Partituras para piano

In 1878 Dvorák was commissioned to write something along the lines of Brahms's 'Hungarian Dances”, but using the sounds of his native country. The resulting eight 'Slavonic Dances” led to his internat...

Schubert at the piano, with his inexhaustible wealth of dance melodies, his friends around him dancing and playing jokes - this is one of the traditional images of Schubert that we so cherish. The ter...

'One closes one's eyes and is bedazzled by the sheer wealth of invention in this music!' The person who spoke so enthusiastically about Albéniz, one of the founders of the Spanish national style, was...

For half a century Henle's edition of the Beethoven sonatas - the 'New Testament' of the piano repertoire - has been universally recognized as the stan-dard starting-point for any serious study of the...

Albéniz' piano music is truly irresistible, in particular because of its dance-like elements and its Spanish atmosphere. Asturias combines these elements in a most sophisticated manner. It first appea...

In Schumann's middle years there was a longer period in which he favoured larger groups of instruments. Although he composed a few single pieces for piano, they remained unpublished at first. It was o...

Very few musicians are aware of the fact that Beethoven arranged his violin concerto also as a piano concerto. It is only recently that some pianists have discovered this truly rewarding work. Clement...

The most important source for the fundamentally revised edition is Schumann's hand copy. The poetic motti that Schumann noted at the end of the autograph are reproduced in the appended remarks.

Composed in Vienna in 1838 along with several other shorter pieces, Schumann's Arabesque has found a permanent place in the general piano repertoire. It may owe its lightness and grace to Schumann's u...

The stories surrounding Frédéric Chopin's winter holiday on Mallorca with George Sand in 1838/39 are widely known. It was there, in adverse conditions, that Chopin completed his 'Préludes' op. 28 whic...

Some of Gershwin's finest inspirations have not as yet been either published or publicly performed. It is probable that the production of his twenty-four preludes … will award him a still higher rank...

Gershwin's Concerto was premiered on December 3, 1925, in Carnegie Hall - the epicentre of New York's classical music scene. It belongs to a group of self-imposed 'experiments' with which the composte...

Who was 'Pauline, Countess of Abegg', the dedicatee of the first edition? Nowadays it is known that the matter revolves around a romantic mystification of the name of Meta Abegg, a friend from Schuman...

Chopin left behind only a few works in the main form of the classical era, the sonata - of these, the Piano Sonata op. 58 certainly numbers among his most important. Formally, it is more conventionall...

Chopin's early works include a wealth of new stimuli for anyone wishing to take a closer look at the creative works of the Polish genius. Up to now the four Rondos have been missing from our catalogue...

With humor, 'slow and tender, 'extremely brisk': the very expression marks of the op. 12 'Fantasy Pieces' illuminate their musical universe, a kaleidoscope of ideas and moods. Our revised new edition...

With the publication of the second volume, all of the 'Slavonic Dances' are now available in Urtext. Following the resounding success of the first series op. 46, which immediately made the composer fa...

Blue skies ahead for all music dealers and pianists: this new publication from the House of Henle follows up the huge success of its Jubilee Piano Album. For a highly affordable retail price this cros...

No other great composer left so many works for piano duet as Franz Schubert: altogether 54 (32 of which have an opus number) including fantasias, dances, marches, variations, rondos, sonatas, etc. Amo...

The second new volume of Rossini works features nine original piano compositions, formerly printed in two volumes. 128 pages. A great value!

Carl Czerny is considered by many to be the father of modern Piano technique. He composed over 1,000 works, including hundreds of Piano studies. Germer carefully selected and organized 3 volumes of Cz...

For one piano, four hands. Arranged by Weekley and Arganbright.

Saint-Sae~ns' Le Camaval des Animaux hat eine eigenartige Geschichte. Es dürfte vielleicht der einzige Fall sein, dass ein Komponist ein Werk nach wenigen Aufführungen zurückzog (abgesehen von einem k...

Respighi's first published work is a set of six solo piano pieces composed between 1903 and 1905. These independent salon pieces draw upon different musical styles, forms, and composers. They are not...