Urtext Edition

Once again, Henle can boast of an important new addition to its Pantheon of great composers: Ernest Chausson. Based on a novella by the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev, the Poème for violin and orchest...

The Sonata in G major owes its epithet 'Rain Song Sonata' to two melodies from Brahms' 'Rain Songs' op. 59 nos. 3 and 4 which are quoted at the beginning of the last movement. An ornamental leaf with...

They are in a light style, intended more for use in the home than for concert performance'. Thus Smetana described these two duets in which he memorialised his Bohemian homeland. It is a fact, though...

The genesis of Berg's Violin Concerto in 1935 is shrouded in tragedy. He had only just finished making the first sketches when Manon Gropius - the daughter of Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler, with whom...

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his ten violin sonatas during a period of just fifteen years, between 1797 and 1812. Using our carefully revised two-volume edition of the complete sonatas, the performer ca...

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 8)

The Sonata in D minor, Op. 108 for violin and piano is one of the most passionate and virtuosic masterworks in the entire chamber music repertoire. With this piece, Johannes Brahms crafted a captivati...

Immerse yourself in the consummate sound world of Johann Sebastian Bach: The first volume of the celebrated Six Sonatas for Violin and Obbligato Harpsichord (BWV 1014–1016) is presented here in an exc...

Immerse yourself in the rich sonic world of Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterworks with the second volume of the "6 Sonatas" (BWV 1017–1019), published by the renowned Wiener Urtext Edition. Carefully pr...

In the notes on interpretation, the editor explains Mozart's interpretative markings and thus brings together in a central place what would otherwise have to be laboriously compiled from scattered art...

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 7)

Based on the practice of the time to vary the improvisatory moments indicated by fermatas on repetition, suggestions for execution are added to the musical text in footnotes. Karl Maguerre (editor), b...

Franck's Sonata is one of the most famous works in the chamber music repertoire. This new Wiener Urtext Edition is based on the first edition with Franck's final corrections. Inconsistencies between t...

Arcangelo Corelli's Violin Sonatas Op. 5 are among those works in violin literature that mark a new epoch, and until this day they have been part of the standard repertory of every violinist. Therefor...

Arcangelo Corelli's Violin Sonatas Op. 5 are among those works in violin literature that mark a new epoch, and until this day they have been part of the standard repertory of every violinist. Therefor...

Schumann's Violin Sonatas were taken up with enthusiasm very soon after they were first performed. The Second Sonata was described at the time as Second only to Beethoven's Sonata in A. Sonatas Op. 10...

In Vol. 2 of the Violin Sonatas by Robert Schumann, the Wiener Urtext Edition presents the F.A.E. sonata jointly composed by Schumann, Brahms and Albert Dietrich, as well as the edited version, with t...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo are among the most famous masterpieces of their kind. Unlike the closely related Suites for Violoncello Solo, the violin solos have survive...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's works for violin and harpsichord obbligato pervade his entire compositional oeuvre. The earliest works, like the Sonata in D minor still numbered BWV 1036, date back to the...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's works for violin and harpsichord obbligato pervade his entire compositional oeuvre. The earliest works, like the Sonata in D minor still numbered BWV 1036, date back to the...

Franz Schubert wrote his Sonata in A minor D 821 for piano and arpeggione, a hybrid instrument between guitar and violoncello that briefly came into fashion in the 1820s. Today, the piece has become a...

William Byrd is one of the great English composers of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Today this creative Catholic at the Anglican court of Elisabeth I is known primarily for his masses, motet...

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