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For more than 200 years Mozart's piano sonatas have been part of every pianist's repertoire. Research done over the last few decades has made it possible, however, to establish more accurate dating an...

At first glance, this work maybe eclipsed by the earlier Sonata in B major, KV 333 but Mozart's Sonata KV 570 is by the far the more popular work, especially in piano lessons. This maybe due to its mo...

With the new Urtext Primo series, the Wiener Urtext Edition wants to close the gap arising at the point of transition to additional lessons after having studied a piano method. Beginning with a perfor...

With works by Clementi, Czerny and Cramer, Urtext Primo 6 contains easy piano music by three composers who all stood out as piano teachers publishing piano methods and study literature. Not only is th...

If you can finally play the Prelude from Bach's Suite I for Violoncello Solo in G major, you have made it: you have entered the world of great cello literature and at the same time, you have found a c...

Edvard Grieg's only Cello Sonata remains one of the best kept secrets among cellists. Grieg wrote it for his brother John, an accomplished player of the instrument. Though not a string player himself,...

A few years ago we published the 'Elephant' from the 'Carnival of the Animals'. The curtain now rises for a further performance: the proud and elevated solo of the 'Swan'. Charles-Joseph Lebouc organi...

The Fantasias for flute without bass address themselves less to the virtuoso than to the amateur flutist, who will find everything he wishes in these pieces. Although Telemann himself may have lost tr...

Kanzonetten für 3 Singstimmen (italienisch) und Bassetthörner. Urtext der Neuen Mozart-Ausgabe. Sopran, Sopran, Bass (Chorstimme), BassHn/ Klarinette in b 1, BassHn/ Klarinette in b 2, BassHn 3 - Part...

Mozart composed his two 'Lodron Serenades' for open-air performances on the name day of Countess Antonia Lodron in June 1776 and 1777. Their bright 'al fresco' character is immediately recognisable. A...

With his clarinet quintet, begun in 1915, Reger was remembering his role models Mozart and Brahms, whose works in this genre he particularly admired. This melancholic quintet that is worked through in...

Louis Spohr’s Fantasia op. 35 from 1807 comprises one of the standard works for solo harp repertoire today. It was composed in Gotha, where Spohr’s wife Dorette received harp lessons from the court ch...

In the 1910s, a romantic infatuation for the harpist Eleonora Damskaja moved the young Sergei Prokofiev to compose three short pieces for harp and dedicate them to her. Two of these compositions later...

Experience the stirring passion of Italian opera in an extraordinary chamber music setting: the "Duet on Verdi's Nabucco op. 20" brings harp and piano together in a captivating musical dialogue brimmi...

In a letter to Erwin Schulhoff, Berg bitterly complained about his unsuccessful attempt to find a publisher for his 'Pieces for Clarinet', 'Once again at my own expense! A few antique pieces in my apa...

Joseph Haydn's Concerto in D major Hob. VIIb:2 stands as one of the undisputed crowning achievements of the classical cello repertoire. With its consummate melodic elegance, brilliant virtuosity, and...

With the 'Kullervo' premiere in 1892, Jean Sibelius, already at the age of 27, announced his claim as a symphonist far ahead of the purely instrumental symphonies and tone poems. Urtext according to t...

Discover the masterful intimacy and tonal finesse of chamber music at its finest: "Complete String Trios for Violin, Viola, and Cello" from the renowned Bärenreiter Verlag offers ensembles an indispen...

Beethoven completed his String Quartet op. 135 at Wasserdorf Castle in Gneixenhof, where he sought to recuperate with his nephew Karl after the latter's failed suicide attempt in summer 1826. It stand...

Immerse yourself in the deeply romantic and intimate sound world of Antonín Dvořák's "Cypresses", B 152. Originally conceived as a song cycle inspired by youthful infatuation, Dvořák masterfully arran...

More than a few experts and aficionados count Mozart's string trio in E-flat major K. 563 among his most magnificent compositions. This masterwork, entered into Mozart's own catalogue of works on 27 S...

Im vorliegenden Konzert in C-Dur wird der Solist von einem reinen Streichorchester begleitet, eine Besetzung, die auch von Amateurensembles leicht zu realisieren ist. In Fortsetzung der Zusammenarbeit...

Debussy wrote these two short dances to a commission from the instrument-making firm of Pleyel, which was keen to use famous names in the marketing of its newly-developed chromatic harp. The dances ar...

Caprices for solo violin have a long tradition; the list of collections in which virtuoso violinist-composers archived testimonies of their virtuoso violin art ranges from Locatelli to Paganini, from...