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We not only owe three of Mozart's horn concertos to his friendship with Ignaz Leutgeb; the solo part of this unusual chamber music work was also written especially for him. Instead of having two violi...

Did Mozart intend this work to be a duo for two bass instruments, or - as the simple basso-like manner of the second part suggests - a sonata for bassoon and keyboard instrument? We will probably neve...

Written in March 1886 as a humorous occasional work for the traditional carnival concert organized by his cellist friend Charles-Joseph Lebouc, the Carnival of the Animals was so successful that Saint...

It is hardly surprising that Beethoven did not write any more chamber music for winds after 1800. Following the change to middle-class musical culture, demand declined for buoyant serenades and divert...

After an early work and a discontinued attempt in 1831/32 Mendelssohn made his breakthrough in this important chamber music genre in the summer of 1839 with the Piano Trio in d minor op. 49, which was...

En la década de 1910, un enamoramiento romántico de la arpista Eleonora Damskaja llevó al joven Sergei Prokofiev a componer tres piezas cortas para arpa y dedicárselas. Dos de estas composiciones se i...

Debussy wrote these two short dances to a commission from the instrument-making firm of Pleyel, which was keen to use famous names in the marketing of its newly-developed chromatic harp. The dances ar...

Two of Joseph Haydn's three concertos for horn and orchestra have been lost, while two further horn concertos have often been mistakenly ascribed to him. Haydn's sole surviving horn concerto, whose au...

'Something quite curious, I believe' - it was thus that Robert Schumann described the Concert Piece for four Horns and large orchestra in a letter, and he did indeed break new ground with this work as...

The horn is surely the most 'romantic' of instruments, and it is a well-known fact that it plays a prominent role in Weber's oeuvre. Der Freischütz and Oberon would be unthinkable without their horn c...

In the summer of 1888, while also working on his tone poem Don Juan, Richard Strauss composed this brief Andante for his father, Franz Strauss, a member of the Munich Court Opera and one of the greate...

Henrik Wiese has created a great stir in recent years with his many Mozart editions for Henle. He adheres strictly to Mozart's autograph score, allowing only a few sporadic editorial additions and dis...

Oddly, Mozart wrote out the score of his most famous horn concerto not only in black ink but also in red, green, and blue. Whether he meant this as a genial prank or had higher aspirations in mind wil...

This edition completes our series of all three clarinet concertos by the Swedish composer and clarinetist Bernhard Henrik Crusell. It appeared as his first printed work in Leipzig in 1811, but was cer...

Robert Schumann in fact composed just one work for the clarinete, namely the 'Drei Fantasiestücke' op. 73 for clarinet and piano of February 1849. But the 'Drei Romanzen' op. 94 for oboe, written at t...

Originally written for the final year clarinet examination at the Paris Conservatoire, Debussy's 'Première Rhapsodie” has quickly become a bestseller of the clarinet repertoire, being a highly impress...

Carl Nielsen's 'Fantasy Pieces' for Oboe and Piano were composed in 1889/90. Having just gained a position as a violinist in the Royal Danish Orchestra, Nielsen had already experienced success with hi...

'Oboe Concerto 1945, inspired by an American soldier, (oboist from Chicago)' - was what Richard Strauss noted down. And the oboist and soldier with the American occupation John de Lancie had indeed as...

This Henle Urtext edition in unrivalled in layout and precision. The professional journal 'Rohrblatt' wrote shortly after its publication (in 2004): 'An editorial stroke of genius … Every oboist who a...

Both of these works for two oboes and cor anglais, which Beethoven composed in the 1790s, belong to the lighter genre of serenades and divertimentos. He might have written them in response to a commis...

Sabemos muy poco del Divertimento en re mayor K. 334 de Mozart, que sigue siendo popular hoy en día: no se ha conservado ningún autógrafo, y en las dos ediciones publicadas tras la muerte de Mozart ha...

Los conciertos para clave de Johann Sebastian Bach, enormemente populares hoy en día, ofrecieron en su día al compositor un auténtico campo de experimentación. Bach utilizaba a menudo material preexis...

Los conciertos para clave de Johann Sebastian Bach, enormemente populares hoy en día, ofrecieron en su día al compositor un auténtico campo de experimentación. Bach utilizaba a menudo material preexis...

Sería difícil imaginar el repertorio de conciertos actual sin los conciertos para clave de Johann Sebastian Bach. No se sabe si el Concierto en la mayor BWV 1055, como algunos de los otros conciertos...

Sería difícil imaginar el repertorio de conciertos actual sin los conciertos para clave de Johann Sebastian Bach. No se sabe si el Concierto en la mayor BWV 1055, como algunos de los otros conciertos...