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 "Pathtique," "Moonlight," "Tempest," "Waldstein," "Appassionata" and "Hammerklavier" sonatas, alongside other, less difficult works. Those volumes include Conrad Hansen's much-admired fingerings. For those who prefer an Urtext edition without fingerings, Henle now offers these new volumes 113461 and 113462. -the publisher