Urtext Edition

Robert Schumann's intention to create valuable and, with regard to didactics, sensibly created music for children and young people was not limited to the world-famous Album für die Jugend Op. 68 for p...

Although Robert Schumann absolutely loved to play a duet, he wrote only few works for piano duet. Created in 1848, Bilder aus dem Osten Op. 66 was one of the best-known and most frequently played work...

The 1725 Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach is chiefly famous for pieces such as the two minuets in G major and G minor (Nos. 4 and 5 in the present collection) and the Aria di Giovannini. These three, i...

The 'Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen vors Clavicimbal' was given its common title 'Goldberg Variations' by Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who in turn relied on reports from Bach's elder sons, because it...

The Kinderszenen, composed in the spring of 1838, are among the best-known and most popular works in piano literature. No. 7 in particular, the Träumerei, began an unprecedented triumphal march throug...

These 51 exercises 'for the Pianoforte' were published in 1893 by Brahms. Ever since they have been regarded as key exercises, custom made for developing the smooth pianistic technique that is an esse...

In 1826, 15-year-old Franz Liszt wrote his first cycle of studies which he actually wanted to be seen as a grand étude consisting of 12 different exercises, as an 'Etude en douze exercices'. Each of t...

Following the publication of the Moonlight Sonata and the Grande Sonate pathétique, we now present a new edition of the two Easy Sonatas Op. 49 by Ludwig van Beethoven. The score has been prepared usi...

The genesis of Chopin's Polonaise brillante Op. 22 leads back to his youth in Warsaw and the years of his first trips as a virtuoso. Designed as a concert piece with orchestra, it takes up a special p...

Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos is one of the key works of 20th-century piano music. The repertoire comprises educational pieces 'from the very first beginning' as well as concert literature, thus making th...

These two sonatas in C major (KV 545) and A major (KV 331) are among the most popular of all Mozart's piano sonatas. KV 545 is a firm favourite with piano teachers and their pupils (for many pianists...

The 7th volume of the Urtext Primo Series features the works only of female composers. In line with the level of difficulty of the Urtext Primo Series (Grades 3-6), the range of composers has been exp...

In spring 2002 the double bass will make its première appearance in the Henle urtext catalogue as a solo instrument. The Hoffmeister Double Bass Concerto will be joined by the 'Elephant,' Camille Sain...

Good intentions are simply not good enough (to freely paraphrase Kurt Tucholsky): the arpeggione, a kind of hybrid instrument like a large bowed guitar, never won acceptance among musicians. This curi...

The core repertoire of low string instruments would not be the same without Johann Sebastian Bach's three gamba sonatas, which hark back to other works by him that were originally scored for different...

For this edition, all known sources were evaluated, and thus an Urtext edition of this concerto is now available, including a preface and notes section, in which the complex source situation is explai...

A pearl in the romantic repertoire for viola and orchestra! Bruch's 'Romance' has long occupied a permanent place in the viola repertoire, whether in lessons or on the concert stage. Our edition is th...

Urtext edition with articulation markings - Soft-cover performing edition When you think cello, you think of Bach's immortal cello suites. The suites take centre stage in the cello literature. They ar...

The six solo suites for violoncello are probably among the most important and most frequently performed compositions for a solo string instrument. They demand a high degree of virtuosity from the cell...

Ausgabe für Viola da Gamba (Violoncello) und Cembalo. Mit Einzelstimmen für Viola da Gamba und Violoncello. Herausgegeben von Laurence Dreyfus

It is well known that Chopin almost exclusively wrote works for solo piano. Only for the cello did he make some exceptions: two works - a Polonaise brillante and the Duo Concertant (HN 788) were writt...

It was only with his late works that Debussy, an unconventional innovator, turned back to tradition. In 1915 he had six sonatas for various instruments in mind. He was only to complete three of them b...

The most important source for Bach's Cello Suites is a copy made by his wife Anna Magdalena because the autograph is no longer extant. As further copies show, the actual musical text is scarcely probl...

Ysaye's Cello Sonata, unlike its companion piece for violin solo, has remained relatively unknown. All the same, it merits special attention as it was written at the same time as the Violin Sonatas an...

Originally, Lalo was meant to follow an officer's career but his musical talent soon became apparent and so he decided to become a musician. Every cellist is familiar with his Cello Concerto in d mino...