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Edvard Grieg used Norwegian folk music to help him develop his own Nordic tonal language, and this often gives his music a folk-like character. His 'Peasant Dances' ('Slåtter') op. 72 for piano first...

From the late 1760s onwards Mozart repeatedly composed series of dance movements for orchestra. Demand for this occasional music, which really was intended for dancing, increased in the winter months,...

Handel and fugues? The connection is not the first thing to cross our minds when we think of baroque keyboard music. Yet Handel, besides writing keyboard fugues as parts of larger works, also turned o...

None other than András Schiff is collaborating with Henle Publishers for the edition of Mozart's piano concertos. His piano reductions are aimed at amateurs rather than professionals; his fingerings f...

Though the autograph has disappeared, this posthumously published waltz is a jewel of Chopin's art, effectively combining dramatic passages with outpourings of lyricism. Despite its virtuoso brillianc...

Obermann', the epistolary novel by the French Romantic Senancour, inspired Liszt to write the first volume in his collection 'Années de Pèlerinage' (HN 173). A wanderer is searching for his ideals in...

Schumann kept coming back to variation form. He often wrote his own variations in contrast to those on popular (operatic) themes, with which piano virtuosi of the time flooded the market. The 'Impromp...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

The only surviving original recording of Albéniz' piano playing is from 1903. On a visit to Ruperto Regordosa Planas he had sat down at the former's piano and improvised three short pieces. Planas rec...

In his late work Beethoven devoted himself intensively to the forms of baroque polyphony. He originally composed the 'Große Fuge' as the final movement of the String Quartet in Bb major op. 130. Howev...

This volume of the piano solo music of Claude Debussy includes many of his more well-known works: Clair de Lune * Arabesques 1 and 2 * La Soiree Dans Grenade * Jardins Sous La Pluie * Reflets Dans L'E...

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Dieser Neuausgabe der B-Dur-Sonate für Klavier zu vier Händen von Franz Danzi liegt eines von sechs (laut RISM) noch existierenden Exemplaren der Erstausgabe zugrunde, welches in der Musik- und Handsc...