Intermediate Sheet Music from G. Henle Verlag

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 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...

In 1838 Robert Schumann complained: 'The piano is becoming too narrow for me. I often hear in my current compositions a lot of things that I can hardly indicate'. Thus, in 1840, Schumann dedicated him...

After Volumes IV and III of the series with Mozart's complete string quartets appeared as Henle Urtext editions in early 2017 and 2019 respectively, Mozart expert Wolf-Dieter Seiffert now presents Vol...

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...

Telemann's sonatas, published in 1728, are 'methodical' according to the meaning of the word in his own day, since in addition to the plain melody line given to the soloist in the first movements they...

'Methodical' was how Telemann's six sonatas were described when they were published in 1732, because they included a second, ornamented version of the simple melody line of the solo instrument for the...

The Urtext instrumental part of this edition is laid out as a combined flute and bass part (featuring the original basso continuo figures without realisation). This manner of reproduction is oriented...

Fauré's exquisite 'Fantaisie' is one of the jewels in chamber music for which we are indebted to his time at the Paris Conservatoire. The flute professor there, Paul Taffanel, had asked his colleague...

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...

The Serenade op. 41 is based on Beethoven's Opus 25 for flute, violin and viola. Although the version for piano and flute (or violin) did not originate from the composer - but was probably undertaken...

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...

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...