Urtext Edition

Good intentions are simply not good enough (to freely paraphrase Kurt Tucholsky): the arpeggione, a kind of hybrid instrument like a large bowed guitar, never won acceptance among musicians. This curi...

Variations on a well-liked theme, mainly from contemporary operas, were extremely popular at the end of the 18th century. Even the young Beethoven made several contributions to this genre. We do not k...

All cellists are familiar with Debussy's sonata, which he only composed in 1915, three years before his death. Debussy had, however, already written two works for violoncello and piano in 1882, when h...

Max Reger created his three suites for violoncello solo in 1914/15 for three important cellists and pedagogues of his time: Julius Klengel, Hugo Becker and Paul Grümmer. He also had a personal friends...

Piatti's Twelve Caprices, op. 25, are the daily bread of all advanced players of the cello: Sir Yehudi Menuhin mentioned them in the same breath with the Bach Suites. Now Henle is presenting the very...

Like his father, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote three sonatas for viola da gamba. They were written during his time at the Berlin court of Frederick the Great and gave the excellent viola da gamba pl...

The stimulus for this work, composed in 1924, was given by the French flautist Louis Fleury, who also gave the first performance of the work. The four single pieces 'Pan', 'Tityre', 'Krishna' and 'Mon...

Bach had a predilection for creating solo works for instruments that were more usually supplied with a keyboard accompaniment. It is thus only logical that, as well as the violin and cello, he also th...

For whom did Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach write his solo sonata? Time and again, the Prussian King Frederick II has been brought into play as the sonata's addressee. Bach, however, would not have made mu...

This much-beloved flute piece is probably an alternative slow movement for Mozart's Flute Concerto in G major, and in its version with piano accompaniment it is indispensable to today's flute teaching...

Beyond doubt is Giuseppe Sammartini's fame as an oboist; as a composer, however, he always came second after his younger brother Giovanni Battista. Both were born in Milan as sons to the French oboist...

They are very easy to perform and pleasing, as I think, Johannes Brahms wrote to Breitkopf & Härtel in August 1860 to make the work palatable to the publisher. He had already sent his Hamburg women's...

Schuberts Vertonung des 23. Psalms 'Gott ist mein Hirt' D 706 war ursprünglich für ein Quartett von Frauenstimmen vorgesehen, wurde jedoch schon im 19. Jahrhundert regelmäßig von Frauenchören aufgefüh...

Die Ausgabe Zur Opéra-comique "Carmen" entstanden insgesamt zehn Fassungen, von Georges Bizets erster Niederschrift 1874 bis zum Erstdruck der Partitur 1877. Im Zuge jahrelanger Grundlagenforschung er...

Urtext der Neuen Schein-Ausgabe. Gemischter Chor-SSATB, Basso continuo - Partitur Leinen; Sammelband; Gesamtausgabe

Mit den sechs- und siebenstimmigen Motetten liegt die revidierte Fassung der 'Geistlichen Chor-Music' nun komplett vor. Alle Stimmen der Motetten können, wie Schütz in seinem Vorwort zur Sammlung besc...

The Four Quartets op. 92 were composed in 1884 during Brahms’ summer’s stay in Mürzzuschlag (Styria). The opening piece, however, was a revision of an earlier vocal quartet composed in 1877. Brahms ha...

The well-known Liebeslieder op. 52, originally for piano four hands and voices ad libitum, appear here for the first time as a modern Urtext edition in a hitherto little-known form for voices and pian...

Breitkopf Urtext nach der Brahms-Gesamtausgabe der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien.

Die Urtext-Ausgabe der 'Lobgesang'-Symphonie berücksichtigt erstmals Stimmenmaterial, das für die ersten Aufführungen in Leipzig erstellt wurde und zur Klärung etlicher unterschiedlicher Lesarten beit...

Die Sämtlichen Choralsätze sind als Urtext-Ausgabe aller vierstimmigen Choräle von Johann Sebastian Bach der neue Standard in der Edition dieser Werkgattung. Der Musikwissenschaftler Thomas Daniel, ei...

In 1892 Dvorák received a prestigious commission from New York to write a festive cantata to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbuss discovery of America. In response he wrote an im...

The ambitious late work of Georg Philipp Telemann, consciously dedicated to vocal composition, begins with the Donner-Ode (1756/1760). As a symbol thunder represents the forces of nature, here in clos...

Georg Philipp Telemann has long been perceived as a composer of sacred music, and particularly of the German-language church cantata. However, in the course of his long life he also composed church wo...

Die "Drei Chöre" (The Three Choirs) op. 6 are hardly mentioned in the young Reger's correspondence. The only meaningful reference is Reger's announcement to his London publisher George Augener on Augu...