Partituras de edición Urtext

After intensive sketching work, Grieg sends the neatly written autograph engraving to his publisher. The first edition (1891) corresponds to the text of this autograph. Interestingly, Grieg changes so...

My compositions are very profitable for me and I can say that I have more orders than are almost possible for me to fulfil.' Beethoven wrote the latter to a friend in 1801. He had only just completed...

In 1878 Dvorák was commissioned to write something along the lines of Brahms's 'Hungarian Dances”, but using the sounds of his native country. The resulting eight 'Slavonic Dances” led to his internat...

Schubert at the piano, with his inexhaustible wealth of dance melodies, his friends around him dancing and playing jokes - this is one of the traditional images of Schubert that we so cherish. The ter...

'One closes one's eyes and is bedazzled by the sheer wealth of invention in this music!' The person who spoke so enthusiastically about Albéniz, one of the founders of the Spanish national style, was...

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

Albéniz' piano music is truly irresistible, in particular because of its dance-like elements and its Spanish atmosphere. Asturias combines these elements in a most sophisticated manner. It first appea...

In Schumann's middle years there was a longer period in which he favoured larger groups of instruments. Although he composed a few single pieces for piano, they remained unpublished at first. It was o...

Very few musicians are aware of the fact that Beethoven arranged his violin concerto also as a piano concerto. It is only recently that some pianists have discovered this truly rewarding work. Clement...

The most important source for the fundamentally revised edition is Schumann's hand copy. The poetic motti that Schumann noted at the end of the autograph are reproduced in the appended remarks.

Composed in Vienna in 1838 along with several other shorter pieces, Schumann's Arabesque has found a permanent place in the general piano repertoire. It may owe its lightness and grace to Schumann's u...

The stories surrounding Frédéric Chopin's winter holiday on Mallorca with George Sand in 1838/39 are widely known. It was there, in adverse conditions, that Chopin completed his 'Préludes' op. 28 whic...

Some of Gershwin's finest inspirations have not as yet been either published or publicly performed. It is probable that the production of his twenty-four preludes … will award him a still higher rank...

Gershwin's Concerto was premiered on December 3, 1925, in Carnegie Hall - the epicentre of New York's classical music scene. It belongs to a group of self-imposed 'experiments' with which the composte...

Who was 'Pauline, Countess of Abegg', the dedicatee of the first edition? Nowadays it is known that the matter revolves around a romantic mystification of the name of Meta Abegg, a friend from Schuman...

Chopin left behind only a few works in the main form of the classical era, the sonata - of these, the Piano Sonata op. 58 certainly numbers among his most important. Formally, it is more conventionall...

Chopin's early works include a wealth of new stimuli for anyone wishing to take a closer look at the creative works of the Polish genius. Up to now the four Rondos have been missing from our catalogue...

Frédéric Chopin's 4 Scherzi are high points in the Romantic piano repertoire. Chopin here takes a traditional genre and fills it with radically new content. They are wild, demonic in tone, and there i...

With humor, 'slow and tender, 'extremely brisk': the very expression marks of the op. 12 'Fantasy Pieces' illuminate their musical universe, a kaleidoscope of ideas and moods. Our revised new edition...

With the publication of the second volume, all of the 'Slavonic Dances' are now available in Urtext. Following the resounding success of the first series op. 46, which immediately made the composer fa...

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...

No other great composer left so many works for piano duet as Franz Schubert: altogether 54 (32 of which have an opus number) including fantasias, dances, marches, variations, rondos, sonatas, etc. Amo...

La revisión de 1997 del Clave bien temperado I de J. S. Bach contiene una notable corrección en el texto musical del Preludio en si mayor, que hasta ahora no había llegado a ninguna nueva edición, ade...

La preocupación de Robert Schumann por crear música valiosa e idácticamente significativa para niños y jóvenes no se limitó al mundialmente famoso Álbum para jóvenes op. 68 para piano (1848). Además d...

Urtext for practical use based on the New Schumann Complete Edition Aunque Robert Schumann era un apasionado de la interpretación a cuatro manos, sólo escribió unas pocas obras para piano a cuatro man...