Urtext Edition

I want to do an edition that is not a Koopman interpretation, but brings only what is really Handel.' (Ton Koopman)

Russian music researcher Polina Vajdman has gone back to all relevant sources in her editing.

The score and orchestral parts are available for purchase for the first time in a new edition of La Mer.

The much-played 'Scottish', which incidentally Mendelssohn never called so, appears in the Urtext edition in a new light.

For the 'Fidelio' overture, composed at lightning speed in 1814, a copy of the score in the Austrian National Library today provides a reliable basis for a new text-critical edition.

Schumann's 'Sinfonietta' in the Urtext The intensity with which Schumann dealt with the symphony is shown not only by the four known works themselves, but also by compositions that stand between the g...

Ravel's multi-layered homage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his homage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel turns less to Couperin himself than to French music of the 18th century. On the other hand, editor Je...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy created a standard work with his final violin concerto in E minor op. 64 MWV O 14 that is now firmly established in today's concert repertoire. When in 1838 the composer in...

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his 'Don Juan') of his reputation and above all of his 'value' as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by...

Tod und Verklärung marks a turning point in Richard Strauss's corpus of tone poems: Even before the November 1889 premiere of his previous work Don Juan, Strauss had finished his third work in this ge...

The famous Valse triste grew out of the incidental music to Arvid Järnefelts drama Kuolema (Death). After the first staged performances in December 1903 at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Si...

Indispensable repertoire work; first critical version; two versions of the ballad included in score and piano reduction Carl Reinecke was interested in exploring music and not just "snacking" on it. I...

“The Blue Danube“ is said to be Austria’s secret anthem, and alongside the “Radetzky March” it is the traditional encore piece at the annual New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Al...

Johann Strauß Sohn revolutionized the Viennese waltz in the 19th century and made it popular all over the world. His works, such as the famous waltzes "The Beautiful Blue Danube" op. 314 and "Tales fr...

Ludwig van Beethoven's overpowering shadow made many subsequent composers hesitate to venture into composing string quartets. Saint-Saëns was no exception here and wrote his two contributions to this...

Ludwig van Beethoven's overpowering shadow made many subsequent composers hesitate to venture into composing string quartets. Saint-Saëns was no exception here and wrote his two contributions to this...

When Antonín Dvorák started composing his String Quartet No. 10 in late 1878, none of his quartets had yet been performed. However this new work, deliberately cast in the 'Slavonic' style, quickly ach...

Dvorák composed his twelfth string quartet in F major op. 96, known as the "American", in just twelve days during his summer vacation in Spillville, Iowa, in June 1893. This incredibly cheerful quarte...

Mozart's most popular instrumental work, Eine kleine Nachtmusik K. 525, was previously available in the Urtext of the New Mozart Edition as a conducting score and string parts, suggesting a performanc...

Serenade for String Quartet (Quintet) or String Orchestra. Full Score, Urtext Edition.

The present volume contains those ten string quartets of Mozart which have become famous as the composer's greatest contribution to the medium and which are frequently performed in public. According t...

Urtext of the New Mozart Edition.

Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - 4 Quartets. G major K. 80, D major K. 155, G major K. 156, C major K. 157 2 violins, viola, violoncello - set of parts; Urtext edition

Urtext of the New Mozart Edition - 3 Quartets. F major K. 158, B-flat major K. 159, E-flat major K. 160. violin (2), viola, violoncello - set of parts; Urtext edition

Urtext of the New Mozart Edition