Romantic. A further edition in Henle's highly regarded Beethoven revisions bears witness to the fruitful collaboration with renowned artist Murray Perahia. As always, Perahia not only provides valuable fingering suggestions but also shares his personal thoughts on this work in a short essay. -the publisher
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Romantic. "The farewell / Vienna, May 4, 1809 / on the departure of his Imperial Highness the revered Archduke Rudolph" — Beethoven added this inscription to the manuscript of this sonata. It is today know by its French title les Adieux and numbersamongst the composer's best-loved piano works. The first movement of the sonata was presumably written directly before the archduke hurriedly left Vienna. Rudolph and other members of the imperial family fled to Hungary to avoid having to endure t...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. This famous sonata, one of Beethoven's most popular and characteristic works, has captions for each of its three movements: Les Adieux, L'Absence and Le Retour. An inexpensive single edition from volume 2 of Henle's complete reference edition of the Beethoven piano sonatas. -the publisher
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Romantic. "It is, aside from two passages, one of Beethoven's easiest; but as far as the performance of individual passages and its whole spirit is concerned, requires every kind of care," thus wrote a contemporary critic. And it is for this reason that Beethoven's Sonata op. 90 is extremely popular today, both with piano students and also with professional pianists. It provides enough challenges: for example the notorious tenth figures in the left hand and - in the words of a contemporary - "uni...
Includes the 2 Sonatas in opus 14 - number 9 in E (op14/1) and No 10 in G (op 14/2). Edited by Norbert Gertsch & Murray Perahia. Fingering by Murray Perahia. Beethoven only arranged one of his piano sonatas for a different instrumentation: an authentic arrangement of op 14/1 for string quartet still exists (it is published in an appendix to our edition of the String Quartets op. 18, HN 139/9139). He undertook this arrangement to protect himself from those made by others. For this reason he went ...
Hans von Blow described Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas as "Music's New Testament". Since its first appearance, Henle's complete two-volume edition (our 001881 and 004139) has been valued by specialists as the most dependable Urtext, and belongs in every pianist's library. It contains an inexhaustible treasure of pianistic and musical mastery, setting technically challenging works with a high level of name-recognition, such as the "Path‚tique," "Moonlight," "Tempest," "Waldstein," "Appassionata" an...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. Edited by Bertha Antonia Wallner. Fingering by Conrad Hansen. Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are often referred to as the "New Testament of Music" (Hans von Bulow). Since the publication of our complete edition in two volumes, experts have praised it as being the most reliable Urtext edition. Its contents: an almost inexhaustible wealth of pianistic, musical flights of inspiration, predominantly high profile works - the Sonatas "Pathetique," "Moonlight," "Storm," "Appassion...
Hans von Blow described Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas as "Music's New Testament". Since its first appearance, Henle's complete two-volume edition (our 001881 and 004139) has been valued by specialists as the most dependable Urtext, and belongs in every pianist's library. It contains an inexhaustible treasure of pianistic and musical mastery, setting technically challenging works with a high level of name-recognition, such as the "Path‚tique," "Moonlight," "Tempest," "Waldstein," "Appassionata" an...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. Edited by Bertha Antonia Wallner. Fingering by Conrad Hansen. Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are often referred to as the "New Testament of Music" (Hans von Bulow). Since the publication of our complete edition in two volumes, experts have praised it as being the most reliable Urtext edition. Its contents: an almost inexhaustible wealth of pianistic, musical flights of inspiration, predominantly high profile works - the Sonatas "Pathetique," "Moonlight," "Storm," "Appassion...
Romantic. The compositions united here provide a good overview of the diversity of the variation genre in Beethoven's early piano works - and present such moderate technical demands that even advanced beginners might try their hand at them. Beethoven found the models for these variations in popular song collections (WoO 64 on a Swiss song), contemporary opera performances (WoO 70 on "Nel cor piu non mi sento" by Giovanni Paisiello), and his own compositions (WoO 77 on a theme from the finale of P...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. This small volume comprises three variation cycles of Beethoven's which are brought together in Urtext editions that are technically fairly easy to master (level of difficulty 3-5). Two of them, the Variations on a Swiss Song WoO64 and the Variations on an original theme WoO 77, are already marked as "faciles" or "trŠs faciles" in the titles of the respective first editions. When Beethoven sent a manuscript of the Variations on a Theme from Paisiello's opera La Molinara t...
Romantic. Among the Variations on an Original Theme, WoO 80 from 1806 constitutes a special case in that Beethoven consciously draws on older practices. A chromatically descending bass line in the theme provides the foundation for the variations, its ostinato-like repetition lending the composition the air of a passacaglia. The revised musical text of the Henle Urtext edition, with an extensive preface and commentary section, was prepared on the basis of the Critical Report in the Beethoven Compl...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. Ludwig van Beethoven's 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor (WoO 80) for piano, dating from 1806, are both a magnificent concert piece and an outstanding etude. Only with Beethoven can an eight-measure theme contain so much melodic and harmonic energy. The variations, of eight measures each, flow into one another powerfully and without interruption, offering a veritable compendium of Beethoven's piano technique. The effect is of a mighty passacaglia. With the mor...
