Category Archives: Composers

Is that still Urtext? On an often played variant in Sarasate’s “Carmen Fantasy”

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Peter Jost

To this day, the success of a new stage work … Continue reading →

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Bordering on the modern – The Urtext edition of Schumann’s “Myrthen” op. 25

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Annette Oppermann

Considering that specifically for 19th-century works the first edition is … Continue reading →

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Version alert! Or: Did Brahms ever revise his Horn Trio?

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Dominik Rahmer

A few days ago a customer enquiry momentarily gave me … Continue reading →

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Ten at a stroke – Scriabin’s piano sonatas in one volume

Posted on January 21, 2019 by Norbert Müllemann

Many a Henle fan familiar with our catalog will know … Continue reading →

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An unaccountable (?) fermata notation in Mozart’s string quartet K. 428

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

That Mozart, when writing carefully, graphically distinguishes between the dot … Continue reading →

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40 or 42? Rodolphe Kreutzer’s Etudes as Urtext edition

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Norbert Gertsch

There could not be a bigger difference: When you are … Continue reading →

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Debussy in Urtext – Part 6: Interview with Pascal Rogé

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Peter Jost

In the final part of our little series we want … Continue reading →

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A tear for or from Rossini?

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Annette Oppermann

November 13 marks the 150th anniversary of Gioacchino Rossini’s death, … Continue reading →

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Rachmaninoff revises Rachmaninoff. On the two versions of the Second Piano Sonata op. 36

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Dominik Rahmer

In my last blog posting I went into the genesis … Continue reading →

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From sketch to first edition: the (almost) seamless source documentation of Edward Elgar’s violin sonata

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Norbert Müllemann

Many Urtext editions and their sources cross the desk of … Continue reading →

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