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Christian Sinding's six Piano Pieces Op. 32 have become world famous due to third piece Rustle of Spring. Sinding's music combines late-Romantic tonal charm with mysterious Nordic cadences, also typic...

The anthology developed in collaboration with the European Institute for Piano Pedagogy (EIPP) covers piano music from Bach to Schoenberg in the urtext version, containing major concert literature whi...

Franz Schubert's Impromptus Op. 90 (D 899) are among the most frequently played of his piano works and have become well-established in music lessons and in the concert repertoire. This Wiener Urtext E...

Franz Schubert's Impromptus Op. post 142 (D 935) are among his most frequently played piano works and have found a permanent place in music lessons and in the concert repertoire. The Wiener Urtext Edi...

Alongside the Impromptus, the Moments musicaux are among Franz Schubert's best-known and most popular piano compositions. The Wiener Urtext Edition now presents a new edition based on the latest resea...

Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos is one of the key works of 20th-century piano music. The repertoire comprises educational pieces 'from the very first beginning' as well as concert literature, thus making th...

Béla Bartók crowned his Mikrokosmos published in 1940 with Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm. On the one hand, they reflect manifold influences of Balkan folk music on the composer's oeuvre and, on the o...

Only few pieces have ever won over the audience and haunted their composer as much as Rakhmaninov's Prélude in C sharp minor. The composer virtually complained that 'people want to have it played all...

Three Romances op. 28 by Robert Schumann is a highlight of Romantic piano music, reflecting the broad facets of everything that could be seen as 'romance' in 19th-century music. The new edition is bas...

Separate edition for practical use: Sonata in C minor Hob. XVI:20 ranks among the piano works by Haydn which have a permanent place in the concert repertoire. Featuring only intermediate technical dem...

Separate edition for practical use: Sonata in C major Hob. XVI:48 opens the series of Haydn's late 'classical' piano sonatas which were to leave their marks even in Beethoven's works. The first moveme...

It is not only Beethoven's most famous piano piece, but also one of the most famous musical works of all, the piano piece 'Für Elise'. The fact that experts are still puzzling over who might be behind...

Ludwig van Beethoven left us 35 piano sonatas actually. The three sonatas from his days in Bonn, published in 1783, do not have an opus number and therefore do not appear in the canon of 32 sonatas. H...

The newly revised edition of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas in the Wiener Urtext Edition is the only one of the more recent Urtext editions to be based on a broad range of sources. It includes n...

The newly revised edition of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas in the Wiener Urtext Edition is the only one of the more recent Urtext editions to be based on a broad range of sources. It includes n...

Volume 3 of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas in Wiener Urtext Edition contains the Sonatas Op. 78, 79, 81a, 90, 101, 106, 109, 110, and 111. The re-revised musical text is based on several newly accessed sou...

Beethoven's Sonata op. 10/1 was composed over a lengthy period from 1795 to 1798, during which the composer vacillated between four and three movements for a long time. Beethoven had considered two pi...

200 years ago, in the late autumn of 1817, Beethoven began the first sketches for the most monumental of his piano sonatas, the Hammerklavier Sonata op. 106. In the fall of 2017, Wiener Urtext Edition...

This sonata is easier to study than all the earlier ones, and was therefore always extremely popular. (Carl Czerny). In fact, among Beethoven's famous piano sonatas, the Grande Sonate pathétique is th...

Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C major op. 53, known as the Waldstein Sonata, is one of the highlights of all piano music. The large-scale work was originally far more expansive with its extensive Andant...

Beethoven’s Sonata Les Adieux is the composer’s only piano sonata with a programmatic background. The reason for its creation was the so-called 5th coalition war, in which Napoleon’s army invaded Aust...

Beethoven himself called the composition Sonate facile oder Sonatine. Although comparatively easier to play than most of his piano sonatas, it shows all the "typical" stylistic elements, such as surpr...

Several times in his life Beethoven dealt with the Bagatelle genre. These charming, profound miniatures demonstrate Beethoven's extraordinary ability to compactly express complex compositional ideas....

As a Viennese music publisher with a special focus on Viennese Classicism, the Wiener Urtext Edition presents a selection of well-known and representative piano works of the Viennese Classical period...

As a Viennese music publisher with a special focus on Viennese Classicism, the Wiener Urtext Edition presents a selection of well-known and representative piano works of the Viennese Classical period...