Breitkopf & Härtel KG

I want to do an edition that is not a Koopman interpretation, but brings only what is really Handel.' (Ton Koopman)

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Without Carl Reinecke's Concerto in D major op. 283, the 19th century would be a pretty white spot on the repertoire map of the genre 'flute concerto'.

Russian music researcher Polina Vajdman has gone back to all relevant sources in her editing.

The score and orchestral parts are available for purchase for the first time in a new edition of La Mer.

The much-played 'Scottish', which incidentally Mendelssohn never called so, appears in the Urtext edition in a new light.

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.

Schumann's 'Sinfonietta' in the Urtext The intensity with which Schumann dealt with the symphony is shown not only by the four known works themselves, but also by compositions that stand between the g...

Click here for the original version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Ravel's ingenious compositional interpretation is still the best-known and most independent orchestration of Pictures at...

El multiforme homenaje de Ravel en el "Breitkopf Urtext" En su homenaje Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel recurre menos al propio Couperin que a la música francesa del siglo XVIII. Por otra parte, el edit...

Gewiss hatte Robert Schumann recht, als er bald nach Beethovens Tod konstatierte, dass dessen Konzeption von der Sinfonie als großem, universellem Bekenntniswerk von der nächsten Komponistengeneration...

Die Ouvertüre zu Ruy Blas, die letzte von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy komponierte Ouvertüre, ist nicht als frei konzipierte Partitur, sondern als Eröffnungsstück einer Bühnenmusik entstanden. Allerdin...

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...

Desde su estreno ha suscitado reacciones apasionadas. A día de hoy, la Quinta de Mahler sigue siendo un trabajo duro tanto para los intérpretes como para los oyentes, además de un problema (casi) irre...

Mahlers Neunte singt von Schönheit, Liebe und Vergänglichkeit. "Welt! Lebe wohl" notierte Mahler über den letzten Takten. Seine letzte vollendete Symphonie umarmt die Welt von Gestern und stößt zuglei...

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...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy created a standard work with his final violin concerto in E minor op. 64 MWV O 14 that is now firmly established in today's concert repertoire. When in 1838 the composer in...

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his 'Don Juan') of his reputation and above all of his 'value' as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by...

Tod und Verklärung marks a turning point in Richard Strauss's corpus of tone poems: Even before the November 1889 premiere of his previous work Don Juan, Strauss had finished his third work in this ge...

The famous Valse triste grew out of the incidental music to Arvid Järnefelts drama Kuolema (Death). After the first staged performances in December 1903 at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Si...

Johann Sebastian Bachs Magnificat BWV 243 ist eine opulente Festmusik, die in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Besonderheit in seinem Œuvre darstellt. Die erste Fassung (Es-dur, BWV 243.1) erfährt ihre Urauff...

Obra de repertorio indispensable; primera versión crítica; dos versiones de la balada incluidas en partitura y reducción para piano Carl Reinecke estaba interesado en explorar la música y no sólo en "...

Se dice que "El Danubio Azul" es el himno secreto de Austria y, junto con la "Marcha Radetzky", es la pieza tradicional del Concierto de Año Nuevo de la Filarmónica de Viena. Ya en su estreno mundial...