Intermediate Sheet Music from G. Henle Verlag

The popular nickname 'Minute Waltz' should not mislead the pianist into playing this 'string of pearls' too hastily. Another nickname is more effective, that of 'Petit Chien' Puppy that is frequently...

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky numbers among the most frequently performed composers in the concert halls of the world. He had already composed two symphonies, three operas, the fantasy-overture 'Romeo and...

This 'little' D-major sonata is somewhat the pansy (or violet?) among Mozart's eighteen piano sonatas. It is 'little' in dimensions when compared to the two other sonatas in the same key of D major (K...

None other than András Schiff is collaborating with Henle Publishers for the edition of Mozart's piano concertos. His piano reductions are aimed at amateurs rather than professionals; his fingerings f...

Beethoven only arranged one of his piano sonatas for a different instrumentation: an authentic arrangement of the Sonata op. 14 no. 1 for string quartet still exists (it is published in an appendix to...

'... as your bride, you must indeed dedicate something further to me, and I know of nothing more tender than these 3 Romances, in particular the middle one, which is the most beautiful love duet.' It...

2009 was Mendelssohn's anniversary year and this has occasioned us to publish in addition to the already existing 'Songs without Words' HN 327 nearly all of his piano compositions in two new extensive...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

Just a few months after completing his Cello Sonata op. 6, Strauss composed another work for this instrument: a Romance for cello and orchestra, which remained unpublished during his lifetime. Accordi...

Written in 1815, the two Sonatas op. 102 mark the transition to the often austere sonorities of Beethoven's late style. One reviewer of the original edition noted in 1818 that they 'doubtless number a...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wrote three major works for cello and piano, a task he particularly enjoyed since his brother Paul was a cellist. Following the early Variations op. 17 (1829) and the Sonat...

Though only a minor pendant to the great Cello Concerto, Antonín Dvorák's Rondo op. 94 is an effective and entertaining piece that belongs in the standard repertoire of every cellist. Dvorák composed...

Debussy wrote these two short dances to a commission from the instrument-making firm of Pleyel, which was keen to use famous names in the marketing of its newly-developed chromatic harp. The dances ar...

In addition to the famous solo concerto, many of Tchaikovsky's violin works have entered the standard violinist's repertoire. An outstanding example is the Valse-Scherzo, sparkling with playfulness, w...

Elements of Spanish folklore dominate in Sarasate's compositions, but several prominent works also use typical melodies and dances of other countries. Alongside the 'Zigeunerweisen', the 'Introduction...

Brahms completed his Violin Sonata in d minor op. 108 in 1888. It was the culmination of several years of work, and his final contribution to the genre. This Third Sonata is his only one in a minor ke...

Johannes Brahms's three famous sonatas op. 78, 100 and 108 are among the most beautiful that the violin repertoire has to offer. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Brahms had actually composed more for this...

Violinist Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, a friend of Mendelssohn, was one of the great virtuosi of his age, standing alongside Paganini, Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski. Like them, he left behind a series of compo...

Johannes Brahms began to manifest a keen interest in the genre of the violin sonata at an early age. In fall 1853 he offered the Leipzig publisher a violin sonata in a minor. The work was turned down,...

Bach's E major Violin Concerto has survived solely in the form of a copy, but in view of its significant compositional substance, and of Bach's arrangement (which has come down to us as an autograph)...

For the editor of an Urtext edition, Bach's A minor violin concerto BWV 1041 presents few problems; cleanly-written original parts exist from Bach's Köthen (or early Leipzig) period. But beyond the gu...

The Sonata in G major owes its epithet 'Rain Song Sonata' to two melodies from Brahms' 'Rain Songs' op. 59 nos. 3 and 4 which are quoted at the beginning of the last movement. An ornamental leaf with...

A pearl in the romantic repertoire, Bruch's 'Romance” has long occupied a permanent place in its original version for viola, whether in lessons or on the concert stage. Our edition is the first to tak...

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his ten violin sonatas during a period of just fifteen years, between 1797 and 1812. Using our carefully revised two-volume edition of the complete sonatas, the performer ca...

Bach's harpsichord concertos have proven extremely popular, though several were originally written as concertos for another solo instrument - either violin or a woodwind instrument. But we know nothin...