Partituras medio de G. Henle Verlag

The polonaise was a fashionable dance form not only in Chopin and Liszt's time, for Johann Sebastian Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann had already brought this Polish national dance to a high-point. His t...

The idea behind the 'Classical Piano Sonatas' of the preclassical and classical eras is to help the pianist find his way more easily within the profusion of literature in this genre, the most importan...

Grieg's second book of Lyric Pieces was published 16 years after its predecessor, but immediately reprised the huge success of the former collection. Interestingly enough, the original title pages of...

The extraordinary popularity of the first two books of Lyric Pieces (opp. 12 and 38) was interpreted differently by Grieg and his publisher. Whereas Grieg would have liked to call his third book 'Spri...

Grieg's successful series of Lyric Pieces reaches a unique climax in the eighth book. After the publisher almost had to force him - Grieg was at the point of becoming tired of composing Lyric Pieces -...

The high opus number suggests that it is a late work, yet in reality the work comprises twenty single movements which were composed 10 to 15 years before publication. This means that they were written...

During his summer holiday of 1842 Mendelssohn wrote four piano miniatures in each of the albums of two children to whom he was related. Years later he revised the pieces. In so doing, he deleted two o...

Al igual que la Salut d'amour de Elgar, las dos "chansons" figuran entre sus melodías más populares. La ensoñadora Chanson de nuit y su alegre homóloga Chanson de matin se interpretan a menudo juntas....

¡Arriba el telón para Henriëtte Bosmans! La Sonata para violonchelo y piano escrita en 1919 por la compositora y pianista holandesa es todo un descubrimiento: música exuberante y cantarina en un estil...

The Divertimento K. 247 in B-flat major was composed for the name day of Countess Antonia Lodron, and was first performed on 18 June 1776 in Salzburg. The little March K. 248 was presumably used to ac...

The Fantasy Pieces op. 88 are Schumann's first contribution to the genre of the piano trio and date from his very prolific 'chamber music year' 1842. However, Schumann needed an unusually long time to...

Esta obertura fue encargada por el conjunto judío "Simro", formado por seis antiguos compañeros del Conservatorio de San Petersburgo, con los que Prokófiev se reencontró en Nueva York en 1919. Querían...

As with the g minor Quartet op. 25, the origins of opus 26 reach back into the 1850s. However, it assumed its final shape only in summer and fall 1861. While in her first evaluation of the work Clara...

Los conciertos para clave de Bach, muy populares entre los pianistas, son presumiblemente reelaboraciones de piezas escritas originalmente para violín. Sin embargo, Bach consiguió trasladar las divers...

Los conciertos para clave de Bach, muy populares entre los pianistas, son presumiblemente reelaboraciones de piezas escritas originalmente para violín. Sin embargo, Bach consiguió trasladar las divers...

The serenade flourished in Mozart’s era, but with Brahms the genre experienced a new surge in popularity in the 19th century. Dvořák’s cheerful and relaxed op. 22 came into being in 1875, during a ver...

Elgar’s Serenade for Strings was composed in 1892 and represents the first of his works with which the 35-year-old composer was truly satisfied. Whether, as often claimed, it derives from three pieces...

Elgar’s Serenade for Strings was composed in 1892 and represents the first of his works with which the 35-year-old composer was truly satisfied. Whether, as often claimed, it derives from three pieces...

El motivo de la composición, descrita como una "suite al estilo antiguo", fue el 200 cumpleaños del poeta noruego-danés Ludvik Holberg (1684-1754), que se celebró en Bergen con varios actos festivos....

El motivo de la composición, descrita como una "suite al estilo antiguo", fue el 200 cumpleaños del poeta noruego-danés Ludvik Holberg (1684-1754), que se celebró en Bergen con varios actos festivos....

Instrumental virtuosity and the new impulses of baroque thought are to be found in the solo sonatas that came into being in Italy from the early decades of the 17th century. Both aspects have been tak...

The 'little' D-major Violin Concerto has no need to hide behind its 'big sister', K. 218. Not only does it challenge the player's technique, it's a masterpiece of the first order. Henle's edition stan...

Grieg's first Violin Sonata breathes youthful freshness and captivates with its Norwegian folk style. In terms of technique, it makes far fewer demands than Grieg's later violin sonatas and is thus al...

Brahms composed a whole series of chamber music works, including his Second Violin Sonata in A major, during a summer visit to Thun in Switzerland in 1886. This wonderfully lyrical work is one of his...

Weber composed an incredible array of compositions in his rather short but at the same time tireless life. Many of them have still to be discovered. The Six Violin Sonatas op. 10 (b), composed in Darm...