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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...

With marked and unmarked string part 1873 was a turning point for Dvorák. Precipitated by the rejection of his opera 'The King and the Charcoal Burner', he tried to give his compositions a new directi...

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)...

'I would gladly have done some more fiddling, but I was accompanied so badly that it gave me the colic.' Thus Mozart, writing to his father on 16 October 1777. He would probably have taken great pleas...

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...

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...

The cellist Sebastian Lee from Hamburg was not just the celebrated solo cellist of the Paris Opera, but also wrote numerous compositions for his instrument. In addition to today forgotten salon pieces...

Written in 1885, the eight songs after texts by the now little-known poet Hermann von Gilm have a special place in Richard Strauss' corpus of Lieder. For the first time, he composed an entire set of s...

Written in 1885, the eight songs after texts by the now little-known poet Hermann von Gilm have a special place in Richard Strauss' corpus of Lieder. For the first time, he composed an entire set of s...

1840 was Schumann’s famous “year of song” that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated “to his dear bride”, Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as “...

1840 was Schumann’s famous “year of song” that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated “to his dear bride”, Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as “...

1840 was Schumann's famous 'year of song' that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen op. 25, which he dedicated 'to his dear bride', Clara Wieck-Schumann. Besides famous songs such as '...

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...

As astonishing as it might sound, Mozart was already composing piano sonatas (K. 6-9) at the age of seven. It is wonderfully fresh and varied music. We have already published Urtext editions of these...

In 1764 the eight-year-old Mozart wrote the Sonatas K. 10-15 in London. Leopold Mozart was only able to understand his son's musical genius in terms of it being a God-given wonder: 'That my boy ... kn...

The Six Sonatas for Piano K. 26-31 that can also have a violin accompaniment were composed in The Hague. They were published in 1766 and were dedicated to Princess Caroline von Nassau-Weilburg. These...

Clementi not only dedicated himself to the piano as a virtuoso and composer but also as a teacher, music publisher and instrument maker - so it is no wonder that he was referred to as the 'Father of t...

Immerse yourself in the consummate counterpoint of Johann Sebastian Bach: The "Four Duets BWV 802–805", originally published as part of the celebrated "Clavier-Übung III", are masterful two-part compo...