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The difficult balancing act between the requirements of practical usefulness and philological meticulousness has been accomplished at a level that sets the bar for comparable efforts frighteningly hig...

The importance of the genre "overture" for Robert Schumann is shown by the creation chronology of his only opera. The composer notes "overture thoughts" as the first keyword in the household book and...

When and where was Mozart's flute concerto written and for whom? 1777 or 1778, Salzburg or Mannheim? How much did Ferdinand Dejean actually pay, only 96 or the promised 200 florins?

Urtext despite carelessly notated autograph Mozart's late Symphony in E-flat major was composed in 1788, presumably for academy concerts that did not materialize. The new edition is based on the only...

Discover a masterpiece of Romantic concerto literature: Robert Schumann's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, WoO 1 captivates with its emotional depth, melancholic beauty, and bold harmonic...

Urtext of the 'Revolution Overture' The overture to 'Hermann and Dorothea' is Schumann's only compositional result to Goethe's verse epic. Originally he planned a whole opera, then a Singspiel, finall...

La edición Urtext de Jean-François Monnard es la primera edición de La Valse que compara todas las fuentes pertinentes. La primera impresión de la partitura, publicada en 1921, sirvió de modelo.

The score and orchestral parts are available for purchase for the first time in a new edition of La Mer.

Immerse yourself in the expressive world of Romanticism with the captivating Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40. This timeless masterpiece for piano and orchestra enthralls listeners with its gri...

Urtext-Neuland: Die Ouvertüre Leonore Nr. 3 To this day, the two central Fidelio overtures are performed from musical texts that date back to the inaccurate and erroneous first printings of the parts....

... without a warm feeling of love' 'Tchaikovsky urtext' is no longer a rarity in the Breitkopf orchestral catalog. Polina Vajdman edits an extremely popular repertoire work, which the composer himsel...

Un 'fuego artificial' en Urtext Después de 'Boléro' y 'La Valse', una tercera obra de Ravel, muy interpretada, se incluye en el programa orquestal de Breitkopf - y esto, por supuesto, en una edición '...

The cycle Seven Early Songs, based on texts by Lenau, Rilke, Storm and other poets, was compiled in 1928, more than twenty years after the individual songs were composed. Alban Berg selected seven of...

Vals de los sueños 'À l'exemple de Schubert' - Ravel reinventa el vals, inspirándose en Liszt, Chopin, Schumann y Chabrier, transformando los giros rapsódicos de la danza y lanzándola al siglo XX. Rav...

En su Hommage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel no se dirige tanto al propio Couperin como a la música francesa del siglo XVIII. Por otra parte, el editor Jean-Francois Monnard expone en su prefacio cómo...

First the general news on the consistently closed group of works: with the new edition of the G minor Symphony, the three late Mozart works K. 543, 550 and 551 are now available in the Breitkopf Urtex...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...

Of all his symphonies, Mahler gave the Fourth, his favorite and problem child, his most particular attention. 'The Heavenly Life,' a humoresque composed in 1892 for soprano and piano, which he already...

Desde su estreno ha suscitado reacciones apasionadas. A día de hoy, la Quinta de Mahler sigue siendo un trabajo duro tanto para los intérpretes como para los oyentes, además de un problema (casi) irre...

Tod und Verklärung marks a turning point in Richard Strauss's corpus of tone poems: Even before the November 1889 premiere of his previous work Don Juan, Strauss had finished his third work in this ge...

Of all his symphonies, Mahler gave the Fourth, his favorite and problem child, his most particular attention. 'The Heavenly Life,' a humoresque composed in 1892 for soprano and piano, which he already...

Desde su estreno ha suscitado reacciones apasionadas. A día de hoy, la Quinta de Mahler sigue siendo un trabajo duro tanto para los intérpretes como para los oyentes, además de un problema (casi) irre...

In the fall of 1909 Sibelius wrote in his diary: 'At Koli! One of the greatest impressions in my life. Plans [for] 'La Montagne'!' These plans proved to be for the Fourth Symphony. The composition pro...

The famous Valse triste grew out of the incidental music to Arvid Järnefelts drama Kuolema (Death). After the first staged performances in December 1903 at the Finnish National Theater in Helsinki, Si...