Urtext Edition

The world-famous pianist András Schiff, a most familiar name to Bach fans on account of his complete recordings of Bach's piano works, has provided fingerings for both parts of the Well-Tempered Clavi...

Bach's Six Partitas form what is presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history. Bach was aware of the weightiness of his cycle as he initially had these multi-moveme...

When Günter Henle founded his Urtext publishing house in 1948, the first work in the catalogue was the two volume edition of all of Mozart's piano sonatas. Even today they still bear our numbers HN 1...

Combining these two Schumann bestsellers seemed very natural: both of the titles not only reflect their inner association but the technical demands on the pianist are for once not so great (see the le...

Revised edition replaces HN 64. Fingering: Michael Schneidt Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias are rightly considered as indispensable to every pianist. In his famous preface to the collection, Bach hims...

As well as Tchaikovsky's famous Piano Concerto, his extensive oeuvre for solo piano also makes an important contribution to romantic piano music. It includes 'The Seasons' op. 37 - pleasant playable p...

Liszt's 'Transcendental Studies' of 1852 are without doubt among the triumphs of virtuoso piano music, and their visionary language and poetic expression make them a milestone of the romantic age. Thi...

Grieg's celebrated Piano Concerto turns out to be an editor's nightmare. Even during the composer's lifetime the work was so famous that it had to be reprinted over and over again, each time with revi...

With the new Urtext Primo series, Wiener Urtext Edition intends to bridge the gap between studying a piano method and taking additional lessons. Beginning with a performance level which is outlined by...

Along with the Stamitz concerto, Hoffmeister's Viola Concerto is the most important audition piece for viola players. Yet, it has been handed down in a complicated source tradition, surviving in a sin...

The four Bach flute sonatas presented in this volume offer a genuine variety both in style and transmission. The first two are thoroughbass sonatas conceived for flute, string bass and harpsichord. Th...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

The "Eight Short Preludes and Fugues" BWV 553–560 are among the most beloved and enduring works in the entire organ repertoire. Although modern musicology considers Johann Sebastian Bach's direct auth...

Immerse yourself in the deeply romantic and poetic soundscapes of Franz Liszt. Featuring the celebrated "Consolations" and the unforgettable "Liebesträume" (Nocturnes), this high-quality Urtext editio...

These piano studies, fully worked out in summer 1848, but presumably sketched earlier, were published in the German original edition at the beginning of 1849 simply with the numbering 1-3. In the fir...

The three sonatas for Viola da gamba and Harpsichord obbligato by Johann Sebastian Bach BWV 1027-1029 edited here both in the original version with viola da gamba and in a version with viola have been...

It is now possible to add the epithet'previously' to the formulation of these sonatas as 'attributed to Bach' in the title of our Urtext edition; today it is assumed that none of the three sonatas was...

BA 5103-90 replaces the previous vocal score. The article number remains unchanged. > The text appears in slightly larger type size and a clearly legible font. > The pagination has been adopted from t...

First version. Piano reduction based on the Urtext of the New Bach Edition. Soprano solo (2), alto solo, tenor solo, bass solo, mixed choir-SSATB, trumpet (3), oboe (2), recorder (2), timpani, violin...

No other work by Mozart is so enshrouded in myth as his final composition, the D-minor Requiem. Mozart died before its completion, and the missing sections had to be added by others. The many handwrit...

Antonín Dvořák's Stabat Mater, Op. 58 is among the most moving and profound masterpieces of Romantic sacred music. With incomparable emotional depth and melodic beauty, the work sets the sorrow of the...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 is one of the most radiant masterpieces of sacred choral music, enchanting singers and audiences alike for centuries. From the triumphant opening jub...

Immerse yourself in the enchanting musical world of Robert Schumann: This high-quality Urtext edition from the renowned Edition Peters combines two of the most cherished cycles in Romantic piano liter...

There are probably very few piano students who have not tried their hand at this piece; it is undeniably one of the most popular classical piano pieces today. And yet unanswered questions still remain...

In a span of only eight years, between 1794-1802, Beethoven composed twenty piano sonatas, among them his so-called 'Grande Sonate Pathétique' op. 13. It marks the consummation of his Classical style,...