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The violin part was edited by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, who published further Urtext editions by Mozart with Henle Verlag (including the complete sonatas for piano and violin, HN77, 78, 79, 80). The caden...

In 1838 Robert Schumann complained: 'The piano is becoming too narrow for me. I often hear in my current compositions a lot of things that I can hardly indicate'. Thus, in 1840, Schumann dedicated him...

This is not only Mozart's first concerto for the violin but his first concerto altogether. He composed it at the age of 17, writing it in Salzburg in 1773 two years before his other four violin concer...

Once again, Henle can boast of an important new addition to its Pantheon of great composers: Ernest Chausson. Based on a novella by the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev, the Poème for violin and orchest...

The Sonata in G major owes its epithet 'Rain Song Sonata' to two melodies from Brahms' 'Rain Songs' op. 59 nos. 3 and 4 which are quoted at the beginning of the last movement. An ornamental leaf with...

They are in a light style, intended more for use in the home than for concert performance'. Thus Smetana described these two duets in which he memorialised his Bohemian homeland. It is a fact, though...

A pearl in the romantic repertoire, Bruch's 'Romance” has long occupied a permanent place in its original version for viola, whether in lessons or on the concert stage. Our edition is the first to tak...

There is no other chamber-music genre for which Mozart produced so many works - see the sonatas and variations - than that of the duos for piano and violin. He spent a considerable amount of time with...

In 1849 Schumann endowed three wind instruments with chamber music works: the clarinet with the 'Three Fantasy Pieces' op. 73, the horn with the 'Adagio and Allegro' op. 70 and the oboe with the prese...

The genesis of Berg's Violin Concerto in 1935 is shrouded in tragedy. He had only just finished making the first sketches when Manon Gropius - the daughter of Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler, with whom...

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his ten violin sonatas during a period of just fifteen years, between 1797 and 1812. Using our carefully revised two-volume edition of the complete sonatas, the performer ca...

Fauré composed his violin sonata in 1875/76 and in so doing opened up a new tradition for this genre in French music. In a review, Saint-Saëns expressed his enthusiasm for this work by his friend and...

'For me, Sebastian Bach is the be-all and end-all of music; true progress lies and resides in him alone.' It was with these programmatic words that Max Reger prefaced his answer to a survey 'What does...

When the 'Palais du Trocadéro' was built in 1878 on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Paris, the first large concert organ in France was given pride of place in the 'Salle des Fêtes'. Franck wro...

Johannes Brahms's organ works in a sense 'frame' his whole oeuvre. He wrote several preludes and fugues and the chorale prelude 'O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid' in the mid-1850s, at a time when he was mak...

Robert Schumann revered Johann Sebastian Bach and his polyphonic style throughout his life. Thus the 'Six Studies in Canonic Form' op. 56 and 'Four Sketches' op. 58 for pedal piano, which are reminisc...

Apart from his organ sonatas, Felix Mendelssohn also composed numerous other works for the king of instruments. The present volume focuses on a selection of eight works from Mendelssohn's maturity, in...

Max Reger, the creator of forbiddingly difficult organ music, could also take a different tack. His 'Thirty Little Chorale Preludes' are intended for semiprofessional organists always on the lookout f...

Liszt composed this virtuoso work for the dedication of the refurbished organ in Merseburg Cathedral. The manuscript was, however, only completed after the inaugural concert and the first edition was...

Every classically trained saxophonist knows and plays this work: with his Saxophone Quartet, composed in 1932, Alexander Glazunov established virtually out of nowhere a new genre and helped the then u...

Our piano reduction is based on the study edition HN 9989 that is being published simultaneously, giving access to Debussy's short score in printed form for the first time. The composer afforded the s...

Leoš Janá?ek composed his Suite for wind instruments Mládí (in English youth) in 1924, so when he was over 70. Numerous sources still survive for this work, making it difficult to establish the defini...

For a long time, Swedish composer Bernhard Henrik Crusell was considered an insider tip among clarinetists, but his concertos have now found their way onto concert stages. No wonder, given the ravishi...

Following our edition of the Grand Concerto in f minor op. 5 (HN1209), we are expanding our series of Crusell's clarinet concertos to include the one in B flat major op. 11. The Swedish composer was h...

Beethoven's importance as the creator of monumental orchestral works and of substantial chamber music and solo sonatas is so great that his rich song oeuvre is often hardly even noticed. But his Liede...