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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...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy created a standard work with his final violin concerto in E minor op. 64 MWV O 14 that is now firmly established in today's concert repertoire. When in 1838 the composer in...

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his 'Don Juan') of his reputation and above all of his 'value' as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by...

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...

Joachim Raff’s celebrated first cello concerto is only gradually being rediscovered today. This is astounding, taking into account both the quality of the composition as well as its enthusiastic recep...

Obra de repertorio indispensable; primera versión crítica; dos versiones de la balada incluidas en partitura y reducción para piano Carl Reinecke estaba interesado en explorar la música y no sólo en "...

El oratorio de Pascua BWV 249 se estrenó el Domingo de Pascua de 1725 con el texto "Venid, daos prisa y corred". En el cómputo de la nueva BWV, se trata ya de la BWV 249.3, tras dos cantatas de felici...

Las seis últimas y musicalmente más importantes sinfonías de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart en la edición Urtext de Breitkopf & Härtel. Los editores Cliff Eisen y Henrik Wiese presentan un texto musical auté...

Mit dem Oktett Es-dur op. 20 wird in der Leipziger Mendelssohn-Gesamtausgabe eine zentrale Komposition veröffentlicht, zu der die Herausgeber mit einer bisher ungedruckten, authentischen Werkfassung a...

Sibelius’s oeuvre contains four string quartets. They appeared over a long time span and in different phases of his professional career. Most of his early compositions were chamber music, and he compo...

Ein sensationeller Fund beim Revidieren: BWV 1067 in der a-moll-Urfassung für Violine

In the summer of 1939, Béla Bartók travels to Switzerland to compose the 'Divertimento for String Orchestra' in just two weeks as the guest of his patron Paul Sacher. Inspired by the hospitable atmosp...

Das Violinkonzert e-moll op. 64 und die Sonate f-moll op. 4 sind die einzigen Werke für Solovioline, die Mendelssohn zu Lebzeiten drucken ließ. In seinem Gesamtschaffen finden sich jedoch weitere abge...

Edición de fuentes puras (sin mezcla de tradiciones diferentes)Con textos sobre fuentes, órganos, cronología, uso de claves, categorización litúrgica, así como notas individuales detalladas, incl. eje...

Hasslers Liedsammlung 'Lustgarten Neuer Teutscher Gesäng' (1601) war so beliebt, dass sie um 1640 vollständig für Tasteninstrumente eingerichtet wurde. Martin Böcker hat für den Erstdruck 25 wirkungsv...

Although the 'fantasia' was already considered as old-fashioned around 1700, this genre exerted a particular fascination on the very young Bach - he had since relocated to Köthen - and the experienced...

Urtext - Critical Source Edition editada por Harald Vogel: edición con fuentes puras (sin mezclas de tradiciones diferentes) completo aparato textual (vols. I/2, II & III/2) con textos sobre fuentes,...