G. Henle URTEXT edition. Newly revised 2007 edition. Edited by Ernst Hettrich. Fingering by Hans-Martin Theopold. Encouraged by the success of his "Papillons," Schumann composed his "Intermezzi" op 4, also known as "longer Papillons," in 1832. Despite the at-times improvisatory style, Schumann worked very carefully on this composition, "The Intermezzi are going to be something special - each note is going to be weighed up carefully." The fact that Schumann was preoccupied with counterpoint at the...
Romantic. In his virtuosic piano arrangement of Schumann's "Widmung" ("Du meine Seele, du mein Herz"), Franz Liszt transformed this intimate song into a dramtic declaration that reaches its powerful climax at the phrase "Mein guter Geist, mein bess'res Ich," using chords to be played con somma passione. In Liszt's autograph the melody is overlaid by the song text, but he changes the title to "Liebeslied." The first edition, published in Leipzig in 1848, retained this heading, and thus the song is...
G. Henle urtext edition. As he was interested in politics, Schumann took an active interest in the democratically motivated unrest in spring 1848. The following year he directly witnessed the May uprising in Dresden, after which he had to flee the country with his family. These circumstances influenced his music. As early as June, Schumann sent four out of originally five marches for piano to his publisher, requesting him to publish them immediately. "I did not know of a better way in which to gi...
G. Henle urtext edition. In response to failures, Schumann once again turned more to composing during his time in Duesseldorf. He wrote many new works - also ones for the piano for which he had only written a few pieces after his first years of composing. Bach's music played an important role in the Schumanns' house at the time; this is mirrored in the fact that Schumann turned to baroque forms again. However, he wanted his fugues to be understood as "character pieces, just in a stricter form".Th...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. "...as your bride, you must indeed dedicate something further to me, and I know of nothing more tender than these 3 Romances, in particular the middle one, which is the most beautiful love duet." It was with these words that Clara Schumann laid claim to the dedication of the Romances which Robert had given her as a Christmas present in 1839. Robert did not, however, consider them to be "good or worthy enough" of her. Even so, he later counted the Romances amongst his most...
G. Henle URTEXT edition, revised summer 2007. Edited by Ernst Herttrich. Fingerings by Walther Lampe. German title is Kinderszenen. "As far as the Scenes from Childhood are concerned, I owe them one of the liveliest pleasures of my life." These words were uttered by none other than Franz Liszt. In the evenings he often enjoyed playing part of them, not only for his little daughter Blandine-Rachel but also for his own pleasure. Even today, the Scenes from Childhood still raise the question as to ...
These pieces are fruits of Schumann's engagement with Bach and Mozart. They combine the contrapuntal tradition with the "light muse," radiating levity and merriment. Edited by Wiltrud Haug-Frauenstein. Fingering by Leif Ove Andsnes.
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17 Well-Known Original Pieces in Progressive Order of Difficulty. Contents: Little Lullaby from Album Leaves, Op. 124, No. 6 , No. 9 Echo, No. 25 A Tale of Distant Lands from Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15, No. 1 Curious Story from Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15, No. 2 Reverie from Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15, No. 7 . Albumleaf 1 from Colored Leaves, Op.99, No. 4 Intermezzo in A minor, Op. 4, No. 3 Intermezzo in C Major, Op. 4, No. Romance in G minor from, No. 4 In the Evening from...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. Subtitled "Concerto without Orchestra." Includes early and late versions. Edited by Ernst Herttrich. Fingering by Hans-Martin Theopold.
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Romantic. In 1891, the year before his final exam at the music conservatory, Alexander Scriabin injured his right hand due to his ambitious practising. This seriously jeopardized his career as a pianist and the young musician plunged into a crisis. Yet Scriabin still managed to complete his piano studies in 1892, gaining a gold medal. His first published Piano Sonata op. 6 is, however, irrevocably linked to this time of crisis. The dark work reaches its climax at the end of the 3rd movement with ...
Romantic. Scriabin's two movement Piano Sonata no. 2 in g sharp minor was composed over a relatively lengthy period of time. He first began work on it in 1892, but in the summer of 1896, after Scriabin had performed the sonata several times in public in Paris, he dispiritedly told the publisher and patron Beljajev, with whome he was friends: "I have admittedly finished the sonata, yet I am completely dissatisfied with it, even though it has been revised seven times." The composer was only happy w...
Romantic (1897). Scriabin's third piano sonata is an early composition that was still fully written in the romantic tradition. For a long time it has been part of the core piano literature - and rightly so. In addition to the surviving sketches and the first edition (published in 1898), our edition of the sonata also takes into account a recording that Scriabin made of his work on a mechanical piano. The Russian Scriabin expert Valentina Rubcova knowledgeably sheds light on this unusual source si...
