Piezas clásicas para piano

Which of his pupils did Haydn have in mind when he composed his humorous 'Divertimento à due per il Clavicembalo solo'? It was written at a time when works for piano four-hands were still the exceptio...

This Rondo was written around the same time as the Piano Concertos in A major (K. 488) and c minor (K. 491). In the course of the work, a theme from the third movement of the Piano Quartet in g minor...

Our series of revised Schumann editions continues with this delicately wrought set of variations. 'Opus 18 and 19 are frail things for ladies': thus, with a wink of the eye, Schumann alluded to his wi...

In response to failures, Schumann once again turned more to composing during his time in Düsseldorf. He wrote many new works - also ones for the piano for which he had only written a few pieces after...

Haydn's last piano work is also considered to be his most famous single work for this instrument. The minor theme is filled with emotional depth: 'a melancholy andante in f minor, with variations, as...

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...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann's birth, an ambitious project has been realized in 2010: For the first time since Clara Schumann's Complete Edition of 1879-93, all of the works...

Mozart is one of the pioneers of works for piano four-hands; he was undoubtedly encouraged to do so through his music-making on the harpsichord with his sister, as depicted in the famous family portra...

When Chopin left with George Sand for his oft-cited winter sojourn on Mallorca in autumn 1838, he also took his second ballade with him, which was not yet finished. Chopin's health and other unfavoura...

Chopin was probably the first to apply the word 'ballade' to music', Robert Schumann once wrote. He and his contemporaries were only familiar with the term 'ballad' as a literary generic concept. Poem...

With this poetic masterpiece all four of the recently revised 'Ballades” (HN 862) are now available as single editions. Following a restrained opening in C major and the first dreamy sounds of the the...

No other great composer has left so many works for piano four-hands as Franz Schubert - altogether 54 (32 of these with opus number): fantasies, dances, marches, variations, rondos, sonatas etc. - Pla...

The early Piano Sonata op. 4 offers interesting insights into the young Chopin's compositional development. In all probability written during his student years at the Warsaw Conservatory and highly pr...

Haydn only made piano arrangements of his own works in very special cases. The popularity of his hymn 'Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser' (God Save Emperor Francis) did not simply occasion him to write th...

When he switched from the harpsichord to the fortepiano in the 1780s, Joseph Haydn found he had a rich palette of sound colours and dynamic variations at his disposal, and he employed them enthusiasti...

The only surviving original recording of Albéniz' piano playing is from 1903. On a visit to Ruperto Regordosa Planas he had sat down at the former's piano and improvised three short pieces. Planas rec...

Franz Xaver Mozart was W. A. Mozart's youngest son. Intended for a career in music by his mother from the very beginning, he followed in his father's footsteps but was not able to step out from under...