Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Editor: Joanna Cobb Biermann
For a long time it was assumed that Beethoven reworked seven older pieces for his op. 33, published in 1803. But in the meantime it has been determined that all the surviving sketches came in
By Ludwig van Beethoven
Like the “Eroica Variations” op. 35, the Variations op. 34, were composed in 1802 on an original theme. The “new fashion” Beethoven declared for both works to his publisher becomes apparent in opus 34 through the constant change o
Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenEditors: Norbert Gertsch, Murray Perahia
The Piano Sonata op. 101 marks the transition to Beethoven's late works. The composer's increasing deafness was already manifesting itself in such a marked way that he no longer dare
The variation genre occupied Beethoven his whole artistic life. Collected in the second volume of G. Henle Publishers' complete edition of piano variations are compositions from his middle and later Vienn
Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenEditor: Joseph Schmidt-Görg
UPC: 884088173470
Publisher Code: HN142
Song List:
Beethoven: 10 Variations on “La stessa, la stessissima” by Salieri WoO 73
Beethoven: 12 Variations WoO 68
Beethoven: 12 Variations on a Russian
Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenEditor: Joseph Schmidt-Görg
UPC: 884088173487
Publisher Code: HN143
Song List:
Beethoven: 10 Variations on “La stessa, la stessissima” by Salieri WoO 73
Beethoven: 12 Variations WoO 68
Beethoven: 12 Variations on a Russian
Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenEditor: Joseph Schmidt-Görg
UPC: 884088173494
Publisher Code: HN144
Song List:
Beethoven: 15 Variations (with Fugue) E flat major op. 35
Beethoven: 32 Variations c minor WoO 80
Beethoven: 5 Variations on “Rule Britannia” Wo
Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenEditor: Joseph Schmidt-Görg
8 Variations on “Tändeln und Scherzen” by Süssmayr WoO 76 • 6 Easy Variations in G, WoO 77 • 6 Variations in F, Op. 34 • 15 Variations (with Fugue) in E-flat, Op. 35 • 7 Variations on “God Save t
Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenEditor: Sylvia Hewig-Tröscher
Contents: Lustig-Traurig, WoO 54 • Six Eccossaises, WoO 83 • Bagatelle in A minor, WwO 59 “Für Elise” • Piano Sonata No. 20 in G Major, Op. 49, No. 2 • Adagio sostenuto from Piano Sonata No. 14
Berg's opus 1 is one of the most frequently played sonatas amongst the Second Viennese School piano compositions. With this publication, Henle is introducing Urtext editions to classical modernism.
Composer: Johannes BrahmsEditors: Andreas Boyde, Katrin Eich
The three popular Intermezzi op. 117 can be seen as the epitome of Brahms' late work for piano. Clara Schumann confessed: “In these pieces I at last feel musical life stir once again in my s
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 down, but
The Scottish ballad “Edward” from J. G. Herders anthology of folk songs “Stimmen der Völker in Liedern” made such a deep impression on Brahms that, as he told a friend, the melodies came to him effortlessly.
Johannes Brahms presumably wrote the Fantasies Op. 116 at the same time as the Intermezzi Op. 117 in the summer of 1892 in Bad Ischl. His sojourn in the Salzkammergut obviously inspired Brahms to write music
Song List:
Brahms: Capriccio d minor op. 116,1
Brahms: Capriccio d minor op. 116,7
Brahms: Capriccio g minor op. 116,3
Brahms: Intermezzo a minor op. 116,2
Brahms:
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 first to
Johannes Brahms' piano sonatas were among the 20-year-old composer's first publications. They were written in 1852-53, with the slow movement of this C major Sonata, which used the song “Verstohlen geht der Mond auf,” bearing the earliest date, April 1852
Johannes Brahms' summer sojourn in 1893 in Bad Ischl was productive. Alongside the pieces op. 118, he also wrote his last cycle of piano pieces, opus 119. The composer wrote to Clara Schumann of the opening
Brahms mainly composed the eight Piano Pieces op. 76 in summer 1878 in the summer resort of Pörtschach at Lake Wörth. Theodor Billroth, a close friend, was enthusiastic about the new works: “These are magnifi
