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The serenade flourished in Mozart’s era, but with Brahms the genre experienced a new surge in popularity in the 19th century. Dvořák’s cheerful and relaxed op. 22 came into being in 1875, during a ver...

Elgar’s Serenade for Strings was composed in 1892 and represents the first of his works with which the 35-year-old composer was truly satisfied. Whether, as often claimed, it derives from three pieces...

Elgar’s Serenade for Strings was composed in 1892 and represents the first of his works with which the 35-year-old composer was truly satisfied. Whether, as often claimed, it derives from three pieces...

El motivo de la composición, descrita como una "suite al estilo antiguo", fue el 200 cumpleaños del poeta noruego-danés Ludvik Holberg (1684-1754), que se celebró en Bergen con varios actos festivos....

El motivo de la composición, descrita como una "suite al estilo antiguo", fue el 200 cumpleaños del poeta noruego-danés Ludvik Holberg (1684-1754), que se celebró en Bergen con varios actos festivos....

Al igual que sus obras hermanas (BWV 1052-1059), el Concierto para clave n.º 3 (BWV 1054) de Johann Sebastian Bach fue compuesto inicialmente para otro instrumento solista. 3 (BWV 1054) fue compuesto...

Ya en su temprana juventud, Mozart hizo sus primeras incursiones en el género del cuarteto de cuerda, la disciplina suprema de la música de cámara. Las tres obras en tres movimientos K. 136-138, a las...

Debussy escribió estas dos breves danzas por encargo de la casa Pleyel, que deseaba utilizar nombres célebres para comercializar su nueva arpa cromática. Las danzas también pueden tocarse sin problema...

Debussy escribió estas dos breves danzas por encargo de la casa Pleyel, que deseaba utilizar nombres célebres para comercializar su nueva arpa cromática. Las danzas también pueden tocarse sin problema...

One of the best-loved trumpet concertos today is actually a horn concerto: Neruda composed it in about 1750 at the Dresden Court, where he met the greatest horn virtuosos of the day. As a result, the...

Encouraged by Muzio Clementi, the head of a distinguished publishing house in London, Beethoven transformed his Violin Concerto into a Piano Concerto, but retained the cadenzas to the first and third...

Beethoven wrote ten sonatas for violin and piano during a period of only fifteen years (from 1797 to 1812). It is impressive how in this genre he again pursued the principle of finding a new model for...

Instrumental virtuosity and the new impulses of baroque thought are to be found in the solo sonatas that came into being in Italy from the early decades of the 17th century. Both aspects have been tak...

Solo sonatas written in Italy in the early decades of the 17th century dazzle with originality, imaginative impulses and instrumental virtuosity - aspects that have all been taken into consideration w...

The famous, wonderful first of Schumann's three late violin sonatas, that in a minor op. 105, was written in just a few days in September 1851. In regard to publication of the present edition, violini...

The 'little' D-major Violin Concerto has no need to hide behind its 'big sister', K. 218. Not only does it challenge the player's technique, it's a masterpiece of the first order. Henle's edition stan...

Brahms' only violin concerto was given a very warm reception by his contemporaries and has been an important piece in the violin repertoire ever since. It bears witness to Brahms' fruitful collaborati...

This substantial volume contains all of the works that Tchaikovsky composed or arranged himself for violin and piano. The three larger violin works opp. 26, 34, and 42, which G. Henle Publishers also...

The name Oskar Rieding may seldom appear in concert programmes, but for students of the violin it is all the more familiar. To this day, his short concert pieces for violin and piano, written at the s...

With this one-movement Concertino, Oskar Rieding turns to already advanced students of the violin. Aside from playing in third position, it also requires a considerable degree of dexterity and mastery...

At the time, Mozart's genius - recognised at an early age - could only be explained as being God-given. Wolfgang Amadeus and his sister Maria Anna, older by five years, were admired as being 'Wunderki...

Leopold Mozart was only able to understand his son's musical genius in terms of it being a God-given wonder: 'That my boy ... knows all of this with his 8 years that could be expected of a man of fort...

In autumn 1765 Mozart's family was in Holland, not least at the request of Princess Caroline von Nassau-Weilburg. The fame of the prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus had already reached her so that she 'had an e...

Schumann's second violin sonata was written in October/November 1851, only a few weeks after the first work for this combination of instruments (HN 428). The highly virtuosic sonata, especially in the...

Grieg's first Violin Sonata breathes youthful freshness and captivates with its Norwegian folk style. In terms of technique, it makes far fewer demands than Grieg's later violin sonatas and is thus al...