Intermediate Sheet Music from G. Henle Verlag

This piece, presumably composed around 1890, belongs to a whole series of Debussy’s early works that are indeed still far removed from the seminal piano compositions of his mature period, but, for all...

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...

Alexander Scriabin occupies a special position among the Russian piano composers around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Already in his early works, he went beyond the Chopinesque traditions...

The substantial cycle, published in 1853, unites splendid concert pieces (Bénédiction and Funérailles) and simple, short compositions, which partly make use of Gregorian modes. The volume was composed...

This substantial volume contains all of the works that Tchaikovsky composed or arranged himself for violin and piano. The three larger violin works opp. 26, 34, and 42, which G. Henle Publishers also...

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...

These six dances form the final culmination of Bartók's 'Mikrokosmos' (HN1408-1410), that work of the century comprising over 150 pieces. He dedicated this grouping, collected under its own title, to...

The revision of the three-volume edition of Haydn's piano sonatas also appears in a version without fingerings. Whoever wishes to study the Classical sonata canon in 'pure' Urtext, free from added fin...

The Fifth Hungarian Rhapsody, published in 1853, emerged from several earlier versions. The double character indicated in the sobriquet “Héroïde élégiaque” is based on the two contrary themes: a “hero...

Although it was only published in 1905, Debussy made it clear that this was an early work by writing the date of composition '1890” on the proofs. He had sold the manuscript, now lost, to the publishe...

In autumn 1891 Debussy's early piano piece, Ballade slave, was published by Choudens. When he had it re-engraved by Fromont in a slightly revised form in 1903, he deleted the word slave. Thus the titl...

Bach's Six Partitas form what is presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history. Bach was aware of the weightiness of his cycle as he initially had these multi-moveme...

The genesis of one of Mozart's best-loved piano works, his Fantasy in d minor, is still shrouded in darkness. Even Mozart's sister, who came across the work in 1807 through the first edition, was asto...

Edvard Grieg's only Cello Sonata remains one of the best kept secrets among cellists. Grieg wrote it for his brother John, an accomplished player of the instrument. Though not a string player himself,...

Froberger may no longer be considered the progenitor of the piano suite, but his suites for keyboard instruments have, without a doubt, had a considerable influence on the development of this genre. H...

The two Rondos op. 51 were written independently of one another and only later consolidated into a single opus by Beethoven's publisher. The first of these works from 1797 quickly became popular on ac...

Already our first volume of original piano works by Mozart's youngest son made the music world take notice. The second volume now completes the collection of works by this composer who is often undere...

Along with Robert Schumann's identically titled op. 73, the Fantasiestücke of 1864 by the Danish composer Niels Wilhelm Gade are an essential part of the repertoire of all clarinettists. Gade lived in...

Instrumental virtuosity and the new impulses of baroque thought are to be found in the solo sonatas that came into being in Italy from the early decades of the 17th century. Both aspects have been tak...

The 'little' D-major Violin Concerto has no need to hide behind its 'big sister', K. 218. Not only does it challenge the player's technique, it's a masterpiece of the first order. Henle's edition stan...

When his contemporaries heard the works that Johannes Brahms had composed during his summer holiday in Ischl in 1893 - the Piano Pieces op. 118 -, they were delighted. Clara Schumann was one of the fi...

The variation genre occupied Beethoven his whole artistic life. Collected in the second volume of G. Henle Publishers' complete edition of piano variations are compositions from his middle and later V...

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...

Chopin gave the 'scherzo' a character all of its own, and his second Scherzo is probably the best known of the four works that he composed in that genre. In contrast to the first Scherzo, which surviv...

Schubert's 22 piano sonatas sketch a very illuminating picture of the prematurely departed composer's compositional path. From the first essays of the gifted young 16- to 19-year old, one can trace a...