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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...

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...

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...

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...

For the elaboration of his eight Spanish Dances (HN1370), Sarasate employed extant material - folk melodies or songs by well-known composers - which he then blended with his own delightful brand of to...

Después de que Elgar lograra un gran éxito con la publicación de Salut d'amour, en 1889 intentó establecerse en Londres y vivir como artista independiente. Sin embargo, no consiguió afianzarse, por lo...

Tras regresar de Londres al campo, Edward Elgar se ganó la vida a partir de 1890 principalmente como profesor de violín, aunque por necesidad, ya que no podía vivir de la composición. Su vida cotidian...

Johannes Brahms began to manifest a keen interest in the genre of the violin sonata at an early age. In fall 1853 he offered the Leipzig publisher a violin sonata in a minor. The work was turned down,...

The names of the composers included here read like a 'Who is Who' of the heyday of Bohemian musicians and composers from the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. They include F. Benda, J. Stamitz,...

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...

As with Joseph Haydn's violin concerto in C major Hob. Vlla:1, the concerto in A major Hob.Vlla:3 breathes a certain Baroque spirit that is full of verve, technical brilliance and a beautiful 'Italian...

These three separately transmitted sonatas hide some attribution problems. BWV 1020 (the Sonata in g minor) is quite possibly by Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and today is mostly played on the flut...

Urtext edition, paperback with one marked and one unmarked string part At the first performances of the sonata, written between 1920 and 1922, even close friends of the composer were disturbed: after...

'I would gladly have done some more fiddling, but I was accompanied so badly that it gave me the colic.' Thus Mozart, writing to his father on 16 October 1777. He would probably have taken great pleas...

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...

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...

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...

'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...