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François Emmanuel Joseph Bazin was born in Marseille in 1816 and died in Paris in 1878. He entered the Conservatory of Music in Paris in 1836 and studied composition and harmony with Henri-Montan Bert...

Sibelius composed the orchestral version of Höstkväll in 1904 for the soprano Aino Ackté (1876-1944) in a German translation by Ferdinand Tilgmann. The date of the premiere itself is not known, but an...

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The serenade flourished in Mozart’s era, but with Brahms the genre experienced a new surge in popularity in the 19th century. Dvořák’s cheerful and relaxed op. 22 came into being in 1875, during a ver...

Elgar’s Serenade for Strings was composed in 1892 and represents the first of his works with which the 35-year-old composer was truly satisfied. Whether, as often claimed, it derives from three pieces...

The occasion for the composition, described as a “suite in the old style”, was the 200th birthday of the Norwegian-Danish poet Ludvik Holberg (1684–1754), which was celebrated in Bergen with several f...

Tchaikovsky spent the summer and autumn of 1880 at his sister’s country estate in Kam’ianka, Ukraine, where he sought peace and relaxation. But after a short time the desire to work took hold of him a...

Debussy wrote these two short dances to a commission from the instrument-making firm of Pleyel, which was keen to use famous names in the marketing of its newly-developed chromatic harp. The dances ar...

A sensational find while revising: BWV 1067 in the A minor original version for violin

Streichquartett(-quintett) oder Streichorchester. Urtext der Neuen Mozart-Ausgabe - String Quartet (Quintet) or String Orchestra Violine (2), Viola, Violoncello, Kontrabass - Studienpartitur; Urtextau...

In 1849 Schumann turned to a new genre: works for piano and accompanying instrument. He showered the different wind instruments systematically with Fantasies, Romances, etc. - and always also provided...

It is said that Saint-Saëns was inspired to write the main theme of his Havanaise by the crackling fireplace in a hotel during a tour in the fall of 1885 with the later dedicatee Rafael Diaz Albertini...

There has been increased general interest in the Bohemian composer Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (c. 1711-1776) over the past few years, especially due to his frequently played trumpet concerto. A respe...

When Reger submitted his Clarinet Sonata op. 107 for printing, he remarked: 'You immediately notice that the work was originally for clarinet (viola) but that it can also be played by violin and piano...

Alongside weighty chamber music works such as piano quartets and violin sonatas, Gabriel Fauré also wrote several charming miniatures for violin and piano. Among these is his Berceuse op. 16 in D majo...

In 1910 the first booklet of Debussy's Préludes for piano (HN383) was published, soon followed by arrangements for various instrumentations commissioned by the original publisher. Only one Prélude, ho...

Bach probably composed his six violin sonatas between 1717 and 1723, during his tenure as court Kapellmeister in Köthen. Apparently he was no longer content with adding the solo part to a bass-line, s...

Henryk Wieniawski was not only one of the most important violin virtuosos of the 19th century, but also wrote cabinet pieces to suit his instrument - and thus gave the violin world brilliant contribut...

Originally planned only as a little duo for violin and piano, the composition grew into a sonata in autumn 1885. The first performances were more than disillusioning for Saint-Saëns, as the violinists...

Every young violinist is familiar with Schubert's sonatinas for violin and piano. The title 'sonatinas' used here is derived from the posthumous print of 1836; Schubert himself called them 'sonatas.'...

It made its creator world-famous and added a towering masterpiece to the standard repertoire: Max Bruch's First Violin Concerto in g minor. Now it's appearing at last in an urtext edition from Henle....

There is no other chamber-music genre for which Mozart produced so many works - see the sonatas and variations - than that of the duos for piano and violin. He spent a considerable amount of time with...

As with most of Schumann's duos for solo instrument and piano, the 'Pieces in Folk Style', originally for violoncello and piano, were also published for an alternative instrument. The publisher expect...

Nicolò Paganini's milestone in violin literature is now not only available in a practical Urtext edition (HN 450) but also as a study score. Published in 1820 as his Opus 1, Paganini gave the violin w...