Urtext Edition

No other great composer has left so many works for piano four-hands as Franz Schubert - altogether 54 (32 of these with opus number): fantasies, dances, marches, variations, rondos, sonatas etc. - Pla...

The early Piano Sonata op. 4 offers interesting insights into the young Chopin's compositional development. In all probability written during his student years at the Warsaw Conservatory and highly pr...

Haydn only made piano arrangements of his own works in very special cases. The popularity of his hymn 'Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser' (God Save Emperor Francis) did not simply occasion him to write th...

When he switched from the harpsichord to the fortepiano in the 1780s, Joseph Haydn found he had a rich palette of sound colours and dynamic variations at his disposal, and he employed them enthusiasti...

The only surviving original recording of Albéniz' piano playing is from 1903. On a visit to Ruperto Regordosa Planas he had sat down at the former's piano and improvised three short pieces. Planas rec...

Franz Xaver Mozart was W. A. Mozart's youngest son. Intended for a career in music by his mother from the very beginning, he followed in his father's footsteps but was not able to step out from under...

No other great composer left so many works for piano duet as Franz Schubert: altogether 54 (32 of which have an opus number) including fantasias, dances, marches, variations, rondos, sonatas, etc. Amo...

Along with the beautiful facsimile edition of the autograph score to be published on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's birth (HN 3221), we are also publishing a completely rev...

The 'Valses oubliées' belong to Liszt's late work, characterised by themes such as memory, sorrow and grief. They do not form a cycle but were written as separate pieces between 1881 and 1884. The tit...

Often referred to by pianists as the 'Dante Sonata', it is the closing piece in the second volume of the 'Années de Pèlerinage' (HN 174) and is now finally available as a single edition. In 1839, whil...

Liszt's piano cycle 'Harmonies poétiques et religieuses' (HN 639) was inspired by religious-philosophical poems of the French Romantic Alphonse de Lamartine. Whereas the cycle as a whole remained comp...

About three years after the publication of the second volume of his 'Années de Pèlerinage' (Italy), Liszt added a supplement to this collection: the triptych 'Venezia e Napoli'. For this he reworked t...

In the 19th century, arrangements for piano four-hands were usually versions which people played at home if the works could not be heard in concert. In cases such as these Brahms did not, however, jus...

Urtext Edition in Original Clefs from the Autograph Manuscript.

Band 2 der praktischen Urtext-Ausgaben sämtlicher Werke für Klavier von Sergei Rachmaninoff präsentiert die Klavierkompositionen aus den 1890er Jahren auf der Grundlage des ungekürzten Notentexts aus...

Ein Muss für die genaue Auseinandersetzung mit den Rachmaninoff-Préludes! Band 3 der praktischen Urtext-Ausgaben sämtlicher Werke für Klavier von Sergei Rachmaninoff veröffentlicht im Anhang erstmals...

Rachmaninow fand es Zeit seines Lebens recht schwierig, kleine Stücke für Klavier zu komponieren. In einem Brief an N. S. Morozov (vom 30. Juli/11. August 1911) schreibt er in Bezug auf den Beginn sei...

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Beethoven's Variations on Folk Tunes for piano alone or with flute accompaniment (Six varied themes op. 105 and Ten varied themes op. 107), although late works, are in the tradition of early Classical...