Composers: Ferruccio Busoni, Johann Sebastian BachEditors: Christian Schaper, Ullrich Scheideler
Aside from the violin Chaconne (HN 557) and the ten Chorale Preludes for organ (HN 1293), the Prelude and Fugue in D major ranks among the best-known piano t
“A wonderful piece, but very difficult – only a few will be able to master it...” Since this pronouncement by Nicolai Rubinstein, who nonetheless premiered it with bravura, the work has unjustly been stuc
Composer: Béla Bartók
Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances, composed in 1915, are among his best-known works. They exist in multiple forms, since as well as several piano arrangements and a later orchestral version of his own there also exist arrangements by hi
Bartók used different melodies taken from Romanian instrumental folk music in his Sonatina. A look at the sources shows how, in 1915, the piece slowly evolved out of a series of piano transcriptions of Romanian folk melodies into its three-movement form.
Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenEditors: Rolf Koenen, Joanna Cobb Biermann
There are probably very few piano students who have not tried their hand at this piece; it is undeniably one of the most popular classical piano pieces today. And yet unanswered qu
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