Intermediate Sheet Music from G. Henle Verlag

In the fall of 2024, the Morgan Library in New York reported a sensation: its curator Robinson McClellan had discovered a postcard-sized manuscript of a waltz in A minor with the heading "Chopin" in a...

Over 50 internationally celebrated pianists were invited to adopt one Haydn piano sonata each and provide it with their personal fingerings - a 'who's who' on the contemporary piano scene. G. Henle Pu...

This selection of five 'easy' sonatas offers advanced students of piano and aficionados the perfect entry point into the singular world of this great composer's piano sonatas. Arranged in increasing l...

This last of the surviving C major sonatas was written during Haydn's second London sojourn in 1794/95 for the pianist Terese Jansen, Mrs Bartolozzi. It seems to have been a very personal expression o...

Johannes Brahms twice chose a theme by his friend and mentor Robert Schumann as the basis for piano variations. While the Variations op. 9 were composed for piano solo, as an exception he wrote Opus 2...

Schubert at the piano, with his inexhaustible wealth of dance melodies, his friends around him dancing and playing jokes - this is one of the traditional images of Schubert that we so cherish. The ter...

The high opus number suggests that it is a late work, yet in reality the work comprises twenty single movements which were composed 10 to 15 years before publication. This means that they were written...

The serenade flourished in Mozart’s era, but with Brahms the genre experienced a new surge in popularity in the 19th century. Dvořák’s cheerful and relaxed op. 22 came into being in 1875, during a ver...

There is no other chamber-music genre for which Mozart produced so many works - see the sonatas and variations - than that of the duos for piano and violin. He spent a considerable amount of time with...

Written in 1885, the eight songs after texts by the now little-known poet Hermann von Gilm have a special place in Richard Strauss' corpus of Lieder. For the first time, he composed an entire set of s...

Hans von Bülow described Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas as 'Music's New Testament'. Since its first appearance, Henle's complete two-volume edition (HN 32 and HN 34) has been valued by specialists as th...

Hans von Bülow described Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas as 'Music's New Testament'. Since its first appearance, Henle's complete two-volume edition (HN 32 and HN 34) has been valued by specialists as th...

This 'Lament, or the maiden and the nightingale' is the fourth movement of Granados' six-part piano cycle Goyescas (1909-11). The cycle's title is derived from the name of the Spanish painter Francisc...

It is, aside from two passages, one of Beethoven's easiest; but as far as the performance of individual passages and its whole spirit is concerned, requires every kind of care', thus wrote a contempor...

Beethoven's Piano Sonata no. 7 in D major is the third from his Opus 10, which appeared in 1798, and simultaneously the heavyweight of this group of works. As one of the most powerful sonatas from the...

Sergei Rachmaninov's second book of Préludes, op. 32, was written in the summer of 1910 at his family's idyllic country house in Ivanovka. This sleepy, rural area inspired the composer to this wonderf...

The composition '1.X.1905,' generally referred to as a 'sonata,' stems from the autumn of 1905, the peak of the riots between the Czech- and German-speaking populations in Janáček's hometown Brno. Rea...

The d-minor Chaconne is undoubtedly the most famous movement of all of Bach's 6 Sonatas and Partitas for violin solo. So it is hardly surprising that it has seen many arrangements. Johannes Brahms mar...

Robert Schumann's 'Frühlingsnacht' ('Spring night') was one of his most popular songs even in the 19th century. Franz Liszt made a piano arrangement of it that in the space of under 70 measures emerge...

Beethoven's three Piano sonatas op. 2 were the first works in this genre to which he gave an opus number, thus signalling to the music world the special importance that he assigned to them. He wrote t...

Piano music occupies a small, but nevertheless musically important place in Janácek's oeuvre. Our edition of 'In the Mists' by the seasoned Janácek editor Jirí Zahrádka is an impressive example of thi...

In 1735 Johann Sebastian Bach published his French Overture BWV 831 together with the famous Italian Concerto as the second part of his 'Clavier-Übung'. The designation Ouvertüre (Overture) can be som...

The fantasy played a relatively small role in the piano music of Viennese Classicism. Beethoven's sole contribution is perfectly suited to its genre designation in that the work, written in 1809, prov...

At first glance, this spirited work does not seem to fit the picture that Beethoven's contemporaries have passed down to us; this is why the work was long looked upon deprecatingly as a 'salon piece'....