Urtext Edition

With his parodistic piano pieces about all kinds of sea creatures - with the grotesque title "Dried-up Embryos" - composed in the summer of 1913, Satie once again poked fun at himself and the musical...

With his advanced incidental music from 1891/92, Satie explicitly turned against the French "Wagnérisme", but not in the sense of a parody. Composed on commission from the Rosicrucian and convinced Wa...

Debussy does not link his "12 Préludes" of the first volume by a tonal scheme, but by a chain of associative mottos or titles which he leaves at the end of each piece and which may give an indication...

Three years after the publication of the first volume, the second volume of Debussy's Préludes appeared in 1913, reflecting the impression of Stravinsky's music. In his new Urtext edition, musicologis...

It was unmistakably Liszt's piano work "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" that inspired Ravel to write one of his most famous works in 1901. The piece is formally conceived as a sonata form, dominated...

Ravel's cycle of "Valses nobles et sentimentales" caused irritation at the anonymous premiere in 1911 at the Société nationale indépendante in Paris: many suspected Satie or even Kodály as the compose...

Beethoven had promised his Horn Sonata op. 17 to one of the most famous horn players of his time, Johann Wenzel. Although, according to an anecdote from his pupil, he only composed the sonata on the d...

Piano music is of central importance in Fauré's oeuvre. He dedicated his "Ballade", composed in 1879, to his teacher Camille Saint-Saëns. It breaks with the epic form of the genre both through its lyr...

Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' remain a fundamental challenge for every harpsichordist and pianist to this day. The fact that Bach intended the work to be performed on a two-manual harpsichord poses a p...

Beethoven's Sonata in C minor, his first great sonata and exemplary for the type of characteristic sonata of the late 18th century, has lost none of its fascination to this day due to its passionate p...

The Sonata in F minor op. 57 (1804/05) was not given the nickname "Appassionata" until 1838, long after Beethoven's death. Jonathan Del Mar now offers an Urtext edition whose principles are revealed i...

With the two sonatas of his Opus 27, Beethoven broke new formal ground at the beginning of the 19th century. Each named Sonata quasi una Fantasia, the second in particular became immortal under its la...

Beethoven's last three piano sonatas have always exerted a great fascination. With the Sonata op. 109, composed in 1820, Beethoven opens the door to the future - through the highest expressivity, the...

The two sonatas op. 14, written in the immediate vicinity of the "Pathétique", Beethoven's great C minor sonata op. 13 (BA 10851), are among the composer's easiest sonatas and are an indispensable par...

Composed in 1803/04, Beethoven's Sonata in C major op. 53 marks his move towards a large-scale, symphonic piano movement. The highly virtuosic work, which Beethoven dedicated to his friend and patron...

The three popular sonatas op. 10 were composed between the end of 1795 and the beginning of 1798, only a short time after Beethoven's first complete sonata oeuvre op. 2. They were heralded in the pres...

There is hardly a piano pupil who would not have played Beethoven's two sonatas op. 49, both of which are described as "Sonate facile", in his early years. The works are not only technically easy, but...

The much-performed sonatas op. 2 nos. 1, 2 and 3 were written at the time when the young composer was taking lessons from Joseph Haydn in Vienna and are dedicated to him. After the three youthful sona...

This new edition replaces the existing edition (BA 5634). Schubert's Sonata in B flat major was composed in 1828 and is probably the last instrumental work he ever completed. The Urtext edition, edite...

Schubert composed his great A major Sonata a few months before his early death in 1828. With its balance of lyrical melody, intimate feeling and pianistic brilliance, not least thanks to its poetic "A...

As early evidence of Schubert's preoccupation with early music, his Fantasy in C D 2 E from 1811 contains echoes of Mozart's C minor Fantasy, while the virtuoso Graz Fantasy in C D 605 A, probably com...

Schumann's Arabeske and Blumenstück were composed during his stay in Vienna from October 1838 to April 1839 in the context of weightier piano works such as the C major Fantasy op. 17, the Humoreske op...

Schubert's great C minor Sonata D 958 was composed in 1828, a few months before his death, at the same time as the late sonatas in A D 959 and in B flat D 960. The three works, conceived by Schubert a...

There has been much debate about the significance of Liszt's late piano pieces. On the one hand, they are regarded as harbingers of the ageing Liszt's fading inspiration; on the other, they are praise...

Beethoven composed the works known as the "Elector Sonatas" in 1783 as a pupil of Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. "He would certainly become a second Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart if he progressed as he ha...