Urtext Edition

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...

Sheet music for organ: 8 little preludes and fugues BWV 553-560 (authorship by J. S. Bach doubtful).

New Critical Edition by Dr Leslie Howard

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...

Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) was one of the most original personalities on the music scene of the early 20th century. His persecution and ostracism by the National Socialists led to his being forgotten...

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...

The piano reduction of Mozart's G major violin concerto is easier to play, uncluttered and practical with page turns where you need them and where necessary fold-out pages. The solo part gives players...

Neuausgabe nach den Quellen von Reinhold Kubik - Soli, Chor, Orchester.

Whoever has performed the stirring early work per la Madonna Santissima del Carmine from Handel's Italian period will probably take the motet into his/her standard repertoire. The title is reminiscent...

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,...

75 years of Henle Urtext: with this anniversary volume, G. Henle Verlag celebrates the enduring success of its Urtext editions. This album features a representative selection of 17 famous, often-playe...

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...

Bach gave his wife Anna Magdalena two handwritten books of music. The second one is of particular value with its gilt-edged, vellum-covered binding. In this little book of 1725 he noted down numerous...

When Mendelssohn learned from his publisher Nikolaus Simrock that he was to receive an additional honorarium for a part of his 'Lieder ohne Worte', he effusively thanked him for this gift. However, th...

This 'little Suite” was published in 1908 and was dedicated to the composer's then three-year old daughter: 'To my beloved little Chouchou with the tender excuses of her father for what follows below”...

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...

Liszt wrote his two Ballades in 1845-49 and 1853 during a time of personal turmoil. The successful virtuoso increasingly saw himself as a composer who strove after formal clarity, as shown by the B mi...

Fréderic Chopin's stay with George Sand on Mallorca in the winter 1838/1839 was ill-fated. Yet Chopin still managed to finish his 'Préludes” there which he had begun to compose in Paris. Today's inter...

Modest Mussorgsky composed the piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s wystawki) within a short period of time, between 2nd and 22nd June 1874. At the instigation of the art critic Vladimir...

With these three volumes Vienna Urtext Edition presents the first critical edition of Schubert's entire piano sonata output published in chrono-logical order. The musical text, newly revised from the...

The circumstances in which these poetic 'Soirée Pieces' (thus their original title) came into being are quite surprising. In 1849 Dresden was seized by violent political turmoil that ultimately forced...

Dvořák had previously written solo music for Hanus Wihan, later the dedicatee of his cello concerto. When he was planning a trio concert tour for 1892 with Wihan and violinist Ferdinand Lachner and ne...

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...