Partituras de Henle para piano

Whenever one speaks about Beethoven's piano music, it is usually his sonatas that come to mind. However, his other works for this instrument are of no less significance. Thus it is not a coincidence t...

Next to the polonaises and the waltzes, the mazurkas are the third dance form which Chopin cultivated in his music. They constitute the largest of these three groups, boasting nearly 60 pieces. Chopin...

A menudo se hace referencia a las 32 sonatas para piano de Beethoven como el "Nuevo Testamento de la Música" (Hans von Bülow). Desde la publicación de nuestra edición completa en dos volúmenes, los ex...

Cuando Mendelssohn se enteró por su editor Nikolaus Simrock de que iba a recibir un honorario adicional por una parte de sus "Lieder ohne Worte", le agradeció efusivamente este regalo. Sin embargo, el...

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are often referred to as the 'New Testament of Music' (Hans von Bülow). Since the publication of our complete edition in two volumes, experts have praised it as being the...

Although it was only published in 1905, Debussy made it clear that this was an early work by writing the date of composition '1890” on the proofs. He had sold the manuscript, now lost, to the publishe...

After several single pieces and several smaller piano cycles, in 1910 the recently composed Préludes, Premier Livre was published. The title draws on a traditional form, following Chopin's example. In...

Alexander Scriabin occupies a special position among the Russian piano composers around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Already in his early works, he went beyond the Chopinesque traditions...

Bach's Six Partitas form what is presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history. Bach was aware of the weightiness of his cycle as he initially had these multi-moveme...

The genesis of one of Mozart's best-loved piano works, his Fantasy in d minor, is still shrouded in darkness. Even Mozart's sister, who came across the work in 1807 through the first edition, was asto...

In 1735 Bach published the Italian Concerto, presented here in a revised separate edition, together with the French Overture in the second part of his “Clavier Übung”. The two works were intended to r...

In spring 1865 Brahms surprised his friends and acquaintances with 16 little waltzes for piano four-hands. He informed his friend the well-known critic Eduard Hanslick about this in April 1866, saying...

In 1836 Chopin introduced the term 'ballad' into piano music with the publication of his Ballad op. 23, although up to then it had only been used in literature and in vocal music. Indeed, all four of...

'As far as the Scenes from Childhood are concerned, I owe them one of the liveliest pleasures of my life.' These words were uttered by none other than Franz Liszt. In the evenings he often enjoyed pla...

In his virtuosic piano arrangement of Schumann's 'Widmung' ('Du meine Seele, du mein Herz'), Franz Liszt transformed this intimate song into a dramatic declaration that reaches its powerful climax at...

As well as Tchaikovsky's famous Piano Concerto, his extensive oeuvre for solo piano also makes an important contribution to romantic piano music. It includes 'The Seasons' op. 37 - pleasant playable p...

The world-famous pianist András Schiff, a most familiar name to Bach fans on account of his complete recordings of Bach's piano works, has provided fingerings for both parts of the Well-Tempered Clavi...

These piano studies, fully worked out in summer 1848, but presumably sketched earlier, were published in the German original edition at the beginning of 1849 simply with the numbering 1-3. In the fir...

Bach's Six Partitas form what is presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history. Bach was aware of the weightiness of his cycle as he initially had these multi-moveme...

Grieg's celebrated Piano Concerto turns out to be an editor's nightmare. Even during the composer's lifetime the work was so famous that it had to be reprinted over and over again, each time with revi...

Digitación: Pascal Rogé Según el propio Ravel, no hay que dar demasiada importancia al extraño título de la pequeña pieza para piano compuesta en 1899, "Pavana para una princesa muerta". Lo eligió pri...

Es cuestión de gustos personales si el segundo o el tercer concierto para piano de Rachmaninoff es el mejor. Pero no cabe duda de que "Rach 3", con su abundancia de ideas melódicas, se cuenta hoy entr...

Los primeros Estudios op. 8 de Scriabin están en el corazón del repertorio pianístico virtuoso, su intención metódica y pedagógica es claramente visible. Sin embargo, también son 12 piezas de carácter...

Este ciclo de seis piezas para piano fue compuesto en 1896, sólo cuatro años después de que Rachmaninov terminara sus estudios en el Conservatorio de Moscú, y ya muestra signos del maestro maduro en e...

Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas 6–8 are often referred to as “war sonatas”, since they were composed in Russia during World War II during times of great hardship. As the shortest of the three, no. 7 is enti...