G. Henle Verlag

This selection of five 'easy' sonatas offers advanced students of piano and aficionados the perfect entry point into the singular world of this great composer's piano sonatas. Arranged in increasing l...

Five famous sonatas by Beethoven - all bearing a popular epithet known the world over - are presented to advanced pianists in this attractive volume of selected works from the new three-volume Urtext...

Las Danzas populares rumanas de Bartók, compuestas en 1915, figuran entre sus obras más conocidas. Existen en múltiples formas, ya que además de varios arreglos para piano y una versión orquestal post...

El Mikrokosmos de Bartók es uno de los hitos del repertorio pianístico pedagógico y, sin embargo, es mucho más que un manual de piano "clásico". Estas 153 piezas para piano, organizadas en orden ascen...

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...

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 talentoso joven de 16 a...

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...

Edición revisada que sustituye a la HN173 Los tres volúmenes de los "Années de pèlerinage" constituyen el núcleo de la obra pianística de Liszt. En el primer volumen, "Suisse", el compositor plasmó la...

Sergei Rachmaninoff inició su carrera compositiva con cinco piezas cortas para piano, que presentó por primera vez en diciembre de 1892 en un concierto en Charkow (actual Kharkiv). La segunda pieza, c...

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...

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...

Los planes de Ravel para un concierto para piano se remontan a 1906, pero no fue hasta principios de 1929 cuando el compositor empezó a trabajar seriamente en él. Más tarde declaró que lo había escrit...

One of the answers found by Schönberg's circle to the question about how musical processes could be shaped without a tonal context was in the extreme streamlining of the form. With Schönberg's Six Lit...

These piano studies, fully worked out in summer 1848, but presumably sketched earlier, were published in the German original edition at the beginning of 1849 simply with the numbering 1-3. In the fir...

This last of the surviving C major sonatas was written during Haydn's second London sojourn in 1794/95 for the pianist Terese Jansen, Mrs Bartolozzi. It seems to have been a very personal expression o...

Liszt's piano rhapsodies are in the same tradition as his transcriptions of opera or song themes, but in this case the point of departure is folk dances and songs. Liszt described no. 2 of his Hungari...

One of Scriabin’s best-known piano pieces is also one of his very first compositions. He wrote it when he was only fifteen years old; when it appeared in print in 1893, the twenty-one-year-old was sti...

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...

Johannes Brahms eligió en dos ocasiones un tema de su amigo y mentor Robert Schumann como base para variaciones para piano. Mientras que las Variaciones op. 9 fueron compuestas para piano solo, como e...

Only very few piano works have become as popular as this theme with twelve variations. It already caught on soon after Mozart's death, as witnessed by the numerous handwritten copies and prints. Altho...

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...

The Serbian composer, conductor and university lecturer Marko Tajčević, who died in 1984, was one of the leading personalities in Yugoslavian musical life after 1945. His works are typically conceived...

The three piano sonatas K. 330-332 were probably written in Vienna or Salzburg in summer 1783, thus many years later than previous Mozart scholarship had assumed. This F-major sonata K. 332 was publis...

Like many other nineteenth-century musicians, Robert Schumann wanted to settle down in the musical capital of Vienna. Though these plans came to naught, his stay in Vienna in 1839 gave rise to an enti...

Schumann's turbulent love-affair with the barely eighteen-year-old Ernestine von Fricken, though strong enough to lead to a secret engagement, lasted only a few months. Nevertheless, it managed to giv...