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Bach's Six Partitas form what is presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history. Bach was aware of the weightiness of his cycle as he initially had these multi-moveme...

As well as Tchaikovsky's famous Piano Concerto, his extensive oeuvre for solo piano also makes an important contribution to romantic piano music. It includes 'The Seasons' op. 37 - pleasant playable p...

Grieg's celebrated Piano Concerto turns out to be an editor's nightmare. Even during the composer's lifetime the work was so famous that it had to be reprinted over and over again, each time with revi...

As indestructible as Rachmaninoff's c-sharp-minor Prélude (HN1211) may be, it is not his only Prélude to have begun a 'solo career' of its own: with its rousing rhythms and rhapsodic middle section, t...

Schubert at the piano, with his inexhaustible wealth of dance melodies, his friends around him dancing and playing jokes - this is one of the traditional images of Schubert that we so cherish. The ter...

Digitación: Pascal Rogé Según el propio Ravel, no hay que dar demasiada importancia al extraño título de la pequeña pieza para piano compuesta en 1899, "Pavana para una princesa muerta". Lo eligió pri...

Es cuestión de gustos personales si el segundo o el tercer concierto para piano de Rachmaninoff es el mejor. Pero no cabe duda de que "Rach 3", con su abundancia de ideas melódicas, se cuenta hoy entr...

Los primeros Estudios op. 8 de Scriabin están en el corazón del repertorio pianístico virtuoso, su intención metódica y pedagógica es claramente visible. Sin embargo, también son 12 piezas de carácter...

Este ciclo de seis piezas para piano fue compuesto en 1896, sólo cuatro años después de que Rachmaninov terminara sus estudios en el Conservatorio de Moscú, y ya muestra signos del maestro maduro en e...

Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas 6–8 are often referred to as “war sonatas”, since they were composed in Russia during World War II during times of great hardship. As the shortest of the three, no. 7 is enti...

In 1913, three years after publication of the Préludes I, another collection of twelve Préludes appeared. The pieces are longer and make use of a very wide register, which is why Debussy mainly notate...

The first of Debussy's larger piano works was published in 1901. The slow middle movement had already been written in 1894. This grave Sarabande in the old style was published in a newspaper supplemen...

Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's sister, wrote music throughout her life. She originally published her songs and piano pieces under her brother's name, but soon began to use her own name in...

This dark and tragic sonata in A minor, composed in Paris in 1778, tends to be linked with the death of Mozart's mother on 3 July 1778. While this of course cannot be ruled out, not a single concrete...

As did many piano virtuosi at the time, Robert Schumann also dreamt of presenting himself to the public simultaneously as a pianist and composer with his own piano concerto. He had made several first...

The Scottish ballad 'Edward' from J. G. Herders anthology of folk songs 'Stimmen der Völker in Liedern' made such a deep impression on Brahms that, as he told a friend, the melodies came to him effort...

In the summer of 1894, Antonín Dvorák interrupted his stay in America in order to spend his holidays back in his homeland of Bohemia. During those happy weeks, he wrote his eight Humoresques for piano...

Schumann's Papillons op. 2 has been a best-selling item in Henle's catalogue for decades. What is special about our revised new edition? First, the musical text has been painstakingly compared once ag...

'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...

This edition with over 50 pages contains the universally known selection of easy preludes and little fugues that has proved extremely successful in teaching the piano. Bach's sons, with Wilhelm Friede...

'Decisive and manly,' 'most profound sentiment and delicacy,' and 'imaginative humour' - thus does Beethoven's contemporary Carl Czerny accurately describe the three movements of this expressive sonat...

Prokofiev did not compose his Visions fugitives – 20 “fleeting visions” – in one go, but in clusters between 1915 and 1917, immediately before the Russian Revolution that compelled him to leave his na...

Possibly the most famous late Romantic piano work and now finally also available in Henle Urtext! First published in 1892 as part of the piano cycle 'Morceaux de Fantaisie' op. 3, the work also soon b...

Rachmaninoff's legendary Opus 18, often lovingly referred to as 'Rach 2,' is for many the epitome of the Romantic piano concerto. Following its acclaimed premiere in Moscow in 1901, it proved to be a...

When his contemporaries heard the works that Johannes Brahms had composed during his summer holiday in Ischl in 1893 - the Piano Pieces op. 118 -, they were delighted. Clara Schumann was one of the fi...