Partituras de Henle para piano

While original music for large ensembles was usually arranged for piano 4 hands in order to make this music experienceable in a house music setting, these arrangements have their own musical value and...

The volume contains Bartók's central piano works, including the extremely popular Romanian Folk Dances, known in numerous arrangements, the Suite op. 14, and the Sonatina. The volume offers a wealth o...

Mikrokosmos - critical report. Yusuke Nakahara (Editor). Complete Edition, critical report, clothbound, 41. Joint publishing venture with Editio Musica Budapest

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...

A work of transcendent beauty and rich programmatic allusions, Skrjabin's single-movement sixth Piano Sonata is a highly expressive product of the composer's final outburst of piano music. This editio...

Handel and fugues? The connection is not the first thing to cross our minds when we think of baroque keyboard music. Yet Handel, besides writing keyboard fugues as parts of larger works, also turned o...

None other than András Schiff is collaborating with Henle Publishers for the edition of Mozart's piano concertos. His piano reductions are aimed at amateurs rather than professionals; his fingerings f...

Though the autograph has disappeared, this posthumously published waltz is a jewel of Chopin's art, effectively combining dramatic passages with outpourings of lyricism. Despite its virtuoso brillianc...

Obermann', the epistolary novel by the French Romantic Senancour, inspired Liszt to write the first volume in his collection 'Années de Pèlerinage' (HN 173). A wanderer is searching for his ideals in...

Schumann kept coming back to variation form. He often wrote his own variations in contrast to those on popular (operatic) themes, with which piano virtuosi of the time flooded the market. The 'Impromp...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

The only surviving original recording of Albéniz' piano playing is from 1903. On a visit to Ruperto Regordosa Planas he had sat down at the former's piano and improvised three short pieces. Planas rec...

In his late work Beethoven devoted himself intensively to the forms of baroque polyphony. He originally composed the 'Große Fuge' as the final movement of the String Quartet in Bb major op. 130. Howev...

Complete Edition with critical report, Serie IIA, Band 3, clothbound.

Whose ears are not instantly filled with the dreamy flute solo when Debussy's 'Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune' is mentioned? Very few people know that before he wrote the orchestral score Debussy m...

The Scottish General Meredith Read called on Debussy in 1890 with a rather unusual request: Read acquainted the composer with a traditional bagpipe melody from his home country and asked him to write...

In summer 1891 Scriabin hurt his right hand through too much practice. For this reason he cultivated his playing with his left hand for which he composed his Prélude et Nocturne op. 9 in 1894. Both pi...

Scriabin's ideal of music as part of a synthesis of the arts, raising people to a higher level of consciousness, is particularly apparent in his late work 'Vers la flamme' op. 72. The poème opens with...

El primer movimiento de la Sonatina para piano de Maurice Ravel fue escrito probablemente en 1903. En cualquier caso, el compositor la interpretó el 8 de enero de 1904 en una velada celebrada en el sa...

The Six Sonatas K. 279-284 were probably written around the beginning of 1775. Mozart refers to them in letters that he sent to his father from his trip to Paris (1777-79). In these letters he often r...

Mozart assembled this sonata from two parts that had been composed at different times. The Rondo K. 494 is from 1786. It was only in January 1788 that Mozart composed the two pieces K. 533, and had Ho...

The three popular Intermezzi op. 117 can be seen as the epitome of Brahms' late work for piano. Clara Schumann confessed: 'In these pieces I at last feel musical life stir once again in my soul'. Brah...

In his letters Mozart described his early Piano Sonatas K. 270-284 as being 'difficult sonatas'. He was probably referring less to the refinements of performance and more to the demands of aesthetics...