Partituras de Clásico dificil

In Schubert's cheerful E flat major Sonata, the listener is unaware that the composer struggled for a long time to arrive at its final version. Initial sketches date back to 1817, then still in a thre...

The B major Sonata numbers among Schubert's early piano sonatas. Composed in August 1817, it was not published until long after his death. The unusual key (for its time) shows the young Schubert's del...

The epithet "English Suites" - as with the "French Suites" - did not originate with Bach himself. In contrast to the six intimate French Suites, Bach's English Suites adopt a grander tone, each one op...

Liszt understood a "rhapsody" to signify the highest degree of musical freedom: a constant process of transformation and variation of themes and motifs, all bound up with constant shifts of emotion. A...

Volume I of Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage, entitled Suisse, is based on impressions he gathered during an extended sojourn in Switzerland in 1835/36. The most important piece of the collection, first p...

The Five Piano Pieces op. 23 are a transitional work in which Schönberg made the decisive step from free atonal music to composition based on tone rows, which however did not yet necessarily have to c...

Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue BWV 903 and 903a is one of his most fascinating works. It was apparently already greatly admired during his lifetime, for it survives in numerous copies which presen...

This rondo for piano was composed in 1794/95 and has become known primarily by its sobriquet "The rage over the lost penny". However, this did not originate with the composer himself, but rather added...

En el segundo volumen, Italie, publicado en 1858, de la trilogía Années de pèlerinage, los grandes nombres del arte y la poesía italianos ocupan un lugar central. Entre ellos se encontraba también Pet...

Charles Valentin Alkan centró toda su obra en el piano, y difícilmente se puede llenar la página más densamente de notas de lo que lo hizo Alkan. Con ello se cuenta entre los virtuosos del piano que d...

En el segundo volumen, "Italie", del tríptico "Années de pèlerinage", que vio la luz en 1858, los grandes nombres del arte y la poesía italianos ocupan un lugar central. Entre ellos figura también Dan...

La octava Rapsodia húngara, publicada en 1853, trata temas que Liszt conoció durante su visita a Hungría en 1846: una canción folclórica, una melodía de baile popular de la época y un csárdás. La nº 8...

La Rapsodia húngara n.° 10 10, publicada en 1853, se basa en una composición de Béni Egressy. En aquella época, el compositor nacional húngaro dirigía una de las más famosas bandas de los llamados git...

Admirador del "rey del vals" Johann Strauss, Ravel ya había planeado una composición de vals en 1906, cuya realización se vio obstaculizada por otros proyectos y por el estallido de la Primera Guerra...

Los Ocho estudios op. 42 de Alexander Scriabin fueron compuestos durante una fase de gran productividad. Durante muchos años, los compromisos docentes habían obstaculizado al compositor. Poco a poco,...

Debussy had originally planned the work with the Suite bergamasque (HN 381) in mind, but then published it separately in October 1904, with good reason. He was so taken with the brilliance and inventi...

The cycle with three movements, composed at the end of 1907 and published at the beginning of the next year, contains a singular innovation: Debussy notated the highly differentiated piano part that g...

Carl Maria von Weber's four piano sonatas, all composed in the decade 1812-1822, are considered the pillars of his not very extensive piano oeuvre. In these sonatas, Weber, who was one of the most ren...

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...

Liszt's 'Transcendental Studies' of 1852 are without doubt among the triumphs of virtuoso piano music, and their visionary language and poetic expression make them a milestone of the romantic age. Thi...

Thanks to its variety and playfulness, the so-called 'Gastein Sonata' is one of Schubert's most effective essays in the genre, posing considerable demands on technique while always lying well under th...

For half a century Henle's edition of the Beethoven sonatas - the 'New Testament' of the piano repertoire - has been universally recognized as the standard starting-point for any serious study of thes...

Beethoven's three Piano sonatas op. 2 were the first works in this genre to which he gave an opus number, thus signalling to the music world the special importance that he assigned to them. He wrote t...

Beethoven's three Piano sonatas op. 2 were the first works in this genre to which he gave an opus number, thus signalling to the music world the special importance that he assigned to them. He wrote t...