Partituras dificil de G. Henle Verlag

This middle piece of the early set of three early sonatas op. 2 dedicated to Joseph Haydn was probably composed in the winter of 1794/95. To this day it stands - unjustly -- in the shadow of its more...

As with the three sonatas that form opus 2, the trio of works forming opus 10, written between 1796 and 1798, offers a collection of three sonatas with entirely different characters. With its distinct...

Despite its unusual form - a structure with two sections, each comprising two movements that are to be played without interruption - this work from 1875 enjoyed great success from the start. In its ba...

In Schubert's cheerful E flat major Sonata, the listener is unaware that the composer struggled for a long time to arrive at its final version. Initial sketches date back to 1817, then still in a thre...

En el segundo volumen, Italie, publicado en 1858, de la trilogía Années de pèlerinage, los grandes nombres del arte y la poesía italianos ocupan un lugar central. Entre ellos se encontraba también Pet...

Charles Valentin Alkan centró toda su obra en el piano, y difícilmente se puede llenar la página más densamente de notas de lo que lo hizo Alkan. Con ello se cuenta entre los virtuosos del piano que d...

Isaac Albéniz entendió su "Suite Iberia" como "música española con un toque universal". Triunfó a la perfección con este colorido ciclo para piano, aunque al final, acosado por una grave enfermedad, t...

La undécima Rapsodia húngara, publicada en 1853, se basa en cuatro temas de carácter húngaro cuyo origen aún no se ha determinado: Liszt pudo haberlos anotado de oído durante su viaje a Hungría en 184...

Carl Maria von Weber's four piano sonatas, all composed in the decade 1812-1822, are considered the pillars of his not very extensive piano oeuvre. In these sonatas, Weber, who was one of the most ren...

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...

Every classically trained saxophonist knows and plays this work: with his Saxophone Quartet, composed in 1932, Alexander Glazunov established virtually out of nowhere a new genre and helped the then u...

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...

In 1891, the year before his final exam at the music conservatory, Alexander Scriabin injured his right hand due to his ambitious practising. This seriously jeopardized his career as a pianist and the...

Scriabin's two movement Piano Sonata no. 2 in g sharp minor was composed over a relatively lengthy period of time. He first began work on it in 1892, but in the summer of 1896, after Scriabin had perf...

'A great poem for the piano' was how Scriabin described his fifth piano sonata. It was indeed composed at the same time as his great poem for orchestra 'Le Poème de l'extase', and both works are based...

Kapellmeister Kreisler, the ingenious and eccentric conductor created by E. T. A. Hoffmann, served as the inspiration for this composition of 1838. Schumann set out to recreate this fictitious charact...

Who does not know Johann Sebastian Bach's Chaconne, the final piece from his Partita in D minor for solo violin? Time and again, composers have been inspired to open up this exceptional work for other...

In 1841, at the height of his mastery, Mendelssohn wrote three variation cycles for piano in quick succession. The first of them, the 'Variations sérieuses' op 54, should probably be regarded as his m...

The first book of Albéniz' four-part cycle 'Iberia' has already been published in an acclaimed Henle Urtext edition and many pianists are now eagerly awaiting the remaining ones. The second book in th...

Carl Czerny wrote the following about Ludwig van Beethoven's 'Grande Sonate' op. 7, published in 1797: 'The epithet appassionata would fit much better to the Sonata in E flat op. 7, which he wrote in...

Los sonidos del agua -fuentes, cascadas y arroyos- fueron un tema popular en el impresionismo musical. Liszt ya lo había explorado en sus "Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este", y también fue un tema que ins...

Miroirs - Ravel dedicó cada una de estas cinco piezas para piano a un miembro del círculo artístico parisino Les Apaches. Ravel también pertenecía a este círculo de poetas, pintores y músicos, y estre...

Una colección de poemas en prosa del romántico francés Aloysius Bertrand inspiró a Ravel su ciclo para piano "Gaspard de la nuit". A diferencia de obras anteriores, Ravel no se limita a crear una repr...

When Chopin gave his Opus 23 the title 'Ballade” in the mid 1830s, he established the piano ballade as a new musical genre which was subsequently taken up by others, including Brahms, Liszt and Grieg....