Piezas clásicas para piano

Schumann's great C-major Fantasy, op. 17, was originally intended to be published as a 'Sonata for Beethoven' entitled 'Ruins, Trophies, Palms. Grand Sonata.' Although he eventually abandoned this pla...

Schubert composed the Wandererfantasie in November 1822. Though generally designated as a year of crisis, an entire series of Schubert's important works were created precisely at this time, when the W...

Eighteen piano sonatas survive from Mozart's pen, composed during his mature years between 1775 and 1789. They are usually grouped according to their first editions: (1) six sonatas K. 279-284 (2) thr...

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...

Los eruditos llevan mucho tiempo intentando descifrar el misterio de la única Fantasía en solitario de Chopin. Esta forma tan individual es un rompecabezas para todos los que prefieren conceptos de gé...

George Frideric Handel's powerful musical personality reveals itself not only in the large forms of opera, oratorio, and orchestral suite, but also in his compositions for keyboard. The focus here is...

Through the amiable genre of the sonatina, generations of piano pupils have slowly and cautiously approached its 'big sister', the sonata. With the aid of our three-volume selection of sonatinas from...

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...

Through the amiable genre of the sonatina, generations of piano pupils have slowly and cautiously approached its 'big sister', the sonata. With the aid of our three-volume selection of sonatinas from...

Domenico Scarlatti is today considered one of music history's great piano composers, and the first-ever piano virtuoso. The present collection contains 24 sonatas from various creative periods, offeri...

In 1828, the last year of his life, Franz Schubert composed three sonatas for piano which are generally described as the culmination of his lifelong occupation with the piano sonata genre. Schubert's...

Debussy's piano cycles and more substantial single pieces are listed as single editions in our catalogue. A further twelve, mostly shorter pieces have been collected in this little volume. The pieces...

Debussy composed the suite with four movements in 1888, fresh after his return from Italy where he had spent time on a scholarship at the Villa Medici in Rome as the winner of the Prix de Rome. He per...

Chopin's Piano Concertos first saw the light of day around 1829/1830 and thus represent the culmination and termination of his student years in Warsaw. Both concertos are early masterpieces with which...

Bach's death meant that the Art of Fugue was left unfinished. In his father's manuscriptCarl Philipp Emanuel noted exactly where the last fugue of the Art of Fugue broke off: 'While working on this fu...

In 1884 Grieg composed a suite in Baroque style on the occasion of the 200th birthday of the poet Ludvig Holberg, who was very well-known in Norway. Taking inspiration from Holberg's time there are da...

'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...

This volume gathers together, in chronological order, a selection of solo piano pieces that Schubert, to be sure, created as 'shorter' occasional works but which form an important part of his complete...

Domenico Scarlatti is today considered as one of music history's great piano composers, and the first-ever piano virtuoso. The present collection contains 24 sonatas from various creative periods, off...

To Diotima' - this addendum to the title was preserved until shortly before publication of the piano 'songs' and mystified Schumann's contemporaries. 'The Goddess to whom they are addressed has caused...

These six little piano pieces are among Liszt's best-known works and are comparatively easy to play - a rarity amongst the composer's often eccentric and virtuosic works. In 1844 Liszt had already beg...

The great D major sonata for two pianos, K. 448, is - of course - the absolute showpiece of this Urtext edition. The first movement opens like an operatic overture with timpani and trumpets, the Andan...

In memory of the deceased illustrator and architect Viktor A. Hartmann (1834-1873), an exhibition of his watercolours and drawings was organised in 1874. Modest Mussorgsky, who had been Hartmann's fri...

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...