Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartEditor: Sylvia Hewig-Tröscher
Contents: Minuet in G Major, K. 1e • Minuet in F Major, K. 5 • Minuet in C Major, K. 6 • Minuet in F Major, K. 6 • Piece in F Major from The London Sketchbook, K. 15hh • Contredanse, K. 534
Composers: Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt
Looking back in 1876, Liszt admitted candidly to the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel that his “Wagner Transcriptions” had “only served as modest propaganda for Wagner's noble genius, using the meager possibilities of
By Joseph Haydn
This Haydn sonata has previously not been available in the Henle catalogue as an individual Urtext edition. Nevertheless, it numbers among Haydn’s famous piano works. It was written in 1789 (thus making it one of the “late sonatas”) for t
With this E minor piano sonata, Classical-era composer Haydn created a work that displays positively romantic traits. Agitation and excitement are expressed in the main ideas of the first movement, while contra
Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas 6–8 are often referred to as “war sonatas”, since they were composed in Russia during World War II during times of great hardship. As the shortest of the three, no. 7 is entir
Composer: Sergei RachmaninoffEditor: Dominik Rahmer
Alongside HN 1264 (the Etude in e flat minor op. 39,5), we are now offering the Etude in C major in a single edition, taken from our much-loved complete edition of the 17 Études-Tableaux. Rachmaninoff
Composer: Sergei RachmaninoffEditors: Marc-André Hamelin, Dominik Rahmer
Between 1914 and 1917, Sergei Rachmaninoff published two volumes of Études-Tableaux – a term coined by the composer with which he succeeded in expressing the blend of technical stu
This edition follows the six piece-structure laid out by Rachmaninoff for publication. The two surviving études that were not originally published have been retained here in an appendix.
Rachmaninoff's legendary Opus 18, often lovingly referred to as “Rach 2,” is for many the epitome of the Romantic piano concerto. Following its acclaimed premiere in Moscow in 1901, it proved to be a show-stopper around th
Finally, we are able to offer one of Rachmaninov's most important, most substantial piano works in a meticulous Urtext edition that does justice to the work and to the editorial difficulties it raises. Rachma
Composer: Sergei RachmaninoffEditors: Marc-André Hamelin, Dominik Rahmer
As indestructible as Rachmaninoff's C-sharp-minor Prélude (51481211) may be, it is not his only Prélude to have begun a “solo career” of its own: with its rousing rhythms and rhaps
Sergei Rachmaninoff embarked on his compositional career with five short piano pieces. The second piece is the famous Prélude in C sharp minor which was soon played throughout the world and was to become Rachmaninoff’s most-performed encore.
Composer: Sergei RachmaninoffEditor: Dominik Rahmer
Fingering by Marc-André Hamelin
Rachmaninoff's Prélude in D major from his op. 23 collection is a wonderfully dreamy nocturne in the style of Chopin. The engaging immediacy of its poetic magic and the
Sergei Rachmaninov's second book of Préludes, op. 32, was written in the summer of 1910 at his family's idyllic country house in Ivanovka. This sleepy, rural area inspired the
Composer: Sergei RachmaninoffEditors: Marc-André Hamelin, Dominik Rahmer
Amongst the pieces in Rachmaninoff's 24 Préludes there are three that are particularly popular. These are now all available as single editions: Having already published two “warhor
In his “Autobiographical Sketch” Ravel looks back and stresses the importance of his “Miroirs” (51480842), published in 1906, for his harmonic evolution. He said that they had “disconcerted even those musicians
Piano cycle inspired by the prose poems of the French Romantic poet Aloysius Bertrand. Clear, oversized Urtext edition with the corresponding poem by Bertrand prefacing each part.
The sounds made by water – those of fountains, waterfalls, and streams – were a popular subject in musical impressionism; it was a subject that inspired Ravel. These shimmering tone paintings are among the first
