Urtext Edition

The Mass KV 262 (246a) is known as the *Missa longa*. Leopold Mozart wrote this title on the cover of the collection—based on its opening words—that once contained the autograph scores of five of Moza...

In the last summer of his life, Franz Schubert completed the Mass in E flat D 950. The reason for the composition of this Missa solemnis cannot be clarified with certainty. Schubert did not live to se...

1815 – das war ein Jahr, in dem Schubert trotz aller erdrückenden Lehrer-Pflichten unermüdlich neue Werke schuf. Neben etwa 140 neuen Liedern entstanden die zweite und die dritte Sinfonie, vier Bühnen...

Die im Juni und Juli 1816 entstandene Messe in C (D 452) ist für die Lichtentaler Kirche geschrieben und dort wohl auch zuerst aufgeführt worden, wie aus der Dedikation an den Regens chori der Kirche,...

Anders als die vier frühen Messen hat Schubert seine fünfte nicht auf einen konkreten Auftrag, für eine bestimmte Aufführung hin geschrieben – es ging ihm offensichtlich darum, mit ihr seine inzwische...

The edition of Franz Schubert's "Magnificat" D 486 is based on the composer's autograph score and for the first time takes into account the performance material authorised by Schubert. It thus offers...

This practical edition follows the revised first volume of the "New Edition of the Complete Works of Heinrich Schütz" (BA05935-01), published in 2017, for which editor Bettina Varwig was able to draw...

This practical edition follows the revised first volume of the "New Edition of the Complete Works of Heinrich Schütz" (BA05935-01), published in 2017, for which editor Bettina Varwig was able to draw...

This practical edition follows the revised first volume of the "New Edition of the Complete Works of Heinrich Schütz" (BA05935-01), published in 2017, for which editor Bettina Varwig was able to draw...

Written in 1727 for a "speech of praise and mourning" for Electress Christiane Eberhardine in Leipzig's university church, the music of the Trauerode is known today primarily through reconstructions o...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio "Paulus" under the influence of the revival of J. S. Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" (1829), which he himself conducted. He integrated choral movements into "Paulu...

Haydn's composition is characterized by a dramatic, extremely moving emotionality that is hard to resist. The work was originally conceived as a purely instrumental composition - as meditation music i...

Experience the timeless mastery of Johann Sebastian Bach in pure perfection: "Organ Works 5 – Preludes, Toccatas, Fantasias and Fugues 1" from the renowned Bärenreiter Verlag brings together 21 magnif...

Immerse yourself in the sonic mastery of Johann Sebastian Bach with Volume 7 of the acclaimed Organ Works published by Bärenreiter. Based on the authoritative Urtext of the New Bach Edition, this coll...

The edition of Max Reger’s Complete Organ Works, divided into seven volumes, is based on the volumes of the Reger Complete Edition edited by Hans Klotz. In a comprehensive preface, Hans Haselböck comm...

The Spaniard Joaquin Turina (1882-1949) was one of the first contemporary composers who, addressed by the outstanding guitarist Andrés Segovia, wrote contemporary original works for the guitar, thus p...

Antonín Dvořák completed the five-movement "Suite in A Major," Op. 98, for piano on March 1, 1894, in New York, shortly after the overwhelming success of his Symphony No. 9, "From the New World." As h...

The Fantasia in F minor op. 103 - D 940 which was completed in April 1828, the last year of Schubert's life, was followed in May by the equally popular Allegro in A minor op. post. 144 - D 947 and in...

Schubert’s piano sonatas reflect the full scope of his unmistakable style and span a range from his early experimentation with form to the iconic final three sonatas, which the composer completed in 1...

At the end of 1821, Beethoven began work on op. 111, his last piano sonata, which has been regarded as the pinnacle since its publication and to which Thomas Mann dedicated a literary monument in Dr....

Alongside the Urtext edition of Beethoven's 35 piano sonatas which sets new standards for the 21st century, world-renowned Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar presents a Critical Commentary to this body...

Following the publication of the critically acclaimed Urtext edition in individual volumes, Bärenreiter is now presenting Beethoven’s 35 piano sonatas as a three-volume complete edition. The editor of...

… A lot of time will pass before someone fundamentally improves this musical text and the accompanying critical apparatus! (Leslie Howard). With his edition of Beethoven's piano sonatas, Jonathan Del...

Concerto for piano and orchestra. Solo part and piano reduction after the Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Piano solo, oboe (2), bassoon (2), horn (2), trumpet (2),...