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The composition cost him his sleep. In October 1842, when Schumann had finished his piano quintet in a short period of time, he was physically and emotionally drained. The work in no way reflects this...

Fingering: Klaus Schilde With part for clarinet in B flat/A Alexander Zemlinsky is mainly known for his operas and orchestral songs with their opulent late Romantic orchestration. His earlier, inspire...

In two private performances for Prince Lobkowitz in the spring of 1804, two new works by Beethoven were played for the first time: his Third Symphony op. 55 and the Triple Concerto op. 56 for piano, v...

'In the evening we played Robert's E-flat major Quartet for the first time ... and I was once again truly delighted at this beautiful and so youthful work', enthused Clara Schumann in 1842. In prepara...

This is Mozart's only piece of chamber music for the oboe - and no oboist would want to be without it! Like the Clarinet Quintet, the Oboe Quartet of 1781 was written for a friend: Friedrich Ramm, a m...

No serious musician and no serious orchestra can ignore this new Urtext edition of a major work of concerto literature, since the music text frequently diverges from that of previous editions. All the...

At certain points it will be like a serious song, at others like a happy dance …” This was how Dvo?ák described the work which he was composing at the time to a friend in 1890. The word 'Dumka” (plura...

Max Bruch composed these eight, highly romantic pieces for his son Max Felix, a talented clarinettist. In order to enable the work to be played more widely, Bruch arranged the clarinet part for violin...

No romantic poetry and no concrete fairytale figure occasioned Schumann to write this composition. Today, we can assume that the title of the pieces, originally entitled 'Romances', was merely suppose...

With his 1st Horn Concerto, the only 18-year-old Richard Strauss achieved a ravishing stroke of genius. To this day, the concerto is loved all over the world (not only) by horn players and, along with...

As if looking back on his youth toward the end of his life, Richard Strauss wrote a second concerto for horn and orchestra, again in Eb major, around sixty years after his first concerto for horn. Thi...

Similar to Schumann's 'Concert Piece for Four Horns' op. 86 (HN 1138), Saint-Saëns' 'Morceau de Concert' was also written with the idea of exhausting the technical possibilities of a new valve horn co...

Even though the majority of Beethoven's wind chamber music works were composed for specific occasions with prescribed scorings, their importance is not limited by their functional nature. Beethoven al...

Mozart's 'daily bread' for horn players in a particularly delightful Urtext edition. The fragmentary Rondo is not only offered in the well-known Süßmayr version, but also in a very stylistically confi...

Carl Maria von Weber's Concerto in f minor is among the compositions of first rank for solo clarinet and is permanently established in the world's concert repertoire. For purposes of comparison, Norbe...

El compositor y virtuoso del violín Johann Stamitz no sólo estableció la mundialmente famosa escuela de Mannheim en el siglo XVIII, sino que es conocido sobre todo entre los clarinetistas por haber si...

The most beautiful and significant clarinet concerto in the history of music is now appearing in a Henle urtext edition. The piano reduction is accompanied by two separate parts: an urtext edition of...

Now the Concertino and the First Clarinet Concerto are about to be followed by Weber's Second Concerto in E-flat major, edited by Norbert Gertsch. Once again, the piano reduction contrasts the origina...

For our Urtext edition of the Clarinet Sonata op. 167 we were able to consult the autograph for the first time. 'At the moment I am putting my last ounce of energy into giving seldom considered instru...

In 1894 Johannes Brahms asked the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld to visit him during his beloved summer sojourn in Ischl, adding "It would be really wonderful if you brought your B flat clarinet with y...

The Clarinet Concerto in c minor of 1809 is the very first work by Louis Spohr to grace our catalogue. The first in a series of four concertos written by Spohr for the virtuoso Johann Simon Hermstedt...

Louis Spohr's concertos have long been a standard feature in the clarinet repertoire, but up to now they have suffered due to a lack of reliable editions. In order to fill this gap, G. Henle Publisher...

In 1849, Schumann gifted chamber music works to three wind instruments: the clarinet with the 'Drei Fantasiestücke' op. 73, the horn with the Adagio and Allegro op. 70, and the oboe with these 'Drei R...

The Oboe Sonata op. 166 was the first of three wind sonatas that Saint-Saëns wrote in his fi nal year. Throughout his life he had been more familiar with keyboard and stringed instruments, so the comp...

As concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for many decades, violin virtuoso Ferdinand David was a close friend of Felix Mendelssohn, who wrote his famous Violin Concerto for him. David was...