Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartEditor: Wolf-Dieter Seiffert
In 1764 the eight-year-old Mozart wrote the Sonatas K. 10-15 in London. Leopold Mozart was only able to understand his son's musical genius in terms of it being a God-given wonder: “That my b
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartEditor: Wolf-Dieter Seiffert
The Six Sonatas for Piano K. 26-31 that can also have a violin accompaniment were composed in The Hague. They were published in 1766 and were dedicated to Princess Caroline von Nassau-Weilbur
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
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Editors: Norbert Gertsch, Murray Perahia
Bookended by two famous sonatas, the Waldstein op. 53 and the Appassionata op. 57, the F-major Sonata op. 54 has always lived in the shadows, regrettably. In this first large-scale
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Editors: Norbert Gertsch, Murray Perahia
In celebration of Beethoven Year 2020, G. Henle Publishers presents the first of three volumes with the complete piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven in a new Urtext edition, prepa
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
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
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
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
“Miroirs” – Ravel dedicated each of these five piano pieces to a member of the Parisian artistic circle “Les Apaches.” Ravel also belonged to this circle of poets, painters and musicians, giving first performanc
According to Ravel himself, the strange title of the little piano piece composed in 1899, “Pavane for a dead princess,” should not be ascribed too much importance. He chose it mainly because he liked the a
Sonatine received a very positive reception at its 1906 premiere in Lyon. It has remained a favorite of pianists ever since. Now available in a convenient single edition.
The title of Ravel's Miroirs (1904/05) can be interpreted as “reflections” of the human world of experiences. Among the nature pictures in this cycle, “Une barque sur l'océan” is particularly popular, forming a
Piano ReductionComposer: Camille Saint-Saens
Editor: Peter Jost
Given Saint-Saëns' talents both as pianist and composer, it stood to reason that he would engage with the piano concerto genre early on. But he gave a clear renunciation of the “concerto br