Egon Voss

Cuando Richard Wagner llegó a París en septiembre de 1839, tenía grandes planes: París debía ayudarle a alcanzar el éxito internacional como compositor de ópera. Pero estas esperanzas no tardaron en r...

Cuando Richard Wagner llegó a París en septiembre de 1839, tenía grandes planes: París debía ayudarle a alcanzar el éxito internacional como compositor de ópera. Pero estas esperanzas no tardaron en r...

Brahms' cello sonatas are probably amongst the most beautiful that has ever been written for this instrument. The publication of the two works in the new Brahms Complete Edition has prompted us to pub...

The most important source for Bach's Cello Suites is a copy made by his wife Anna Magdalena because the autograph is no longer extant. As further copies show, the actual musical text is scarcely probl...

In 1894 Johannes Brahms asked the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld to visit him during his beloved summer sojourn in Ischl, adding "It would be really wonderful if you brought your B flat clarinet with y...

Schubert's composition of a new string quartet begun in December 1820 was, alas, never to get beyond the first movement; the heavily reworked autograph breaks off at the outset of the second movement....

No music lover can remain untouched by the emotional quality of this work, composed in Schubert's last year. The monumental weight of the outer movements, the intimate lyricism of the 'Adagio', as wel...

No music lover can remain untouched by the emotional quality of this work, composed in Schubert's last year. The monumental weight of the outer movements, the intimate lyricism of the 'Adagio', as wel...

Grieg's Third Violin Sonata is one of his major creations and stands alongside the sonatas of Johannes Brahms and César Franck at the pinnacle of late nineteenth century chamber music. One small measu...

Das Erbe deutscher Musik setzt die Tradition der deutschen musikalischen Denkmälerpublikationen fort und veröffentlicht wichtige Werke der deutschen Musikgeschichte in kritischer und zugleich praktisc...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The variation cycle and the fugue are genres in which Max Reger developed a special mastery. Thus one can speak of Reger's unique Bach Variations op. 81 as the culmination of his piano oeuvre, offerin...

Max Hehemann stated once, 'Reger just simply happens to be complicated'. This sums up the usual and for the main part accurate assessment that is prevalent in the music world of the works of one of th...

In his numerous collections of small character pieces, the imaginative Max Reger gradually developed a style of his own, in the shadow of the Romantic epigones. His music is characterised by modulatin...

Reger's 'Five Humoresques' follow in the footsteps of the nineteenth-century genre inaugurated by Robert Schumann's 'Humoresque', op. 20. Occasionally Reger gives vent to high-spirited good humor, as...

From early childhood, Max Reger grew into the tradition of artisanal, practical composition in which Johann Sebastian Bach became his role model. Traditional forms such as canon, fugue, passacaglia an...

The Serenade op. 41 is based on Beethoven's Opus 25 for flute, violin and viola. Although the version for piano and flute (or violin) did not originate from the composer - but was probably undertaken...

There are still little, unknown gems to be found by even the greatest and most famous names in music history. This charming, short duo in two movements will delight flautists: Neither flute part is te...

His present pieces must convince both connoisseurs and others alike of the unbiased opinion that Beethoven will in time become one of the greatest composers in Europe', thus wrote Joseph Haydn, when i...