Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Editor: Hans-Werner Küthen
Ludwig van Beethoven composed his five large piano concertos over a period of twenty-five years. When the composer sold his first two piano concertos in late 1800, he mentioned that he had even “
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Editor: Hans-Werner Küthen
Ludwig van Beethoven composed his five large piano concertos over a period of twenty years. His Fifth Concerto in E flat Major op. 73, first published in 1810/11, is here presented in a piano red
Beethoven's “33 Variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli”, composed between 1819 and 1823, are his most significant contribution to the genre. The notice announcing the publication of the first edition aptly
By Ludwig Van Beethoven
The Fifteen Variations (with Fugue) op. 35 composed in 1802 are known primarily by their sobriquet “Eroica Variations” because the theme is also used in the finale of the Third Symphony. Together with its sister work, opus 34, thi
Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenEditor: Ernst Herttrich
Originally composed as the final movement of the String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130, the GroBe Fuge was later adapted into a piano duet by Beethoven himself. New critical edition based on the re
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Editor: Hans-Werner Küthen
Very few musicians are aware of the fact that Beethoven arranged his violin concerto also as a piano concerto. It is only recently that some pianists have discovered this truly rewarding work. Cl
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Editors: Hans-Werner Küthen, Klaus Schilde
Aside from the five great piano concertos, it is easy to forget that Beethoven had already turned to this genre in Bonn during his youth. The Concerto in Eb, written in 1784, stil
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven's three piano sonatas op. 2 were the first works in this genre to which he gave an opus number, thus signalling to the musical world the special importance that he assigned to them. He wrote them during his first
Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenEditors: Norbert Gertsch, Murray Perahia
Norbert Gertsch, editor-in-chief at Henle Publishers, undertook a thorough revision of this edition, together with the renowned pianist Murray Perahia. In addition, the latter also p
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven gave this sonata the unusual title “Sonata quasi una Fantasia,” which it shares, along with its opus number, with the considerably more famous “Moonlight” Sonata. Both sonatas – along with the preceding sonata with
Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenEditor: Bertha Antonia Wallner
Beethoven's E-flat major Piano Sonata, the companion piece to the celebrated “Moonlight” sonata (op. 27 no. 2), is one that pianists especially admire and enjoy playing. This volume is an inex
Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenEditors: Murray Perahia, Norbert Gertsch
Sonata quasi una fantasia was the title given to it by Beethoven, and yet the world of music knows it as the Moonlight Sonata – an epithet that was already around during the composer
