Intermediate Sheet Music from G. Henle Verlag

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...

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...

Like many other nineteenth-century musicians, Robert Schumann wanted to settle down in the musical capital of Vienna. Though these plans came to naught, his stay in Vienna in 1839 gave rise to an enti...

The 'Davidsbund' - a group of artists who had joined forces in a revolutionary struggle against the backward structures in the artistic world, amongst whose members he counted both real and imaginary...

Mazurkas, nocturnes, waltzes and polonaises constitute the core of Chopin's expressive world. However, he also moved comfortably beyond such genre cycles, and pieces of this sort are brought together...

With the three movements Pagodes, La soirée dans Grenade (An evening in Granada) und Jardins sous la pluie (Gardens in the rain) Debussy creates a poetic world of landscapes and distant lands in the c...

In 1828, the last year of his life, Franz Schubert composed three sonatas for piano which are generally described as the culmination of his lifelong occupation with the piano sonata genre. Schubert's...

'Do you not know Jean Paul, our great writer? I have learnt more counterpoint from him than from my music teacher'. His 'Vorschule der Ästhetik' with its extensive treatment of humour probably occasio...

To Diotima' - this addendum to the title was preserved until shortly before publication of the piano 'songs' and mystified Schumann's contemporaries. 'The Goddess to whom they are addressed has caused...

The pianistically demanding studies 'Waldesrauschen' and 'Gnomenreigen' were written during the composer's mature late phase, in which one does not necessarily expect such virtuosic pieces. Liszt comp...

Replaces HN36 Fingering: Andreas Boyde Johannes Brahms' late piano works in the form of the two editions HN36 (paperbound) and 37 (clothbound) have been a cornerstone of the Henle catalogue ever since...

These Drei Notturnos appeared in 1850 in two different versions: the first for high voice and piano and the second for piano solo. In the latter version the music is preceded by the song texts (no. I...

In the last years of his life, Schubert increasingly succeeded in finding publishers for his works. His Impromptus and Moments musicaux, for example, appeared in print in 1827 and 1828. Probably to pi...

My compositions are very profitable for me and I can say that I have more orders than are almost possible for me to fulfil.' Beethoven wrote the latter to a friend in 1801. He had only just completed...

Who was 'Pauline, Countess of Abegg', the dedicatee of the first edition? Nowadays it is known that the matter revolves around a romantic mystification of the name of Meta Abegg, a friend from Schuman...

Aside from the Piano Quartet op. 13 and the Violin Sonata op. 18, the Cello Sonata op. 6 numbers among the most mature works of chamber music from Strauss' early œuvre. The influences of Mendelssohn,...

Prokofiev’s late Cello Sonata is inextricably linked with the name Mstislav Rostropovich. The then twenty-year-old cellist delighted the composer to such an extent during a performance in Moscow in 19...

This volume brings together Mozart's youthful attempts at this later so central genre of the string quartet: the astonishing 'Lodi Quartet' K. 80 by the only fourteen-year-old composer, the three 'Qua...

This highly virtuosic concert piece, composed in 1863, is one of the works that Saint-Saëns wrote especially for his friend Pablo de Sarasate. The great violin virtuosos of the 19th century delighted...

Following Paganini's death, numerous musicians strove to assume his position as the 'devil's violinist', but none of them were able to do so as convincingly as the Spaniard Pablo de Sarasate. His uniq...

'More than 20 years ago I was called upon by friends, artists, and aficionados to write about fingerings for the violoncello,' then-famous Berlin cellist Jean-Louis Duport thus opens his 'Essai' from...

'Do you love Brahms?' The majority of music lovers will answer 'yes', and they might be thinking of the Waltz op. 39 no. 15 - its gently rocking melody is one of Brahms's most famous inspirations. Bot...

Possibly the most famous late Romantic piano work and now finally also available in Henle Urtext! First published in 1892 as part of the piano cycle 'Morceaux de Fantaisie' op. 3, the work also soon b...

> Additional piece in the appendix that has been printed again for the first time in 120 years > With the cooperation of the Norwegian pianist and Grieg expert Einar Steen-Noekleberg Grieg's incidenta...