Piezas clásicas para piano

En el otoño de 2024, la Biblioteca Morgan de Nueva York informó de una sensación: su conservador Robinson McClellan había descubierto un manuscrito del tamaño de una postal de un vals en La menor con...

Chopin gave the 'scherzo' a character all of its own, and his second Scherzo is probably the best known of the four works that he composed in that genre. In contrast to the first Scherzo, which surviv...

Over 50 internationally celebrated pianists were invited to adopt one Haydn piano sonata each and provide it with their personal fingerings - a 'who's who' on the contemporary piano scene. G. Henle Pu...

Over 50 internationally celebrated pianists were invited to adopt one Haydn piano sonata each and provide it with their personal fingerings - a 'who's who' on the contemporary piano scene. G. Henle Pu...

This volume includes: Johann Wilhelm Hässler: 6 Pieces from Etudes en Vingt-quatre Valses op. 49 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata movement g minor K. 312 (590d) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: March C major K...

Mozart composed his Adagio in b minor K. 540 at a time when his financial situation was steadily deteriorating. The war against the Turks was constraining the Viennese people's interest in music - wor...

When his contemporaries heard the works that Johannes Brahms had composed during his summer holiday in Ischl in 1893 - the Piano Pieces op. 118 -, they were delighted. Clara Schumann was one of the fi...

Five famous sonatas by Beethoven - all bearing a popular epithet known the world over - are presented to advanced pianists in this attractive volume of selected works from the new three-volume Urtext...

Las Danzas populares rumanas de Bartók, compuestas en 1915, figuran entre sus obras más conocidas. Existen en múltiples formas, ya que además de varios arreglos para piano y una versión orquestal post...

El Mikrokosmos de Bartók es uno de los hitos del repertorio pianístico pedagógico y, sin embargo, es mucho más que un manual de piano "clásico". Estas 153 piezas para piano, organizadas en orden ascen...

Las 22 sonatas para piano de Schubert esbozan una imagen muy esclarecedora de la trayectoria compositiva del compositor prematuramente fallecido. Desde los primeros ensayos del talentoso joven de 16 a...

Sergei Rachmaninoff inició su carrera compositiva con cinco piezas cortas para piano, que presentó por primera vez en diciembre de 1892 en un concierto en Charkow (actual Kharkiv). La segunda pieza, c...

Los planes de Ravel para un concierto para piano se remontan a 1906, pero no fue hasta principios de 1929 cuando el compositor empezó a trabajar seriamente en él. Más tarde declaró que lo había escrit...

One of the answers found by Schönberg's circle to the question about how musical processes could be shaped without a tonal context was in the extreme streamlining of the form. With Schönberg's Six Lit...

This last of the surviving C major sonatas was written during Haydn's second London sojourn in 1794/95 for the pianist Terese Jansen, Mrs Bartolozzi. It seems to have been a very personal expression o...

The toccata genre has undergone great change since Bach’s time. Originally denoting works of recitative or improvisatory character, since the 19th century the emphasis has been on a continuous pulsati...

Liszt's piano rhapsodies are in the same tradition as his transcriptions of opera or song themes, but in this case the point of departure is folk dances and songs. Liszt described no. 2 of his Hungari...

One of Scriabin’s best-known piano pieces is also one of his very first compositions. He wrote it when he was only fifteen years old; when it appeared in print in 1893, the twenty-one-year-old was sti...

Johannes Brahms eligió en dos ocasiones un tema de su amigo y mentor Robert Schumann como base para variaciones para piano. Mientras que las Variaciones op. 9 fueron compuestas para piano solo, como e...

The three piano sonatas K. 330-332 were probably written in Vienna or Salzburg in summer 1783, thus many years later than previous Mozart scholarship had assumed. This F-major sonata K. 332 was publis...

Like many other nineteenth-century musicians, Robert Schumann wanted to settle down in the musical capital of Vienna. Though these plans came to naught, his stay in Vienna in 1839 gave rise to an enti...

Schumann's turbulent love-affair with the barely eighteen-year-old Ernestine von Fricken, though strong enough to lead to a secret engagement, lasted only a few months. Nevertheless, it managed to giv...

The polonaise made its first appearances in stylized dance music in the late 16th century. With his own polonaises, Chopin also declared his allegiance to his native Poland. In a way, the genre had fa...

The 'Davidsbund' - a group of artists who had joined forces in a revolutionary struggle against the backward structures in the artistic world, amongst whose members he counted both real and imaginary...

Teaching the piano was an important source of income for Brahms, as it was for many nineteenth-century composers. This gave rise to collections of exercises which at first he only occasionally wrote d...