Piezas clásicas para piano

Arrangement for two pianos as well as arrangement for one piano four hands by Robert Keller, reworked by the composer.

The volume contains arrangements of works by other composers for piano. The best known is the arrangement of Bach's famous Chaconne in D minor for the left hand on the piano.

The Triumphlied for baritone, chorus and orchestra, almost forgotten today, was composed in response to the victory of the German army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and suffers somewhat from t...

Georges Bizet was not eminent as a piano composer, for the number of his piano works is small and not very substantial in terms of form, content and character. Yet there is an exception: the 'Jeux d'e...

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...

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...

Franz Schubert's three last piano sonatas were all composed in September 1828, two months before the composer's premature death. These are the Sonatas in C minor (D. 958), B-flat major (D. 960) and A...

It is almost impossible to tell from listening to them that Bach's extremely popular concerti for harpsichord were probably his own transcriptions of solo concerti which had originally been composed f...

Señor Albéniz may well inscribe upon his escutcheon the words 'Veni, vidi, vici'.' The London press thus commented on the Spaniard's triumphal tour of Britain between 1889 and 1893. It was in the Brit...

Carl Czerny wrote the following about Ludwig van Beethoven's 'Grande Sonate' op. 7, published in 1797: 'The epithet appassionata would fit much better to the Sonata in E flat op. 7, which he wrote in...

Roman Polanski's successful film 'The Pianist' has focused attention on the Nocturne in c sharp minor by Chopin. Our edition presents the work in two versions. One derives from the handwritten copy wh...

Muzio Clementi was only just 16 years old when he wrote this sonata - and already a talented pianist. He had studied many of the great works written by his famous predecessors. This charming early wor...

Mozart wrote all of his piano concertos for himself 'or for a small circle of amateurs and connoisseurs', which resulted in the fact that - excepting a few - they were not published during his lifetim...

Los sonidos del agua -fuentes, cascadas y arroyos- fueron un tema popular en el impresionismo musical. Liszt ya lo había explorado en sus "Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este", y también fue un tema que ins...

Miroirs - Ravel dedicó cada una de estas cinco piezas para piano a un miembro del círculo artístico parisino Les Apaches. Ravel también pertenecía a este círculo de poetas, pintores y músicos, y estre...

Una colección de poemas en prosa del romántico francés Aloysius Bertrand inspiró a Ravel su ciclo para piano "Gaspard de la nuit". A diferencia de obras anteriores, Ravel no se limita a crear una repr...

Towards the end of the 18th century, Clementi increasingly advocated the piano as the successor to the harpsichord. He composed expressly for the new instrument and in 1801 published a piano school. H...

Scriabin's Tenth Sonata was composed at the same time as the two Sonatas Nos. 8 and 9 in winter 1912/13. It was probably finished at the latest in June 1913. According to Leonid Sabanejev's reminiscen...

When the Catalan composer Albéniz wrote his six album leaves 'España' at the age of 30, he was in London and his piano recitals were causing a sensation. At these concerts he often performed his own c...

When Chopin gave his Opus 23 the title 'Ballade” in the mid 1830s, he established the piano ballade as a new musical genre which was subsequently taken up by others, including Brahms, Liszt and Grieg....

When Günter Henle founded his Urtext publishing house in 1948, he opened his catalogue with our two-volume edition of Mozart's complete piano sonatas; these still bear the publisher's numbers HN 1 and...

When Günter Henle founded his Urtext publishing house in 1948, he opened his catalogue with our two-volume edition of Mozart's complete piano sonatas; these still bear the publisher's numbers HN 1 and...