Partituras de Henle para piano

Who doesn't know Mozart's 'Sonata facile' of 1788? Yet those who practice this extremely popular piano sonata in C major will realize that it is by no means so 'easy' to play. Its nickname does not co...

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...

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...

This 'little Suite” was published in 1908 and was dedicated to the composer's then three-year old daughter: 'To my beloved little Chouchou with the tender excuses of her father for what follows below”...

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...

The first Prelude from volume I of the Well-Tempered Clavier is among the most-played pieces in the piano repertoire. Though it seems easy to play, this is misleading since the performer must build up...

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...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel fue uno de los pianistas más famosos de su época, capaz incluso de rivalizar con Beethoven. Entre sus numerosas composiciones para piano solo, destaca especialmente la Sonata en...

La «Serenata andaluza» de Manuel de Falla fue compuesta hacia 1900 y ya muestra el estilo característico del joven compositor: melodías inspiradas en el folclore español y ritmos andaluces animados se...

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...

Fréderic Chopin's stay with George Sand on Mallorca in the winter 1838/1839 was ill-fated. Yet Chopin still managed to finish his 'Préludes” there which he had begun to compose in Paris. Today's inter...

Blue skies ahead for all music dealers and pianists: this new publication from the House of Henle follows up the huge success of its Jubilee Piano Album. For a highly affordable retail price this cros...

'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 the summer of 1894, Antonín Dvorák interrupted his stay in America in order to spend his holidays back in his homeland of Bohemia. During those happy weeks, he wrote his eight Humoresques for piano...

Schumann's Papillons op. 2 has been a best-selling item in Henle's catalogue for decades. What is special about our revised new edition? First, the musical text has been painstakingly compared once ag...

'Do you love Brahms?' The majority of music lovers will answer 'yes', and they might be thinking of the Waltz op. 39 no. 15 - its gently rocking melody is one of Brahms's most famous inspirations. Bot...

This edition with over 50 pages contains the universally known selection of easy preludes and little fugues that has proved extremely successful in teaching the piano. Bach's sons, with Wilhelm Friede...

'Decisive and manly,' 'most profound sentiment and delicacy,' and 'imaginative humour' - thus does Beethoven's contemporary Carl Czerny accurately describe the three movements of this expressive sonat...

Possibly the most famous late Romantic piano work and now finally also available in Henle Urtext! First published in 1892 as part of the piano cycle 'Morceaux de Fantaisie' op. 3, the work also soon b...

As indestructible as Rachmaninoff's c-sharp-minor Prélude (HN1211) may be, it is not his only Prélude to have begun a 'solo career' of its own: with its rousing rhythms and rhapsodic middle section, t...