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La Biblioteca Estatal de Baviera, en Múnich, hizo en 2007 un descubrimiento sensacional: se encontró un Lied para voz (soprano) y piano de Franz Liszt, hasta entonces desconocido, que él mismo había e...

This first edition of the 'Regenlied' cycle is only available from G. Henle Publishers. In the preface, Michael Struck, an eminent Brahms scholar, writes about the distinctiveness of the work, until n...

The ups and downs of disappointed love: who could fail to sympathize with the feelings that Schumann immortalized in his song cycle Dichterliebe after Heine? The pieces range from hopeful anticipation...

As with the 'Dichterliebe' (HN549), 'Frauenliebe und Leben' (HN547) or the song cycles with texts by Heine and Eichendorff (HN548 and 550), the 'Kerner Cycle op. 35' was written in 1840, Schumann's 'L...

As the new house composer at the Theater an der Wien, Beethoven had an opportunity to perform an oratorio during Passiontide in 1803. In a very short space of time he drew up his one and only work for...

When Haydn stopped in Passau on his second journey to England, he heard a vocal version of his own orchestral work 'The Seven Last Words'. It had been made by the Kapellmeister at Passau cathedral Jos...

Haydn returned from his second trip to England in 1795 deeply impressed by the performances of Handel in Westminster Abbey with their large number of musicians. In his pocket he had an English librett...

We are marking Joseph Haydn's anniversary year (the bicentenary of his death) in style. We are not only publishing very affordable study scores of all of his oratorios, following the musical text in t...

The Trois Chorals are amongst Franck's best-known works. They are characterised by great religious solemnity and were intended more for the concert organ as far as their dimensions are concerned. Many...

At the end of the 18th century, the town of Cádiz in southern Spain provided the backdrop for a Passion to mark Christ's hour of death; its focal point was the reading and interpretation of Christ's l...

Los dos Rondos op. 51 se escribieron de forma independiente y el editor de Beethoven los unificó en un solo opus. La primera de estas obras de 1797 se hizo rápidamente popular por su combinación de me...

Over 50 internationally celebrated pianists were invited to adopt one Haydn piano sonata each and provide it with their personal fingerings - a 'who's who' on the contemporary piano scene. G. Henle Pu...

Over 50 internationally celebrated pianists were invited to adopt one Haydn piano sonata each and provide it with their personal fingerings - a 'who's who' on the contemporary piano scene. G. Henle Pu...

Durante su juventud, Richard Strauss compuso un gran número de obras para piano solo, entre ellas numerosas sonatas. Sin embargo, sólo la Sonata en si menor le pareció lo bastante importante como para...

The Concerto in Bb major K. 595 is not only Mozart's very last in the series of very important works for piano and orchestra. It is generally regarded as his most mature, perhaps even his most beautif...

Composed in 1800, this work was published two years later under the title 'Grande Sonate' in order to demonstrate the resumption of an earlier, four-movement sonata model. Beethoven proudly announced...

This masterpiece's famous nickname 'Appassionata' (the passionate) does not stem from Beethoven, but was assigned to the sonata by posterity. However, it could hardly be more appropriate! Beethoven's...

Schubert's mighty G-major Sonata in the definitive Henle edition (single edition taken from volume 2 of the Piano Sonatas, HN 148).?

Whose ears are not instantly filled with the dreamy flute solo when Debussy's 'Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune' is mentioned? Very few people know that before he wrote the orchestral score Debussy m...

The Scottish General Meredith Read called on Debussy in 1890 with a rather unusual request: Read acquainted the composer with a traditional bagpipe melody from his home country and asked him to write...

In summer 1891 Scriabin hurt his right hand through too much practice. For this reason he cultivated his playing with his left hand for which he composed his Prélude et Nocturne op. 9 in 1894. Both pi...

Scriabin's ideal of music as part of a synthesis of the arts, raising people to a higher level of consciousness, is particularly apparent in his late work 'Vers la flamme' op. 72. The poème opens with...

El primer movimiento de la Sonatina para piano de Maurice Ravel fue escrito probablemente en 1903. En cualquier caso, el compositor la interpretó el 8 de enero de 1904 en una velada celebrada en el sa...

The Six Sonatas K. 279-284 were probably written around the beginning of 1775. Mozart refers to them in letters that he sent to his father from his trip to Paris (1777-79). In these letters he often r...