Intermediate Sheet Music from G. Henle Verlag

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...

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...

The flute part was edited by one of the most renowned flutists of our time: András Adorján. The cadenzas and entrances are by the Mozart connoisseur, musicologist and pianist Robert D. Levin. The prop...

In his autograph of this concerto Vivaldi writes 'Flautino' - which does not make it quite clear whether the work is to be played on the f-soprano (sopranino) recorder or on the piccolo transverse flu...

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...

Variation form occupied Beethoven throughout his composing career. This first volume of G. Henle Publishers' two-volume edition of all his piano variations includes works from Beethoven's time in Bonn...

One of Scriabin’s best-known piano pieces is also one of his very first compositions. He wrote it when he was only fifteen years old; when it appeared in print in 1893, the twenty-one-year-old was sti...

Only very few piano works have become as popular as this theme with twelve variations. It already caught on soon after Mozart's death, as witnessed by the numerous handwritten copies and prints. Altho...

Schumann's turbulent love-affair with the barely eighteen-year-old Ernestine von Fricken, though strong enough to lead to a secret engagement, lasted only a few months. Nevertheless, it managed to giv...

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...

Eighteen piano sonatas survive from Mozart's pen, composed during his mature years between 1775 and 1789. They are usually grouped according to their first editions: (1) six sonatas K. 279-284 (2) thr...

George Frideric Handel's powerful musical personality reveals itself not only in the large forms of opera, oratorio, and orchestral suite, but also in his compositions for keyboard. The focus here is...

Domenico Scarlatti is today considered one of music history's great piano composers, and the first-ever piano virtuoso. The present collection contains 24 sonatas from various creative periods, offeri...

In 1884 Grieg composed a suite in Baroque style on the occasion of the 200th birthday of the poet Ludvig Holberg, who was very well-known in Norway. Taking inspiration from Holberg's time there are da...

This volume gathers together, in chronological order, a selection of solo piano pieces that Schubert, to be sure, created as 'shorter' occasional works but which form an important part of his complete...

These six little piano pieces are among Liszt's best-known works and are comparatively easy to play - a rarity amongst the composer's often eccentric and virtuosic works. In 1844 Liszt had already beg...

In early 1878, Peter Tchaikovsky had just sent his opera 'Eugene Onegin' and his Fourth Symphony on their way, but had no intention of taking a creative break. On the contrary, he immediately took up...