Urtext Edition

The new Urtext edition of Mozart's piano concertos in the co-production of the publishing houses Henle and Breitkopf is progressing. The C major Concerto K. 503 enjoyed the special esteem of the compo...

From the founding period of the clarinet concerto Louis Spohr's Clarinet Concerto No. 1 was composed in the winter of 1808/09, when the clarinet had just established itself as an orchestral and solo i...

Easily playable, simply handed down Mozart went into raptures with his father: the Comte de Guines played the flute 'incomparably', his daughter 'magnifique the harp', and so the composer apparently h...

Cuban dance from France The 'Havanaise' possibly goes back to the composer's friendship with the Cuban-born violinist Rafael Diaz Albertini. Thus it may have been natural that Saint-Saens, out of symp...

Composed under time pressure, edited in peace: K. 491 Mozart was pressed for time in the spring of 1786: there were just two weeks between the composition and first performance of the C minor Piano Co...

Johannes Brahms did not want to compete with Beethoven in the field of symphonic music for a long time. With the six-movement Serenade in D major, the young composer consciously designed a work in a g...

During his time as conductor of the Detmold court orchestra, the young Brahms was inspired by the local wind ensemble to compose two serenades. Serenade No. 2, scored for five pairs of winds, violas,...

Brahms' "Clavier-Symhonie" in the original text of the complete edition Sometimes Brahms operated understatement, when he came to speak of his 2nd piano concerto, called it a "small" concerto - but wa...

The "Gesang der Parzen" op. 89 was composed by Johannes Brahms in the summer of 1882. In his last work for choir and orchestra, he set a section from the drama "Iphigenia in Tauris" by Johann Wolfgang...

The difficult balancing act between the requirements of practical usefulness and philological meticulousness has been accomplished at a level that sets the bar for comparable efforts frighteningly hig...

The importance of the genre "overture" for Robert Schumann is shown by the creation chronology of his only opera. The composer notes "overture thoughts" as the first keyword in the household book and...

When and where was Mozart's flute concerto written and for whom? 1777 or 1778, Salzburg or Mannheim? How much did Ferdinand Dejean actually pay, only 96 or the promised 200 florins?

Urtext despite carelessly notated autograph Mozart's late Symphony in E-flat major was composed in 1788, presumably for academy concerts that did not materialize. The new edition is based on the only...

Jean-François Monnard's new Urtext edition is based for the first time on a scholarly comparison of sources. It is based on Ravel's first draft of the score and his final handwritten score.

Discover a masterpiece of Romantic concerto literature: Robert Schumann's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, WoO 1 captivates with its emotional depth, melancholic beauty, and bold harmonic...

Urtext of the 'Revolution Overture' The overture to 'Hermann and Dorothea' is Schumann's only compositional result to Goethe's verse epic. Originally he planned a whole opera, then a Singspiel, finall...

Maurice Ravel's fascinating masterpiece "La Valse – Poème Chorégraphique" unleashes an intoxicating orchestral dance between imperial elegance and dramatic ecstasy. With this benchmark Urtext full sco...

The score and orchestral parts are available for purchase for the first time in a new edition of La Mer.

Immerse yourself in the expressive world of Romanticism with the captivating Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40. This timeless masterpiece for piano and orchestra enthralls listeners with its gri...

Urtext-Neuland: Die Ouvertüre Leonore Nr. 3 To this day, the two central Fidelio overtures are performed from musical texts that date back to the inaccurate and erroneous first printings of the parts....

... without a warm feeling of love' 'Tchaikovsky urtext' is no longer a rarity in the Breitkopf orchestral catalog. Polina Vajdman edits an extremely popular repertoire work, which the composer himsel...

A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...

The cycle Seven Early Songs, based on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets, was compiled in 1928, more than twenty years after the individual songs were composed. Alban Berg selected seven of...

Dream Waltz 'À l'exemple de Schubert' - Ravel re-invents the waltz, inspired by Liszt, Chopin, Schumann and Chabrier, transforming the rhapsodic gyrations of the dance and sending it whirling into the...

Ravel's multi-layered Hommage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his Hommage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel addresses not so much Couperin himself as the French music of the 18th century. On the other hand,...