Christian Rudolf Riedel

The Song of the Earth, composed in the summer of 1908, is Mahler's best-known and most personal work. Reflecting drastic changes in his life, its immense emotional density is very moving. Until the ve...

The first textcritical edition of Mahler's most extensive work is a further milestone in the project, 'Mahler - The Symphonies.' The many sources first consulted here for an edition include, among oth...

Erstmals vollständig: Mozarts 'nulltes' Hornkonzert. Als 1988 zum bekannten Rondo KV 371 zwei Blätter mit 60 zusätzlichen Takten auftauchten, war das eine sensationelle Entdeckung.

Das zweisätzige, in unvollständiger Form überlieferte Hornkonzert D-dur KV 412 galt lange als Mozarts erstes Hornkonzert, es ist jedoch sein letztes, entstanden zwischen März und Dezember 1791. Im Aut...

For the 'Fidelio' overture, composed at lightning speed in 1814, a copy of the score in the Austrian National Library today provides a reliable basis for a new text-critical edition.

Of all his symphonies, Mahler gave the Fourth, his favorite and problem child, his most particular attention. 'The Heavenly Life,' a humoresque composed in 1892 for soprano and piano, which he already...

Kadenzen zu diesem Werk von Ferruccio Busoni in EB 4779 und Tossy Spivakowsky in EB 6460

I had just grown particularly fond of the piece, although it is hardly something for the so-called audience; but I loved it ... Mendelssohn wrote about his setting of the 114th Psalm.

For the 'Fidelio' overture, composed at lightning speed in 1814, a copy of the score in the Austrian National Library today provides a reliable basis for a new text-critical edition.

The first textcritical edition of Mahler's most extensive work is a further milestone in the project, 'Mahler - The Symphonies.' The many sources first consulted here for an edition include, among oth...

Of all his symphonies, Mahler gave the Fourth, his favorite and problem child, his most particular attention. 'The Heavenly Life,' a humoresque composed in 1892 for soprano and piano, which he already...

The Song of the Earth, composed in the summer of 1908, is Mahler's best-known and most personal work. Reflecting drastic changes in his life, its immense emotional density is very moving. Until the ve...

The search for an authoritative musical text led Christian Rudolf Riedel, among others, to the 'New World', specifically to the archives of the New York Philharmonic ...

The importance of the genre "overture" for Robert Schumann is shown by the creation chronology of his only opera. The composer notes "overture thoughts" as the first keyword in the household book and...

[Vl,Orch] - (Christian R. Riedel)

Urtext of the 'Revolution Overture' The overture to 'Hermann and Dorothea' is Schumann's only compositional result to Goethe's verse epic. Originally he planned a whole opera, then a Singspiel, finall...

Urtext-Neuland: Die Ouvertüre Leonore Nr. 3 To this day, the two central Fidelio overtures are performed from musical texts that date back to the inaccurate and erroneous first printings of the parts....

The first textcritical edition of Mahler's most extensive work is a further milestone in the project, 'Mahler - The Symphonies.' The many sources first consulted here for an edition include, among oth...

The Song of the Earth, composed in the summer of 1908, is Mahler's best-known and most personal work. Reflecting drastic changes in his life, its immense emotional density is very moving. Until the ve...