Composer: Robert SchumannEditor: Wiltrud Haug-Freienstein
The Henle catalogue contains almost all of Schumann's works for piano in top quality editions. With the publication of Op. 32 we are filling an important gap. In or-der to help his “Neue Zeitschr
Robert Schumann's “Frühlingsnacht” (“Spring night”) was one of his most popular songs even in the 19th century. Franz Liszt made a piano arrangement of it that in the space of under 70 measures emerges as a ve
A secret engagement, a composer as prospective father-in-law and several rival publishing houses – it was against this backdrop that the work was composed. His youthful and passionate love for Ernestine v
Composer: Robert SchumannEditor: Wolfgang Boetticher
Schumann began work on the Toccata op. 7 when he was only 20 years old. At the time he was studying law, following his family's wishes. He did not, however, intend to have his first manuscript, entitl
Composer: Robert SchumannEditor: Sylvia Hewig-Tröscher
Contents: Little Lullaby from Album Leaves, Op. 124, No. 6 • Little Folksong from Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 9 • Echoes of the Theatre from Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 25 • A Tale of Dist
Composer: Alexander ScriabinEditors: Michael Schneidt, Valentina Rubcova
Scriabin's ten complete piano sonatas offer a fascinating insight into the Russian composer’s stylistic development. While his first works still fully reflect the late-romantic tra
Composer: Alexander Scriabin Editor: Valentina Rubcova
In the years 2001-2014, G. Henle Publishers issued Urtext editions of the ten piano sonatas by Alexander Scriabin. The Scriabin specialist Valentina Rubcova from Moscow, the editor of these ten edit
Composer: Alexander ScriabinEditors: Michael Schneidt, Valentina Rubcova
Based on the first edition that the composer carefully oversaw as well as a recording of Scriabin himself playing the work done on paper rolls for the mechanical pianos made by the
Composer: Alexander ScriabinEditor: Valentina Rubcova
In addition to the surviving sketches and the first edition, this edition also takes into account a recording that Scriabin made of his work on a mechanical piano. Russian Scriabin expert Valentina R
Composer: Alexander ScriabinEditors: Michael Schneidt, Valentina Rubcova
Composed at the same time as Scriabin's great poem for orchestra “Le Poème de l'extase.” Both works are based on the same literary program. Scriabin spent a long time honing the te
Composer: Alexander ScriabinEditor: Valentina Rubcova
Often referred to as the “Black Mass,” this work delves into the mystic-dark sphere which fascinated Scriabin. This Urtext edition is based on the composer's revisions which followed the first public
Composer: Alexander ScriabinEditor: Valentina Rubcova
A work of transcendent beauty and rich programmatic allusions, Scriabin's single-movement sixth Piano Sonata is a highly expressive product of the composer's final outburst of piano music. This editi
Composer: Alexander ScriabinEditor: Valentina Rubcova
Scriabin called his seventh sonata “White Mass,” drawing attention to the mystical basis that is stamped on all his late works, including this one. He attempts here to translate into sound his ideal
Composer: Alexander ScriabinEditor: Valentina Rubcova
In his last years, Scriabin realized a noble and great idea. Inspired by his study of theosophical writings, he dreamed of joining music, poetry, mime, architecture, light, color and even aromas to c
Composer: Alexander ScriabinEditors: Michael Schneidt, Valentina Rubcova
Scriabin's ideal of music as part of a synthesis of the arts, raising people to a higher level of consciousness, is particularly apparent in this late work. Scriabin expert Valenti
During his youth, Richard Strauss composed a large number of works for piano solo, among them numerous sonatas. Yet it was only the Sonata in b-minor that he obviously considered important enough to want to see in print. It wa
