Breitkopf & Härtel Urtext

The unbroken popularity of Vanhal's sole double bass concerto in competitions and for practice and concert purposes is reason enough for us to publish the work in Breitkopf Urtext. The edition profits...

From the early years of the clarinet concerto Louis Spohr's First Clarinet Concerto was written in winter 1808/09, at a time when the clarinet had just established itself as an orchestral and solo in...

Louis Spohr's technically, extremely demanding concertos have long been part of clarinetists' standard repertoire. Like the first clarinet concerto, this second concerto was composed for the clarineti...

The Mozart expert Henrik Wiese edits the central work genre of Viennese classicism according to the current status of international Mozart research. The clean autograph of the Horn Concerto in Eb majo...

Created in cooperation with G. Henle Verlag Composed by Manuel de Falla during his lengthy residence in Paris, these three symphonic impressions for piano and orchestra are an expressive work bringing...

The Urtext edition of what is arguably the most often played double-bass work of all was long overdue. The work was previously available only in an abridged and arranged form. The edition departs from...

Just like Joseph Haydn's E flat major concerto Hob VIIe:1 (1796), Hummel's Trumpet Concerto in E major of 1803 was also written for the Viennese soloist Anton Weidinger, who performed on a keyed trump...

Many well-known violinists such as the dedicatee Pablo de Sarasate, together later with Eugène Ysaye and Jacques Thibaud, included in their repertoires Camille Saint-Saëns’ concert piece composed in 1...

The piano concerto in a minor stands out in Edvard Grieg's oeuvre. Besides this famous concerto, he composed only a few other large orchestral works. Because of its popularity even in Grieg's lifetime...

The edition supervised by Thomas Fritzsch goes back to the only authentic source, a copy from the late 19th century - its predecessors are lost to this day .

Édouard Lalo’s masterly Symphonie espagnole Op. 21 is undeniably one of the most sparkling and beloved gems of the Romantic violin repertoire. Radiating Iberian temperament, virtuosic brilliance, and...

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....

For the 'Fidelio' overture, composed at lightning speed in 1814, a copy of the score in the Austrian National Library today provides a reliable basis for a new text-critical edition.

Long misunderstood between Beethoven and Brahms Schumann's last concertante orchestral work was first performed only in 1937 and at the same time published in an editorially inadequate edition. It was...

The new edition is based on the well-known piano reduction by the composer and organist Ernst Friedrich Richter, which Breitkopf & Härtel published in Leipzig in 1845. At that time, the publisher had...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony in D major, K. 504—the celebrated "Prague" Symphony—is widely regarded as one of the boldest and most mature orchestral masterworks of the Classical era. Dispensing...

The premiere of 'Luonnotar' took place on September 10, 1913 at the Shire Hall in Gloucester. Luonnotar' is not only Sibelius' most important work for Ackté, it is one of his most important works ever...

Immerse yourself in the mesmerizing sonic world of French Impressionism: With "La Mer (Trois Esquisses Symphoniques)", Claude Debussy created one of the most significant and vividly colored orchestral...

Urtext nach der Leipziger Mendelssohn-Gesamtausgabe 28' The land of artists is Germany after all, Mendelssohn wrote in 1831 of his trip from Italy, but here 'is the land of art', and so the 22-year-ol...

La edición Urtext de Jean-François Monnard es la primera edición de La Valse que compara todas las fuentes pertinentes. Se ha utilizado como fuente la primera edición de la partitura, publicada en 192...

En el prefacio, Monnard ilumina la estética sonora de Ravel sobre el trasfondo de la recepción en concierto y las grabaciones históricas. Además, el editor ofrece una visión de las ideas de Ravel sobr...

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...

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 '...

That Schumann truly dug his heels into symphonic creation becomes clear at the latest when we look not only at his four well-known symphonies, but also at the works between the genres, such as the Ove...

The question 'Why add music to such perfect poetry?' preoccupied Schumann long and intensively. His first compositional approach to Goethes 'Faust' began in 1844, but it was not until 1851 that he fin...