20th Century. 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 tradition, the late works keep bursting the bounds of tonality.The boldly outlined, two-movement Fourth Sonata marks a turning point, for it evokes the world of the "PoŠme de l'extase" with its mystical atmosphere hovering between ethereal rapture and ecstatic flight. The publication of opus 30 means that all...
20th Century. "A great poem for the piano" was how Scriabin described his fifth piano sonata. It was indeed composed at the same time as his great poem for orchestra "Le PoŠme de l'extase," and both works are based on the same literary program. Scriabin spent a long time honing the text, which represents his philosophic idea of the development of the world in poetic form, until its publication in a separate volume in 1906. About a year later Scriabin announced that he had completed his fifth sona...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. 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 edition, by the renowned Scriabin scholar Valentina Rubcova (Moscow), is based on the early printed editions and the composer's virtually complete autograph manuscript. -the publisher
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G. Henle urtext edition. Skrjabin 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 of a "mystery" - a "Gesamtkunstwerk" of artistic, theological and philosophical ideas. Its aim, as stated in his own words, is the raising up of the human spirit. No longer is the formal scaffolding of the work based principally around that of sonata form, but around the idea ...
20th Century (1912-13). 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 create a "Gesamtkunstwerk," and thus elevate human beings to a higher level of consciousness. This "Mysterium" was never completed, but his late piano sonatas-conceived as preliminary studies-enable us to see what moved Scriabin. He spent a particularly long time working on his ...
20th Century (1912-13). Skrjabin's 9th Sonata is often referred to as the "Black Mass." Unlike the 7th Sonata, the so-called "White Mass," this name did not stem from the composer. He writes: "In the ninth sonata I came closer than ever before to the Satanic...". The mystic-dark sphere fascinated Skrjabin. Anyone who listens to this bizarre work will involuntarily become caught up in the diabolical vortex - the music heads towards the sonata's dramatic conclusion as if being pulled in an undertow...
20th Century (1912-13). Skrjabin's Tenth Sonata was composed at the same time as the two Sonatas Nos. 8 and 9 in winter 1912/13. It was probably finished at the latest in June 1913. According to Leonid Sabenejev's reminiscences Skrjabin had already performed parts of the sonata to friends in spring 1913, saying that "he had succeeded in simplifying the harmonies without destroying the Sonata's psychological complexity." Following the first performance in Moscow, a reviewer wrote: "The Tenth Sonat...
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 editions, studied all of the available sources for each work. In many cases, Henle's were the first-ever Urtext editions, offering these highly complex musical texts in an immaculate, uncluttered, newly engraved format that was truly a landmark event! Whoever would like to study all these ten sonatas can n...
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 was composed in two versions, presumably between winter of 1880 and spring of 1881, and published one year later. Here, Strauss still plainly follows his compositional forebears from German Romanticism. The two middle movements of this demanding sonata in particular directly r...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. As well as Tchaikovsky's famous Piano Concerto, his extensive oeuvre for solo piano also makes an important contribution to romantic piano music. It includes "The Seasons" op. 37 - pleasant playable pieces that reflect a bygone bourgeois atmosphere and can therefore be assigned to the category of "domestic music." These twelve intimate mood-pictures enable the pianist to plot the course of the twelve months of the year. No. 11, "Troika", displays a Russian character parti...
Romantic. Alongside the famous violin concerto, numerous other violin works by Tchaikovsky have found their way into the standard repertoire for violin. An outstanding example is the Valse-Scherzo, which sparkles with witty playfulness. He composed it in1877 for the violinist Josef Kotek, a close friend and student. Our editor, the Russian Tchaikovsky scholar Alexander Komarov, has ensured that this Henle Urtext edition is absolutely faithful to the sources. He was able to consult all of the sour...
This extraordinary edition includes a selection of piano works by Chinese composers from the second half of the 20th century. They are marked by Western influences while also reflecting the multifaceted folk music of China. They range from short character pieces to sonatinas, from simple song arrangements to multi-movement cycles. These works are of medium difficulty and offer a representative cross-section of a musical cosmos that remains largely unknown in Europe. Predominantly pentatonic in ch...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. Includes CPE BACH First Prussian Sonata in F; BEETHOVEN Sonata in E, op 14/1; Sonata in G op 14/2; Sonata in Gm op 49/1; Sonata in G op 49/2; CLEMENTI Sonata in G op 39/; HAYDN Sonata in C Hob. XVI-35; Sonata in G Hob. XVI-40; MOZART Sonata in C, K.545; Sonata in F K.280 (189e); Sonata in G K.283.
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