are quite short pieces - shorter than his 'Impromptus'. Six pieces in various moods and of moderate difficulty are collected under the opus...

As a pedagogue and composer, Johann Sebastian Bach's second eldest son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, was preeminent in the field of keyboard music during the transitional period between the baroque and class...

As a pedagogue and composer, Johann Sebastian Bach's second eldest son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, was preeminent in the field of keyboard music during the transitional period between the baroque and class...

Those wishing to get to know Mozart's gentle, slightly elegiac side should play the opening movement of this lesser-known piano sonata K. 570. The second movement, too, marries the calm strains of hor...

Niels W. Gade, who occasionally substituted for Felix Mendelssohn as conductor of the Gewandhaus Concerts in Leipzig, is today considered the most important Danish composer. In his 'Spring Flowers' op...

Theodor Kirchner was a successful pianist, pedagogue and composer in Leipzig, Dresden, Zurich, Winterthur and Hamburg. His very extensive output includes works for piano, organ, chamber music and choi...

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was Johann Sebastian Bach's eldest son and more closely linked to the spirit of baroque music than were his younger brothers. In our anthology of three keyboard sonatas, two fa...

Antonio Soler composed more than 500 sacred choral musical pieces in his native Spain. Today, though, it is his 200-or-so keyboard sonatas that are arousing the curiosity of performers. Our anthology...

In his numerous collections of small character pieces, the imaginative Max Reger gradually developed a style of his own, in the shadow of the Romantic epigones. His music is characterised by modulatin...

Mozart's only piano sonata in E-flat major was probably written during his stay in Munich in early 1775. Its first movement - an Adagio, unconventionally - is one of those pieces by the young genius t...

Curiously enough, only one of Mozart's eighteen piano sonatas (and also only one of his 23 piano concerti) is in the pianistically rewarding key of G major: the sonata K. 283. It numbers among those s...

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...

Handel and fugues? The connection is not the first thing to cross our minds when we think of baroque keyboard music. Yet Handel, besides writing keyboard fugues as parts of larger works, also turned o...

Though the autograph has disappeared, this posthumously published waltz is a jewel of Chopin's art, effectively combining dramatic passages with outpourings of lyricism. Despite its virtuoso brillianc...