Intermediate Sheet Music from G. Henle Verlag

When Mendelssohn learned from his publisher Nikolaus Simrock that he was to receive an additional honorarium for a part of his 'Lieder ohne Worte', he effusively thanked him for this gift. However, th...

In 1786 Haydn was commissioned by the cathedral canon in Cádiz to write meditative music, which was to be performed alternately with readings of Christ's last words on Good Friday. Already in the spri...

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...

On the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project is coming to a close: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works for piano solo a...

The volume opens with something unusual: opus 42 is a single work, short and surprisingly easy to play; Haydn described it as 'something small and with only 3 pieces'. The Quartets op. 50, including t...

In 1849 Schumann turned to a new genre: works for piano and accompanying instrument. He showered the different wind instruments systematically with Fantasies, Romances, etc. - and always also provided...

There has been increased general interest in the Bohemian composer Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (c. 1711-1776) over the past few years, especially due to his frequently played trumpet concerto. A respe...

In 1910 the first booklet of Debussy's Préludes for piano (HN383) was published, soon followed by arrangements for various instrumentations commissioned by the original publisher. Only one Prélude, ho...

> Follows the Text in the new Brahms Complete Edition > Full chord simplified and complicated keys transposed by the composer > Replaces HN43 > Fingering: Rolf KoenenFollowing the publication of the 1...

In his letters Mozart described his early Piano Sonatas K. 270-284 as being 'difficult sonatas'. He was probably referring less to the refinements of performance and more to the demands of aesthetics...

Bach most likely composed his Toccatas in his early creative years, between 1707 and 1713; they can be seen as the products of Bach‘s own 'Sturm und Drang' period, and were not planned as an interconn...

Brahms mainly composed the eight Piano Pieces op. 76 in summer 1878 in the summer resort of Pörtschach at Lake Wörth. Theodor Billroth, a close friend, was enthusiastic about the new works: 'These are...

To mark the 150th anniversary of Debussy's birth in 2012, we are proud to present a tribute to his piano solo works in three volumes, available as a paperbound or a clothbound edition. As a publishing...

Bach most likely composed his Toccatas in his early creative years, between 1707 and 1713; they can be seen as the products of Bach‘s own 'Sturm und Drang' period, and were not planned as an interconn...

> Joint publishing venture with Editio Musica Budapest Composed in 1910/11, Bartók's Allegro barbaro is one of his best-known and most popular works for piano. The composer himself enjoyed performing...

Time and again, Chopin succeeded in giving different piano music genres their own individual characters, whether etudes, preludes, waltzes, scherzi or nocturnes. The Irishman John Field had already co...

The polonaise made its first appearances in stylized dance music in the late 16th century. With his own polonaises, Chopin also declared his allegiance to his native Poland. In a way, the genre had fa...

Time and again, Chopin succeeded in giving different piano music genres their own individual characters, whether etudes, preludes, waltzes, scherzi or nocturnes. The Irishman John Field had already co...

C minor is traditionally the key of drama, passion, pathos, and pain, which also applies here in Mozart's famous C minor sonata K. 457. He wrote it in October 1784, though what might have triggered th...

A rondo for piano solo,' noted Mozart in his personal work catalogue on 11 March 1787 - and there is little more to add about the origins of this piece, which Mozart sent off to print shortly thereaft...

Muzio Clementi was only just 16 years old when he wrote this sonata - and already a talented pianist. He had studied many of the great works written by his famous predecessors. This charming early wor...

When Günter Henle founded his Urtext publishing house in 1948, he opened his catalogue with our two-volume edition of Mozart's complete piano sonatas; these still bear the publisher's numbers HN 1 and...

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...

The e minor Cello Sonata is the first work for one solo instrument and piano which the meticulous composer also had printed. In summer 1865 Brahms offered it to the publisher Simrock as a sonata 'whos...

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...