Rolf Koenen

'Do you love Brahms?' The majority of music lovers will answer 'yes', and they might be thinking of the Waltz op. 39 no. 15 - its gently rocking melody is one of Brahms's most famous inspirations. Bot...

Edward Elgar's Salut d'amour is one of those pieces by the British composer that has a particularly haunting melody. The short work also had a special significance for the composer. Caroline Alice Rob...

Already our first volume of original piano works by Mozart's youngest son made the music world take notice. The second volume now completes the collection of works by this composer who is often undere...

Fauré's 13 Nocturnes form the most significant group of piano character pieces in his oeuvre. Despite their title - which places them in the tradition of John Field and Frédéric Chopin - Fauré here de...

This Spanish composer wrote compositions for every genre, but the piano was undoubtedly his main focus. The 12 'Danzas españolas', first published in four volumes between 1890 and 1895, are an importa...

For a long time it was assumed that Beethoven reworked seven older pieces for his op. 33, published in 1803. But in the meantime it has been determined that all the surviving sketches came into being...

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...

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...

From among Reinecke's abundant oeuvre, a very few works have from the beginning maintained their position in the concert repertoire. First and foremost among these is the Flute Sonata op. 167 with the...

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart did not have an easy time of it - throughout his life his compositions were always compared to those of his father. It is only recently that he has slowly begun to come int...

> Spirited miniature about the Spanish city Seville > Original piano version of the famous guitar flamenco > Single edition from HN783 When Albéniz' work Sevilla was performed in Madrid in 1886, it no...

Edward Elgar's Salut d'amour is one of those pieces by the British composer that has a particularly haunting melody. Composed in 1888 for his future wife Caroline Alice Roberts, the work became an eno...

> Follows the Text in the new Brahms Complete Edition > Popular pieces in the repertoire > Replaces HN42 > Fingering: Rolf KoenenBrahms' Hungarian Dances count on brilliant and spirited virtuosity whe...

In summer 1881 Franz Liszt composed a work that he called 'Valse oubliée' (Forgotten waltz) in a letter to his publisher. The work is reminiscent of the appealing piano waltzes that the composer used...

> Fingering: Rolf Koenen > Detailed critical commentary (not available in the printed editions) available free-of-charge: Download Eagerly awaited by countless pianists: a fourth Urtext volume with a...

Señor Albéniz may well inscribe upon his escutcheon the words 'Veni, vidi, vici'.' The London press thus commented on the Spaniard's triumphal tour of Britain between 1889 and 1893. It was in the Brit...

> Follows the Text in the new Brahms Complete Edition > Full chord simplified and complicated keys transposed by the composer > Replaces HN43 > Fingering: Rolf KoenenFollowing the publication of the 1...

> Extremely popular music by Brahms > Follows the text in the new Brahms Complete Edition > Excellent fingerings (Rolf Koenen) that provide the best possible help for mastering these complex works > R...