Urtext Edition

With the new Breitkopf Urtext orchestral material, the 'Prague' symphony will sound somewhat different.

The premiere of 'Luonnotar' took place on September 10, 1913 at the Shire Hall in Gloucester. Luonnotar' is not only Sibelius' most important work for Ackté, it is one of his most important works ever...

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

Urtext nach der Leipziger Mendelssohn-Gesamtausgabe 28' The land of artists is Germany after all, Mendelssohn wrote in 1831 of his trip from Italy, but here 'is the land of art', and so the 22-year-ol...

Jean-François Monnard’s Urtext edition is the first edition of La Valse that compares all relevant sources. The first edition of the score, published in 1921, was used as the source. Errors and incons...

In the preface, Monnard illuminates Ravel's sound aesthetic against the background of concert reception and historical recordings. In addition, the editor offers insights into Ravel's ideas about temp...

Urtext despite carelessly notated autograph Mozart's late Symphony in E-flat major was composed in 1788, presumably for Academy concerts that did not materialize. The new edition is based on the only...

A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...

That Schumann truly dug his heels into symphonic creation becomes clear at the latest when we look not only at his four well-known symphonies, but also at the works between the genres, such as the Ove...

The question 'Why add music to such perfect poetry?' preoccupied Schumann long and intensively. His first compositional approach to Goethes 'Faust' began in 1844, but it was not until 1851 that he fin...

Schumann had already worked on Byron's Manfred as a law student, and the topic fascinated him from that time on. Perhaps he discovered a spiritual affinity to himself in the romantic hero's inner conf...

The Overture to Hermann and Dorothea is the only compositional result that Schumann reaped from Goethes epic poem. He had originally planned an entire opera, then a Singspiel, and finally an oratorio....

The piece is a masterful example of program music that seemingly casually interweaves two Russian folk songs, a liturgical melody of the Russian Orthodox Church and two national anthems, the Marseilla...

Like Hamlet Overture, originating at about the same time, Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony, composed in 1888, focuses on the human existential question: To be or not to be - triumph over fate or triumph of...

Awarded the German Music Edition Prize 2016 Composed early, orchestrated late The cycle Seven Early Songs, based on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets, was compiled in 1928, more than twenty...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen, and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all four movements en sui...

The symphonic poem Tapiola is the final major composition for orchestra that Sibelius was able to complete and publish. In January 1926 he had accepted the commission from the conductor Walter Damrosc...

Ravel needed only two weeks of intensive concentration to orchestrate his piano suite Valses nobles et sentimentales, which was given its premiere performance in March 1911. Consisting of seven waltze...

With the Symphony K. 112 Cliff Eisen, professor at the renowned King's College and one of the leading Mozart specialists of the younger generation, continues the new editions of Mozart's orchestral wo...

In the fall of 1909 Sibelius wrote in his diary: “At Koli! One of the greatest impressions in my life. Plans [for] ‘La Montagne’!” These plans proved to be for the Fourth Symphony. The composition pro...

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...

The Critical Edition – Study Score series offers a selection of scores from the Ricordi critical edition catalogue in a practical study format. Each paperback volume faithfully reproduces the complete...

The Critical Edition – Study Score series offers a selection of scores from the Ricordi critical edition catalogue in a practical study format. Each paperback volume faithfully reproduces the complete...

The Critical Edition – Study Score series offers a selection of scores from the Ricordi critical edition catalogue in a practical study format. Each paperback volume faithfully reproduces the complete...

Taschenpartitur Sopran solo, Bass solo, Orchester, Basso continuo - Studienpartitur; Urtextausgabe