Partituras medio de G. Henle Verlag

The genesis of one of Mozart's best-loved piano works, his Fantasy in d minor, is still shrouded in darkness. Even Mozart's sister, who came across the work in 1807 through the first edition, was asto...

Whenever one speaks about Beethoven's piano music, it is usually his sonatas that come to mind. However, his other works for this instrument are of no less significance. Thus it is not a coincidence t...

Along with Robert Schumann's identically titled op. 73, the Fantasiestücke of 1864 by the Danish composer Niels Wilhelm Gade are an essential part of the repertoire of all clarinettists. Gade lived in...

The four Bach flute sonatas presented in this volume offer a genuine variety both in style and transmission. The first two are thoroughbass sonatas conceived for flute, string bass and harpsichord. Th...

In his autograph of this concerto Vivaldi writes 'Flautino' - which does not make it quite clear whether the work is to be played on the f-soprano (sopranino) recorder or on the piccolo transverse flu...

In his virtuosic piano arrangement of Schumann's 'Widmung' ('Du meine Seele, du mein Herz'), Franz Liszt transformed this intimate song into a dramatic declaration that reaches its powerful climax at...

As indestructible as Rachmaninoff's c-sharp-minor Prélude (HN1211) may be, it is not his only Prélude to have begun a 'solo career' of its own: with its rousing rhythms and rhapsodic middle section, t...

Este ciclo de seis piezas para piano fue compuesto en 1896, sólo cuatro años después de que Rachmaninov terminara sus estudios en el Conservatorio de Moscú, y ya muestra signos del maestro maduro en e...

The first of Debussy's larger piano works was published in 1901. The slow middle movement had already been written in 1894. This grave Sarabande in the old style was published in a newspaper supplemen...

Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's sister, wrote music throughout her life. She originally published her songs and piano pieces under her brother's name, but soon began to use her own name in...

This dark and tragic sonata in A minor, composed in Paris in 1778, tends to be linked with the death of Mozart's mother on 3 July 1778. While this of course cannot be ruled out, not a single concrete...

As did many piano virtuosi at the time, Robert Schumann also dreamt of presenting himself to the public simultaneously as a pianist and composer with his own piano concerto. He had made several first...

Robert Schumann's 'Frühlingsnacht' ('Spring night') was one of his most popular songs even in the 19th century. Franz Liszt made a piano arrangement of it that in the space of under 70 measures emerge...

When his contemporaries heard the works that Johannes Brahms had composed during his summer holiday in Ischl in 1893 - the Piano Pieces op. 118 -, they were delighted. Clara Schumann was one of the fi...

The variation genre occupied Beethoven his whole artistic life. Collected in the second volume of G. Henle Publishers' complete edition of piano variations are compositions from his middle and later V...

Chopin gave the 'scherzo' a character all of its own, and his second Scherzo is probably the best known of the four works that he composed in that genre. In contrast to the first Scherzo, which surviv...

Las 22 sonatas para piano de Schubert esbozan una imagen muy esclarecedora de la trayectoria compositiva del compositor prematuramente fallecido. Desde los primeros ensayos del talentoso joven de 16 a...

Like many other nineteenth-century musicians, Robert Schumann wanted to settle down in the musical capital of Vienna. Though these plans came to naught, his stay in Vienna in 1839 gave rise to an enti...

The 'Davidsbund' - a group of artists who had joined forces in a revolutionary struggle against the backward structures in the artistic world, amongst whose members he counted both real and imaginary...

Mazurkas, nocturnes, waltzes and polonaises constitute the core of Chopin's expressive world. However, he also moved comfortably beyond such genre cycles, and pieces of this sort are brought together...

With the three movements Pagodes, La soirée dans Grenade (An evening in Granada) und Jardins sous la pluie (Gardens in the rain) Debussy creates a poetic world of landscapes and distant lands in the c...

In 1828, the last year of his life, Franz Schubert composed three sonatas for piano which are generally described as the culmination of his lifelong occupation with the piano sonata genre. Schubert's...

'Do you not know Jean Paul, our great writer? I have learnt more counterpoint from him than from my music teacher'. His 'Vorschule der Ästhetik' with its extensive treatment of humour probably occasio...

To Diotima' - this addendum to the title was preserved until shortly before publication of the piano 'songs' and mystified Schumann's contemporaries. 'The Goddess to whom they are addressed has caused...

The pianistically demanding studies 'Waldesrauschen' and 'Gnomenreigen' were written during the composer's mature late phase, in which one does not necessarily expect such virtuosic pieces. Liszt comp...