Urtext Edition

Although not performed during his lifetime, Rameau’s “Les Boréades” from 1762 are his musical masterpiece and a synthesis of his compositional work. All the musical innovations to which the composer s...

By the time Le trouvère premiered at the Paris Opéra in 1857, Giuseppe Verdi had first-hand knowledge of the unique demands of French theater. He had adapted his earlier work I Lombardi alla prima cro...

When Carl Maria von Weber composed the overtura to "Der Freischütz" in May 1820, it was the final musical building block for his opera. In this respect, Weber was able to perfectly trace and condense...

Experience Heinrich Schütz's masterly "St. Matthew Passion" SWV 479 in an authoritative Urtext edition published by the renowned Bärenreiter Verlag. This deeply moving late masterpiece of sacred vocal...

> All extant sources consulted > Edition for the first centenary of Reger's death > Cross-section of Reger's music for a cappella choir > Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) 2016 marks th...

Johann Kuhnaus überliefertes Vokalwerk wird den Katalog von Breitkopf & Härtel in den kommenden Jahren vollständig ergänzen. In der Regel sprechen wir dabei con Kantaten, zumindest jedoch von Werken m...

The hymn from the tone poem Finlandia op. 26 for orchestra, one of the best-known works of Jean Sibelius, became the unofficial national anthem of Finland with the text of Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (1...

Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of Baroque opera with the "Album of Arias from Handel's Operas: Female Roles" for high voice. This first-class Urtext edition from the renowned Bärenreiter Ve...

This edition contains French operatic arias for soprano from the works which opera reformer Christoph Willibald Gluck composed on commission for the Paris Opera. These include: – Iphigénie en Aulide –...

Dieser Klavierauszug der Konzert- und Einlagearien Mozarts beruht auf dem Notentext der 'Neuen Mozart-Ausgabe' (NMA). Im Unterschied zur NMA ist der Notentext selbst frei von aufführungspraktischen Hi...

Dieser Klavierauszug der Konzert- und Einlagearien Mozarts beruht auf dem Notentext der 'Neuen Mozart-Ausgabe' (NMA). Im Unterschied zur NMA ist der Notentext selbst frei von aufführungspraktischen Hi...

Dieser Klavierauszug der Konzert- und Einlagearien Mozarts beruht auf dem Notentext der 'Neuen Mozart-Ausgabe' (NMA). Im Unterschied zur NMA ist der Notentext selbst frei von aufführungspraktischen Hi...

The vocal works collected in this volume were composed for very different occasions. Several of them were tailor-made for female singers of Beethoven's acquaintance; with others he was trying his hand...

This collection of etudes by the virtuoso Sebastian Lee was used as a standard work for cello lessons at the Paris Conservatoire back in the 19th century. For thorough technical training and education...

This collection of etudes by the virtuoso Sebastian Lee was used as a standard work for cello lessons at the Paris Conservatoire back in the 19th century. For thorough technical training and education...

Dotzauer études have been part of the standard repertoire in cello lessons for generations. Johann Friedrich Dotzauer (1783-1860) was among the major cellists and cello pedagogues of the 19th century...

Franz Anton Hoffmeister sicherte sich als Musikverleger in Wien einen wichtigen Platz in der Musikgeschichte. Er war aber auch ein überaus fruchtbarer und geschätzter Komponist der Wiener Klassik. Sei...

With "Ariodante" HWV 33, George Frideric Handel created one of his most moving and musically rich masterworks. This opera in three acts draws audiences into a dramatic world of passion, treacherous in...

Piano reduction based on the Urtext of the New Mozart Edition (Italian/German). Soprano solo (3), tenor solo (2), orchestra - piano reduction

New Urtext Edition based on original sources by Edward Blakeman Saint-Saëns was twenty-three when he wrote his Oratorio de Noël and it has all the freshness of a young composer eager to prove himself....

This major new Urtext edition of Bizet's classic opera is a reconstruction of Bizet's original intentions as indicated in the vocal score he himself prepared in 1864. With the original French text and...

Zadok the priest' and 'The King shall rejoice' are the two best-known of the four Coronation Anthems that Handel wrote for the coronation of George II in London in 1727. HWV 258 was performed for the...

To celebrate the Peace Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession in 1713, the "Utrecht Jubilate" was composed in the same year, shortly after Handel had composed the "Te Deum"....

The ten 'Biblical Songs' op. 99 are the culmination of Antonín Dvorák's song output. This unique cycle, based on Czech Psalm texts from the Kralice Bible, was composed in the United States in 1894. Al...

> Third volume from the new five-volume Urtext edition of Dvorák's complete songs > One of the most popular and best-known song cycles of the romantic repertoire > Extensive Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and...