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Around 40 minutes in length and scored for diverse instruments including horns, trumpets and timpani, the Serenade in D major by Johannes Brahms comes close to the symphony. Written in 1858/59 by the...

In his Serenade no. 2 op. 16, composed in 1858-60, Brahms keeps to the usual, smaller, scoring for this genre, using pairs of winds and horns as well as low strings (no violins!). His friend Clara Sch...

Johannes Brahms only approached the symphony genre slowly and with a great many qualms. After he had revised and rejected numerous earlier attempts, he did not introduce himself to the public as a sym...

Debussy's Rhapsody was commissioned by the wealthy amateur Elise Hall, who paid the composer a considerable sum in advance. Yet work on it was not easy; following his death all that existed was a fini...

Camille Saint-Saëns was always trying to expand the rather sparse repertoire for chamber music for wind instruments, something that is not least also shown by his three late wind sonatas for oboe, cla...

When Beethoven visited the director of music at the cathedral in Linz, Franz Xaver Glöggl, in autumn 1812, the latter asked his guest to 'compose socalled Equali for 4 trombones for All Souls' Day 2 N...

Masterly and full of new ideas': thus the Swedish ambassadorial secretary Silverstolpe when he first heard these pieces in 1797. Haydn's friend, the music historian Charles Burney, reported in 1799 th...

El modelo inmediato de esta primera obra importante de música de cámara de Ravel fue el Cuarteto de cuerda de Debussy de 1892/93. Sin embargo, la composición, escrita en 1902/03, ya contiene rasgos in...

Alban Berg's String Quartet can be considered to be one of the founding works of the Second Viennese School. Already composed in 1910 and first published in 1920, it was the last composition the 25-ye...

Mozart's 'Kleine Nachtmusik' is surely one of the most popular works of so-called classical music. Although his manuscript is not completely free of corrections, it is still undoubtedly one of Mozart'...

Mozart's Kleine Nachtmusik' is certainly one of the most popular works of so-called 'classical music'. Although his manuscript is not completely free of corrections, it is nevertheless undoubtedly one...

Mozart's Kleine Nachtmusik' is certainly one of the most popular works of so-called 'classical music'. Although his manuscript is not completely free of corrections, it is nevertheless undoubtedly one...

Mozart's Kleine Nachtmusik' is certainly one of the most popular works of so-called 'classical music'. Although his manuscript is not completely free of corrections, it is nevertheless undoubtedly one...

Mozart's Kleine Nachtmusik' is certainly one of the most popular works of so-called 'classical music'. Although his manuscript is not completely free of corrections, it is nevertheless undoubtedly one...

En las primeras interpretaciones de esta sonata, compuesta entre 1920 y 1922, incluso los amigos íntimos del compositor se sintieron perturbados: Después de los sonidos embriagadores de La Valse, la p...

While he was still in Bonn, perhaps in 1792 the year he departed for Vienna, Beethoven wrote this Duo for Violin and Violoncello. We do not know whether he ever completed his work as only the beginnin...

Complete Scientific Edition with Critical Report, Division VI, Volume 5, Linen

Wissenschaftliche Gesamtausgabe, Critical Report, paperback, Series XII, Volume 2

Alban Berg's String Quartet can be considered to be one of the founding works of the Second Viennese School. Already composed in 1910 and first published in 1920, it was the last composition the 25-ye...

Mozart's 'Kleine Nachtmusik' is surely one of the most popular works of so-called classical music. Although his manuscript is not completely free of corrections, it is still undoubtedly one of Mozart'...

When Dvořák suddenly became internationally famous in 1878 with his Slavonic Dances, he received, among other things, a request for a new string quartet from Jean Becker, the first violinist of the re...

In autumn 1895, after returning from New York once and for all, Dvorák took up his former position as teacher at the Prague Conservatory. This clearly had an inspiring impact on him because in the spa...

The Sextet in B-flat major was already judged to be 'one of the most beautiful works by this young composer' after its initial performances in early 1861. It was popular with both public and press, an...

Brahms's First String Sextet became very popular after its publication in 1861, yet his publisher Simrock still hesitated when the composer offered him a second such work in 1865, 'in the same cheerfu...

This volume brings together Mozart's youthful attempts at this later so central genre of the string quartet: the astonishing 'Lodi Quartet' K. 80 by the only fourteen-year-old composer, the three 'Qua...