Partituras de edición Urtext

Shortly after the Second World War, Richard Strauss, then 80 years old, had remained safe in his villa in Garmisch, though cultural life in Europe had come to a complete standstill. The American occup...

En sus composiciones, Richard Strauss demuestra su profundo conocimiento del carácter de la trompa romántica. Alcanzó su mayor éxito en este sentido con su primer concierto para trompa, que -junto con...

Los planes para un concierto para piano de Ravel se remontan a 1906, pero no fue hasta principios de 1929 cuando el compositor comenzó a trabajar en él en serio. Desde su exitoso estreno en enero de 1...

A su colección de 13 canciones para piano, op. 34, Rachmaninov añadió tres años más tarde una breve pieza final sin letra: «Vocalise», que pronto se convirtió en un éxito mundial. Desde su estreno en...

A su colección de 13 canciones para piano, op. 34, Rachmaninov añadió tres años más tarde una breve pieza final sin texto: «Vocalise», que pronto se convirtió en un éxito mundial. Desde su estreno en...

La «Canción de Fingal», op. 17b, para coro mixto y orquesta, es un arreglo del cuarto movimiento de las Cuatro canciones para coro femenino, trompas y arpa, op. 17, que Brahms compuso en 1879 a instan...

The present Concertino in E-flat major, Op. 5, was composed especially for the Leipzig trombone virtuoso Carl Traugott Queisser (1800-1846), to whom the work is also dedicated. The Concertino was firs...

Something "completely new and unheard-of" would be offered to the audience, Robert Schumann wrote to Franz Liszt at the end of 1851, referring to the premiere of his "dramatic poem" Manfred. Already a...

With the 'Kullervo' premiere in 1892, Jean Sibelius, already at the age of 27, announced his claim as a symphonist far ahead of the purely instrumental symphonies and tone poems. Urtext according to t...

Russian music researcher Polina Vajdman has gone back to all relevant sources in her editing.

For the 'Fidelio' overture, composed at lightning speed in 1814, a copy of the score in the Austrian National Library today provides a reliable basis for a new text-critical edition.

Schumann's 'Sinfonietta' in the Urtext The intensity with which Schumann dealt with the symphony is shown not only by the four known works themselves, but also by compositions that stand between the g...

On their way to Salzburg, Constanze and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made a stopover in Linz in the fall of 1783. The stay was productive: the 13-voice, four-movement Linz Symphony was created. To compose...

1936 erhielt Béla Bartók von seinem Schweizer Mäzen Paul Sacher den Kompositionsauftrag zur "Musik für Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug und Celesta". Bartók gelang dabei eines der großen Meisterwerke des...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...

Little is known about the actual composition process of Lemminkäinen and the performance and publication history is rather complex, resulting in a first complete printing of all the four movements en...

Of all his symphonies, Mahler gave the Fourth, his favorite and problem child, his most particular attention. 'The Heavenly Life,' a humoresque composed in 1892 for soprano and piano, which he already...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy created a standard work with his final violin concerto in E minor op. 64 MWV O 14 that is now firmly established in today's concert repertoire. When in 1838 the composer in...

Richard Strauss was aware (especially following the success of his 'Don Juan') of his reputation and above all of his 'value' as a composer, which led him to rewrite several of his successful works by...

Joachim Raff's Fifth Symphony "Lenore" op. 177, composed in 1872, reveals the composer as a representative of the middle ground between Neo-German aesthetics and the symphonic tradition. It owes its n...

Joachim Raff’s celebrated first cello concerto is only gradually being rediscovered today. This is astounding, taking into account both the quality of the composition as well as its enthusiastic recep...

Strauss had originally intended that Don Quixote always be performed, if possible, together with Heldenleben, “since Don Q. in particular is only fully comprehensible alongside Heldenleben.” To date,...

Las seis últimas y musicalmente más importantes sinfonías de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart en la edición Urtext de Breitkopf & Härtel. Los editores Cliff Eisen y Henrik Wiese presentan un texto musical auté...

Se dice que "El Danubio Azul" es el himno secreto de Austria y, junto con la "Marcha Radetzky", es la pieza tradicional del Concierto de Año Nuevo de la Filarmónica de Viena. Ya en su estreno mundial...

Johann Strauß Sohn revolucionó el vals vienés en el siglo XIX y lo popularizó en todo el mundo. Sus obras, como los famosos valses "El bello Danubio azul" op. 314 y "Cuentos de los bosques de Viena" o...