Partituras medio de G. Henle Verlag

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...

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are often referred to as the 'New Testament of Music' (Hans von Bülow). Since the publication of our complete edition in two volumes, experts have praised it as being the...

John Field, a pupil of Muzio Clementi, was in his day a celebrated pianist, credited with almost legendary skill. The Irish piano virtuoso and composer is principally known for his 'Nocturnes,' a genr...

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are often referred to as the 'New Testament of Music' (Hans von Bülow). Since the publication of our complete edition in two volumes, experts have praised it as being the...

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...

Debussy's early piano piece Tarentelle styrienne was published by Choudens in 1891. In 1903 the composer had it reissued under the new title Danse, with a few small revisions, by Fromont, with whom he...

Around 1900 Debussy composed 12 short pieces for two flutes, two harps and celesta as incidental music for the Chansons de Bilitis (recitation of ancient Greek poems by the courtesan Bilitis) by Pierr...

Carl Maria von Weber is best-known as a master of Romantic opera, but he was originally a virtuoso pianist who created a substantial amount of piano music for concert use. Next to his four piano sonat...

Alongside the opera 'Der Freischütz', Weber's 'Invitation to the Dance' in D flat major op. 65 is his most famous work. In the 19th century, Weber's spirited piece was considered the virtual incarnati...

The Henle catalogue contains almost all of Schumann's works for piano in top quality editions. With the publication of op. 32 we are filling an important gap. In or-der to help his 'Neue Zeitschrift f...

Johannes Brahms' "Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9" is one of the most touching and profound piano works of the Romantic era. Composed during a period marked by deep emotional connectio...

Brahms began his career as a pianist. His contribution to the piano music of the 19th century is significant in two respects: following Schubert and Schumann he cultivated the small, lyrical form, whi...

'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...

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...

It was in February 1854, a few weeks before Robert Schumann's admission to the psychiatric hospital in Endenich, that he wrote his variations on a theme in E-flat major. Because of the extraordinary,...

From Mozart's letters we know that he made firm plans in the summer of 1789 to earn money by composing six new easy piano sonatas for Princess Friederike of Prussia. Only this one was written, however...

The op. 7 Sonata was Grieg's first major piano work. While traditional in form and structure, its originality is expressed through the incorporation of elements from Scandinavian dances and folk tunes...

Reger's 'Five Humoresques' follow in the footsteps of the nineteenth-century genre inaugurated by Robert Schumann's 'Humoresque', op. 20. Occasionally Reger gives vent to high-spirited good humor, as...

Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata op. 143 in a minor was composed in 1823 after his large 'Wanderer Fantasy'. With its formal cohesion and mature originality, this a-minor Sonata initiated a new phase in...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his five large piano concertos over a period of twenty years. His Fifth Concerto in E-flat major op. 73, first published in 1810/11, is here presented in a piano reductio...

Spanish music with a universal touch': that is what Isaac Albéniz set out to compose, and he brought it off to perfection in his Iberia Suite. At last all four 'books' of this late-romantic masterpiec...

Not every listener will immediately realize that this piece, which begins in the style of a dream-like nocturne with one of Chopin's most enchanting melodic ideas, originated as a piano etude. But upo...

With a versatility and naturalness as appropriate to the salon as to the concert hall, Chopin's Nocturnes rank among the works that brought the composer not only fame, but also enormous renown. The de...

Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata in a minor op. post. 164, presented here in an Urtext edition, numbers among his early sonatas written between 1815 and 1819. In many of these pieces, Schubert still stru...

Liszt's Funérailles is a broadly conceived, virtuoso funeral march that has found a permanent place in the repertoire of all great pianists while remaining within the reach of talented amateurs. This...