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Whoever has experienced a major pianist performing this sonata live (the slow 'Andante cantabile' middle movement is occasionally played as an encore) knows the grandeur and effect of this C major wor...

From Mozart's letters we know that he made firm plans in the summer of 1789 to earn money by composing six new easy piano sonatas for Princess Friederike of Prussia. Only this one was written, however...

The op. 7 Sonata was Grieg's first major piano work. While traditional in form and structure, its originality is expressed through the incorporation of elements from Scandinavian dances and folk tunes...

Reger's 'Five Humoresques' follow in the footsteps of the nineteenth-century genre inaugurated by Robert Schumann's 'Humoresque', op. 20. Occasionally Reger gives vent to high-spirited good humor, as...

Robert Schumann was fascinated by the violin virtuoso Nicolò Paganini, as were many composers of the time. When he was planning a piano tutor in 1832/33 that was to include his own works as well as th...

From early childhood, Max Reger grew into the tradition of artisanal, practical composition in which Johann Sebastian Bach became his role model. Traditional forms such as canon, fugue, passacaglia an...

With this Urtext edition of easy original dances, minuets and marches by Joseph Haydn, young piano pupils will surely find their way into the extensive piano oeuvre of this great master of Viennese Cl...

In Western Europe and soon thereafter in America, Peter Tchaikovsky became perhaps the best-known, most fêted of all Russian composers. In his extensive piano oeuvre, he provided a significant contrib...

The 'Little Lyrical Pieces' - which is how the title still reads in the earliest editions - rank among Grieg's most popular works. He had just turned 24 when these delightful and easily playable minia...

The idea behind the 'Classical Piano Sonatas' of the preclassical and classical eras is to help the pianist find his way more easily within the profusion of literature in this genre, the most importan...

Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata op. 143 in a minor was composed in 1823 after his large 'Wanderer Fantasy'. With its formal cohesion and mature originality, this a-minor Sonata initiated a new phase in...

Grieg's second book of Lyric Pieces was published 16 years after its predecessor, but immediately reprised the huge success of the former collection. Interestingly enough, the original title pages of...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his five large piano concertos over a period of twenty years. His Fifth Concerto in E-flat major op. 73, first published in 1810/11, is here presented in a piano reductio...

In contrast to Mozart, Haydn was not a keyboard virtuoso. He certainly conducted his orchestral works from the harpsichord, and also performed his own piano sonatas, but any ambition to be a concertiz...

This single edition - it is number 10 in the first volume of the Préludes (HN 383) of 1910 - shows the extent of Debussy's imagination as he conjures up the old city of Ys that has sunk into the sea....

The extraordinary popularity of the first two books of Lyric Pieces (opp. 12 and 38) was interpreted differently by Grieg and his publisher. Whereas Grieg would have liked to call his third book 'Spri...

Spanish music with a universal touch': that is what Isaac Albéniz set out to compose, and he brought it off to perfection in his Iberia Suite. At last all four 'books' of this late-romantic masterpiec...

Since their publication as Urtext editions, the first two volumes of 'Iberia' issued by G. Henle Publishers have become an established part of the pianists' world. Now comes the third book, in which A...

With the fourth and last book, our blue Urtext editions of the 'Iberia' cycle are now complete. Albéniz had greatly struggled to complete the work because he was very ill. Yet he was able to hand over...

Max Reger's powerful organ work is published for the first time in the previously unknown authentic version for piano four hands. The manuscript only came into the possession of the Reger Institute in...

Not every listener will immediately realize that this piece, which begins in the style of a dream-like nocturne with one of Chopin's most enchanting melodic ideas, originated as a piano etude. But upo...

The Nocturne op. 37 no. 2, composed in 1839, is a perfect example of the rich, pearling cascades of thirds and sixths that keep Chopin's piano works at the top of the popularity list and as beloved to...

Chopin's furioso c-minor etude has become famous as the 'Revolutionary Etude'. According to unsubstantiated legend, the composer wrote it in September 1831 when news of the crushing of the Polish upri...

Chopin applied himself the waltz genre throughout his life, and created a broad spectrum of musical possibilities from profoundly melancholic and atmospheric mood-pieces to showpieces of extraordinary...

Chopin's Polonaise in A major op. 40 no. 1 is better known as the 'Military Polonaise'. Indeed, the brisk rhythm, the 'drum roll' in the middle section and the heroic demeanour of the work in general...