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What might have occasioned Mozart to rework his original Serenade for sextet into a version for octet (with two oboes) only a few months after he had completed it? Was there an 'external” cause? Once...

Reicha published a total of 24 wind quintets for the 'classical' scoring of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon; op. 88 no. 2 is one of the best-loved and most played. 'If it were possible to surp...

Beethoven's Opus 71 is one of a series of works for mixed wind instruments, which he composed in the 1790s. In 1805 at a performance of the dance-like, lively work in Vienna, the audience praised its...

With his clarinet quintet, begun in 1915, Reger was remembering his role models Mozart and Brahms, whose works in this genre he particularly admired. This melancholic quintet that is worked through in...

Frédéric Chopin composed his piano trio when he was an 18-year-old student. About the performance of the trio on 31 August 1830 he wrote: 'On Sunday we rehearsed the trio. Perhaps because I haven't he...

En junio de 1905, Ravel declara a un amigo poco antes de emprender unas largas vacaciones: "He estado muy ocupado con una pieza para arpa encargada por la compañía Érard. Pude terminarla gracias a och...

The scoring of Schubert's Auf dem Strom (On the River) for voice, horn and piano is reminiscent of that of the Hirt auf dem Felsen (Shepherd on the Rock, HN 969) with obligato clarinet. Both pieces we...

The Divertimento K. 247 in B-flat major was composed for the name day of Countess Antonia Lodron, and was first performed on 18 June 1776 in Salzburg. The little March K. 248 was presumably used to ac...

When Dvořák wrote his Serenade for 10 winds and 2 lower strings in January 1878, the heyday of the great wind serenades and 'Harmoniemusik' wind ensembles was already long gone. He was probably inspir...

After early elimination from the competition for the "Prix de Rome," the coveted award for composition students at the Paris Conservatoire, Chausson withdrew to the countryside in the summer of 1881 a...

This Henle edition is full of mistakes! The publisher can freely admit this, because the odd notes here all come from Mozart himself - he consciously inserted them into his Musical Joke. In this amusi...

The idea for this, the penultimate work in Fauré's oeuvre, came in 1922 from his publisher Jacques Durand, who had published Ravel's famous Piano Trio just a few years earlier. Fauré initially did not...

Mozart often began work on a composition only to put it aside, unfinished. Some of these fragments contain wonderful music, as is proved by these three piano trio fragments. Mozart composed them at di...

Brahms had in fact wanted to stop composing in 1890, but his encounter with the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld inspired him so much that he produced several works in a row for him over a brief period o...

Since 2019, G. Henle Publishers has been the proud agent for Evgeny Kissin’s compositions, which have reached work number 6 with this Piano Trio composed in 2022. Following piano pieces, a violoncello...

Las 22 sonatas para piano de Schubert esbozan una imagen muy esclarecedora de la trayectoria compositiva del compositor prematuramente fallecido. Desde los primeros ensayos del joven dotado de 16 a 19...

Terminado el 1 de enero de 1885, el Cuarteto con piano es, junto con la Sonata para violonchelo op. 6 y la Sonata para violín op. 18, una de las obras de cámara más importantes del joven Strauss. Se t...

The Fantasy Pieces op. 88 are Schumann's first contribution to the genre of the piano trio and date from his very prolific 'chamber music year' 1842. However, Schumann needed an unusually long time to...

Sometimes the symphonies ... are destined to showcase the musicians' talents' - a music dictionary of the time thus commented on a new genre, the 'Symphonie concertante'. The playful competition betwe...

Esta obertura fue encargada por el conjunto judío "Simro", formado por seis antiguos compañeros del Conservatorio de San Petersburgo, con los que Prokófiev se reencontró en Nueva York en 1919. Querían...

This chamber music work, composed in 1907/08, marks a turning point not only in Schönberg's output, but also for the history of modern music in general. Major-minor tonality, obligatory for centuries...

Directly after composing his first violin sonata, Fauré wrote another great chamber music work with the Piano Quartet op. 15. This youthful, fresh composition met with wide approval at its premiere in...

Inspired by the success of his First Piano Quartet, published in 1884, the composer began a second work in this genre only a short time later. The style is considerably more serene and individual than...

For several years following composition of his first piano quartet, Dvořák's publisher Simrock pushed him to compose a follow-up piece in the genre. The work, written during a few short weeks in summe...

As the title implies, these four concertini by Joseph Haydn have to do with small concerti, whereby 'small' is to be considered from several points of view: the size of the Haydn concertini, the scori...