Intermediate Sheet Music from G. Henle Verlag

Although people might like to think that the 'English Suites' were composed after the 'French Suites' (HN 71), 'the temperamental and in part virtuoso flow of these Suites is more characteristic of th...

Although people might like to think that the 'English Suites' were composed after the 'French Suites', 'the temperamental and in part virtuoso flow of these Suites is more characteristic of the musica...

Haydn's E-flat major Sonata is connected to no fewer than two great female musicians and musical centres: according to its autograph it was written in London in 1794 for the pianist Therese Jansen, wh...

Schubert composed his piano sonata in a minor in May 1825; it is one of Schubert's few piano works that was published during his lifetime. The four movements are expressive but each in its own way: a...

Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata op. 143 in a minor was composed in February 1823 following his large “Wanderer Fantasy”. With its formal coherence and mature originality, the a-minor Sonata initiated a...

Selections of individual numbers or scenes from large-scale stage works have always been a tried and tested means of making operas or incidental music accessible to a wider audience. Thus, even before...

It was by a roundabout route that the autograph score of Haydn's most important piano work ended up in the New York Library via a collector. Its four leaves contain a fair copy of the work; two leaves...

Beethoven's three piano sonatas op. 10 are of very dissimilar nature. Beethoven published them in 1798 and dedicated them to Countess von Browne-Camus, the wife of a Russian patron to whom he was inde...

Haydn's c minor Piano Sonata (Hob. XVI:20) has been called, by the leading Haydn scholar Lászlo Somfai, the most significant piano piece between Bach's death and Mozart's mature Viennese sonatas. Pete...

The autograph of Beethoven's Bagatellen op. 33 mentions the year 1782 in its title. The date, and the fact that Beethoven amended it, have led to a number of speculations concerning the time of its ge...

With this E-minor piano sonata, Classical-era composer Haydn created a work that displays positively romantic traits. Agitation and excitement are expressed in the main ideas of the first movement, wh...

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart did not have an easy time of it - throughout his life his compositions were always compared to those of his father. It is only recently that he has slowly begun to come int...

Haydn's piano sonatas were long disseminated solely in the form of copies; it was not until 1774 that a printed edition also appeared, containing the sonatas Hob. XVI:21-26 and dedicated to Haydn's ar...

After his 15 Hungarian peasant songs (HN1404), these Improvisations on Hungarian peasant songs are the second of Bartók's works to feature the words 'Hungarian peasant songs' in their title. The manne...

The "English Suites" number among the pinnacles of keyboard literature. They strike a magnificent tone that provides an impressive picture of the virtuosic and sumptuous harpsichord style that Bach ha...

It is said that in a recital given on 23 March 1783 with the celebrated composer Christoph Willibald Gluck most likely in attendance, Mozart improvised variations on the song 'Unser dummer Pöbel meint...

Among Joseph Haydn's extensive oeuvre is an almost inexhaustible stock of piano sonatas. With altogether over 50 works, they form a significant segment of his overall output. One of this composer's gr...

Edvard Grieg used Norwegian folk music to help him develop his own Nordic tonal language, and this often gives his music a folk-like character. His 'Peasant Dances' ('Slåtter') op. 72 for piano first...

Completed on 1 January 1885, the Piano Quartet is, alongside the Cello Sonata op. 6 and the Violin Sonata op. 18, one of the most substantial chamber music works by the young Strauss. The four-movemen...

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...

This Haydn sonata has previously not been available in the Henle catalogue as an individual Urtext edition. Nevertheless, it numbers among Haydn's famous piano works. It was written in 1789 (thus maki...

These three separately transmitted sonatas hide some attribution problems. BWV 1020 (the Sonata in g minor) is quite possibly by Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and today is mostly played on the flut...

Bach's six violin soli have come down to us in a particularly beautiful fair copy made by the composer himself. They, along with the six cello suites, are regarded as musical and technical milestones...