Romantic. 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 of keys; from one variation to the next, new tone colours and moods continue to unfold, spanning the pastoral and the funereal, while the melody of the theme remains largely unaltered. For the first time, the Variations op. 34, are now available from Henle in a ...
Variation form occupied Beethoven throughout his composing career. This first volume of Henle's two-volume edition of all his piano variations includes works from Beethoven's time in Bonn as well as his early years in Vienna, composed between 1783 and 1799. Beethoven mostly took his themes from arias or songs from stage works that were popular at the time. Besides offering simple figurations around the melodic lines, he also made more radical variations of his chosen material, pointing the way fo...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. Includes: • 10 Variations on “La stessa, la stessissima” by Salieri WoO 73 • 12 Variations WoO 68 • 12 Variations on a Russian Dance by Wranitzky WoO 71 • 13 Variations on “Es war einmal ein alter Mann” by Ditters von Dittersdorf WoO 66 • 24 Variations on “Venni Amore” by Righini WoO 65 • 6 Variations on a Swiss Song WoO 64 • 6 Variations on “Nel cor piu non mi sento” by Paisiello Wo...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. Includes: • 15 Variations (with Fugue) E flat major op. 35 • 32 Variations c minor WoO 80 • 5 Variations on “Rule Britannia” WoO 79 • 6 Easy variations G major WoO 77 • 6 Variations F major op. 34 • 6 Variations D major op. 76 • 7 Variations on “God Save the King” WoO 78 • 8 Variations on “T–ndeln und Scherzen” by S¾ssmayr WoO 76 • Appendix: 8 Variations on ...
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 Vienna years written between 1799 and 1823. Among them are groundbreaking works such as the two sets of variations on original themes opp. 34 and 35, the Variations in C minor WoO 80, and, as the final crown jewel, the Diabelli Variations op. 120. The revised musical text of the Urtext edition, with a...
The Scottish ballad "Edward" from J. G. Herders anthology of folk songs "Stimmen der V”lker in Liedern" made such a deep impression on Brahms that, as he told a friend, the melodies came to him effortlessly. "Edward" provided the motif for the first of four ballade compositions, musical tales of a dramatic romantic nature that were linked with memories of Clara Schumann for Brahms. Julius Grimm, to whom the pieces were dedicated, also said that "the Ballades are really for her." Robert Schumann w...
G. Henle urtext edition. Edited by Camilla Cai. 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 later shared with other pianists (e. g. Clara Schumann). It was only after he had largely given up this educational and pianistic activity that he considered publishing them. In order to reflect their level, he suggested "all kinds of instrumen...
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 for solo piano, as a year later he worked on other cycles when he was there. Amongst these late melancholy piano pieces, Op. 116 is in particular characterized by opposites. Four "dreamy" - according to Clara Schumann - intermezzi are juxtaposed with three "deeply passionate" capricci. Seven ...
Romantic. "No opus number" is what Brahms gave his astonished publisher to understand, when he offered him the Hungarian Dances for publication in 1869. He placed a great deal of importance on the fact that he had merely "set" popular Hungarian melodies and not composed new works as such. As true as this reservation is, it did not affect the success of these works. The Hungarian Dances are today without a doubt amongst Brahms' best-known compositions. Brahms himself made an arrangement of the dan...
Romantic. When Brahms's contemporaries heard the Piano Pieces Op. 118 that he had composed during his summer holiday in Ischl in 1893, they were delighted. Clara Schumann was one of the first to be allowed to get to know the new pieces, and she attested that they contained "a wealth of sentiment in the smallest of dimensions". Philipp Spitta fittingly said that the works were "perfect for slowly absorbing in solitude and tranquillity." -the publisher
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Romantic. G. Henle URTEXT edition. Contains: • Intermezzo in Am, op 118, no 1 • Intermezzo A, op. 118, no 2 • Ballad in Gm, op 118, no 3 • Intermezzo in Fm, op 118, no 4 • Romance in F, op 118, no 5 • Intermezzo Ebm, op 118, no 6
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Johannes Brahms' late piano works in the form of the two editions 514800 (paperbound) and 51480037 (clothbound) have been a cornerstone of the Henle catalog ever since the early 1950s. In 2011 the volume with piano pieces (51486014) was published in the new Brahms Complete Edition, an edition of these important works that reflected the latest in scholarly research. Having already published single volumes of Urtext editions of opus numbers 76, 79 and 116-119 with the up-to-date musical text in the...
Romantic. 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 be allowed to get to know the new pieces, and she attested that they contained “a wealth of sentiment in the smallest of dimensions”. Philipp Spitta fittingly said that the works were “perfect for slowly absorbing in solitude and tranquillity”. Opus 118 contains two of the composer's...