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From the outset, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe intended music to play a role in his tragedy 'Egmont', which takes place during the uprising of the Dutch against Spanish dominion in the 16th century. Ludw...

The origin of this concert aria, which is a core piece in the singer's repertoire, is swathed in mystery. We still do not know where Beethoven found the text for the aria. The text for the recitative...

> First modern Urtext edition > The appendix contains an eleventh chorale prelude - published for the first time > Most of them can also be played by amateur pianists Alongside the Chaconne for violin...

The French Bach cult, which began in the early 19th century, reached an initial highpoint around 1850. Charles Gounod, still largely unknown at the time, also studied Bach's works intensively - his ch...

The world-famous pianist András Schiff, a most familiar name to Bach fans on account of his complete recordings of Bach's piano works, has provided fingerings for both parts of the Well-Tempered Clavi...

When Mendelssohn learned from his publisher Nikolaus Simrock that he was to receive an additional honorarium for a part of his 'Lieder ohne Worte', he effusively thanked him for this gift. However, th...

Liszt wrote his two Ballades in 1845-49 and 1853 during a time of personal turmoil. The successful virtuoso increasingly saw himself as a composer who strove after formal clarity, as shown by the B mi...

Looking back in 1876, Liszt admitted candidly to the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel that his 'Wagner transcriptions' had 'only served as modest propaganda for Wagner's noble genius, using the meagre pos...

Froberger may no longer be considered the progenitor of the piano suite, but his suites for keyboard instruments have, without a doubt, had a considerable influence on the development of this genre. H...

Two copies necessary for performance. Shortly after a rather unsuccessful performance of his Piano Concerto no. 1, Johannes Brahms wrote to Joseph Joachim in 1859: '... a second one will sound differe...

Franz Schubert's piano works belong to pianists' core repertoire and of course, to Henle's, too. Our catalogue contains almost all of Schubert's piano compositions. This volume contains the piano work...

Estas seis danzas constituyen la culminación final del "Mikrokosmos" de Bartók (HN1408-1410), esa obra del siglo que comprende más de 150 piezas. Dedicó esta agrupación, recogida bajo su propio título...

The revision of the three-volume edition of Haydn's piano sonatas also appears in a version without fingerings. Whoever wishes to study the Classical sonata canon in 'pure' Urtext, free from added fin...

This rondo for piano was composed in 1794/95 and has become known primarily by its sobriquet "The rage over the lost penny". However, this did not originate with the composer himself, but rather added...

The Fifth Hungarian Rhapsody, published in 1853, emerged from several earlier versions. The double character indicated in the sobriquet “Héroïde élégiaque” is based on the two contrary themes: a “hero...

Con motivo del 150 aniversario de la muerte de Ferruccio Busoni, la editorial G. Henle publica una de sus obras originales más importantes para piano solo. A la vista de sus populares arreglos de Bach...

Revised edition HN1118 in preparation

These two short, unpretentious sonatinas in G major and F major were published during Beethoven's lifetime in ca. 1807. Since then they have become firmly established in the repertoire for beginners d...

This most famous funeral march in music history is part of a piano sonata, the third movement of Chopin's op. 35 Sonata in b-flat minor, in which - according to Robert Schumann -- Chopin 'brought toge...

In autumn 1891 Debussy's early piano piece, Ballade slave, was published by Choudens. When he had it re-engraved by Fromont in a slightly revised form in 1903, he deleted the word slave. Thus the titl...

Brahms began his career as a pianist. His contribution to the piano music of the 19th century is significant in two respects: following Schubert and Schumann he cultivated the small, lyrical form, whi...

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...

The epithet "English Suites" - as with the "French Suites" - did not originate with Bach himself. In contrast to the six intimate French Suites, Bach's English Suites adopt a grander tone, each one op...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his five large piano concertos over a period of twenty years. His Fourth Concerto in G major op. 58, largely written in 1805/06, is here presented in a piano reduction fo...