Urtext Edition

Composed in Vienna in 1838 along with several other shorter pieces, Schumann's Arabesque has found a permanent place in the general piano repertoire. It may owe its lightness and grace to Schumann's u...

The stories surrounding Frédéric Chopin's winter holiday on Mallorca with George Sand in 1838/39 are widely known. It was there, in adverse conditions, that Chopin completed his 'Préludes' op. 28 whic...

Some of Gershwin's finest inspirations have not as yet been either published or publicly performed. It is probable that the production of his twenty-four preludes … will award him a still higher rank...

Gershwin's Concerto was premiered on December 3, 1925, in Carnegie Hall - the epicentre of New York's classical music scene. It belongs to a group of self-imposed 'experiments' with which the composte...

Who was 'Pauline, Countess of Abegg', the dedicatee of the first edition? Nowadays it is known that the matter revolves around a romantic mystification of the name of Meta Abegg, a friend from Schuman...

Frédéric Chopin's 4 Scherzi are high points in the Romantic piano repertoire. Chopin here takes a traditional genre and fills it with radically new content. They are wild, demonic in tone, and there i...

With humor, 'slow and tender, 'extremely brisk': the very expression marks of the op. 12 'Fantasy Pieces' illuminate their musical universe, a kaleidoscope of ideas and moods. Our revised new edition...

With the publication of the second volume, all of the 'Slavonic Dances' are now available in Urtext. Following the resounding success of the first series op. 46, which immediately made the composer fa...

Mozart is one of the pioneers of works for piano four-hands; he was undoubtedly encouraged to do so through his music-making on the harpsichord with his sister, as depicted in the famous family portra...

No other great composer left so many works for piano duet as Franz Schubert: altogether 54 (32 of which have an opus number) including fantasias, dances, marches, variations, rondos, sonatas, etc. Amo...

No other great composer left so many works for piano duet as Franz Schubert: altogether 54 (32 of which have an opus number) including fantasias, dances, marches, variations, rondos, sonatas, etc. Amo...

Frédéric Chopin's 24 Préludes, Op. 28 represent one of the most mesmerizing milestones in Romantic piano literature. In breathtaking brevity, each of these 24 distinct musical gems unfolds its own dee...

Apart from various insignificant emendations relating to accidentals and ornamentation, this 1997 revision of Bach's Welltempered Clavier contains a remarkable correction in the musical text of the B...

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 four-movement suite, composed in 1890, is characteristic of Debussy's creative period, in which he mixed modern and ancient elements. The term bergamasque, which originally referred to a Renaissan...

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 polonaises are regarded as one of the most important genres in the compositional oeuvre of Frédéric Chopin, some of them even as some of his most popular compositions. Their spectrum ranges from e...

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...

Alongside the Impromptus, the Moments musicaux are among Franz Schubert's best-known and most popular piano compositions. The Wiener Urtext Edition now presents a new edition based on the latest resea...

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...