Urtext Edition

A rondo for piano solo,' noted Mozart in his personal work catalogue on 11 March 1787 - and there is little more to add about the origins of this piece, which Mozart sent off to print shortly thereaft...

Who does not know Johann Sebastian Bach's Chaconne, the final piece from his Partita in D minor for solo violin? Time and again, composers have been inspired to open up this exceptional work for other...

The epochal piano virtuoso Liszt made numerous transcriptions for his instrument of works by other composers - Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, a key nineteenth century work, naturally numbered amongst th...

Aside from the five great piano concertos, it is easy to forget that Beethoven had already turned to this genre in Bonn during his youth. The Concerto in Eb, written in 1784, still shows stylistic sig...

With the exception of the version of the 'Grand Fugue' for piano four hands (HN 954), this volume contains all of Beethoven's works for this scoring, to which he only rarely turned. It comprises the S...

The Scherzo op. 4 was written in 1851 - Brahms was not even 20 years old - and was a kind of calling card with which the young composer and pianist introduced himself to influential musicians. He also...

Bach's Preludes are on holiday at the Mediterranean' - the wonderful alliance of polyphonic fluency and musical delight in Domenico Scarlatti's piano sonatas could be described thus. Originally compos...

Bach's Preludes are on holiday at the Mediterranean' - the wonderful alliance of polyphonic fluency and musical delight in Domenico Scarlatti's piano sonatas could be described thus. Originally compos...

> Fingering: Rolf Koenen > Detailed critical commentary (not available in the printed editions) available free-of-charge: Download Eagerly awaited by countless pianists: a fourth Urtext volume with a...

The Spanish composer Enrique Granados left a varied and wide-ranging oeuvre, but it is above all his piano music that is still very much alive today. Our Urtext edition of the dazzlingly virtuoso Goye...

Franz Liszt arranged countless works by other composers for his instrument, preferably excerpts from stage works by his friend and son-in-law Richard Wagner. Liszt dedicated himself twice to the 'Flyi...

Revised edition replaces HN169. Fingering: Michael Schneidt All piano students are familiar with Bach's two-part Inventions - but virtuosos of the keyboard also keep coming back to these timelessly be...

Georges Bizet was not eminent as a piano composer, for the number of his piano works is small and not very substantial in terms of form, content and character. Yet there is an exception: the 'Jeux d'e...

In 1841, at the height of his mastery, Mendelssohn wrote three variation cycles for piano in quick succession. The first of them, the 'Variations sérieuses' op 54, should probably be regarded as his m...

The first book of Albéniz' four-part cycle 'Iberia' has already been published in an acclaimed Henle Urtext edition and many pianists are now eagerly awaiting the remaining ones. The second book in th...

Franz Schubert's three last piano sonatas were all composed in September 1828, two months before the composer's premature death. These are the Sonatas in C minor (D. 958), B-flat major (D. 960) and A...

It is almost impossible to tell from listening to them that Bach's extremely popular concerti for harpsichord were probably his own transcriptions of solo concerti which had originally been composed f...

Señor Albéniz may well inscribe upon his escutcheon the words 'Veni, vidi, vici'.' The London press thus commented on the Spaniard's triumphal tour of Britain between 1889 and 1893. It was in the Brit...

Carl Czerny wrote the following about Ludwig van Beethoven's 'Grande Sonate' op. 7, published in 1797: 'The epithet appassionata would fit much better to the Sonata in E flat op. 7, which he wrote in...

Roman Polanski's successful film 'The Pianist' has focused attention on the Nocturne in c sharp minor by Chopin. Our edition presents the work in two versions. One derives from the handwritten copy wh...

Muzio Clementi was only just 16 years old when he wrote this sonata - and already a talented pianist. He had studied many of the great works written by his famous predecessors. This charming early wor...

Mozart wrote all of his piano concertos for himself 'or for a small circle of amateurs and connoisseurs', which resulted in the fact that - excepting a few - they were not published during his lifetim...

The sounds made by water - those of fountains, waterfalls and streams - were a popular subject in musical impressionism. Liszt had already explored this in his 'Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este', and it...