Partituras dificil de G. Henle Verlag

Entre los inestimables tesoros del departamento de música de la Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin se encuentra su colección de autógrafos de Bach. El manuscrito de la Sonata para flauta en si menor BWV 1030...

Como fan declarado de Schubert, a Franz Liszt también le gustaba tocar transcripciones de canciones de Schubert en sus recitales de piano. Inicialmente tenía en su repertorio un arreglo de la "Trucha"...

Fingering: Marc-André Hamelin Between 1914 and 1917, Sergei Rachmaninoff published two volumes of Études-Tableaux - a term coined by the composer with which he succeeded in expressing the blend of tec...

La virtuosa "Passacaglia" para violín y viola de Johan Halvorsen, adaptada libremente según Haendel, es un bis indispensable en las salas de concierto. El compositor, director de orquesta y violinista...

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...

Liszt understood a "rhapsody" to signify the highest degree of musical freedom: a constant process of transformation and variation of themes and motifs, all bound up with constant shifts of emotion. A...

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...

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...

Incluso antes de que su Cuarteto de cuerda nº 3 apareciera impreso en 1929, Bartók ya estaba trabajando en un cuarto en el verano de 1928. Esta obra de cinco movimientos está dispuesta simétricamente...

Tchaikovsky spent the summer and autumn of 1880 at his sister’s country estate in Kam’ianka, Ukraine, where he sought peace and relaxation. But after a short time the desire to work took hold of him a...

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...