Category Archives: Composers

Further new findings on the autograph of Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A major K. 331

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

Regular readers of the Henle blog will recollect: My last … Continue reading →

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Urtext and Urcontext

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Annette Oppermann

In our blog we have certainly already discussed the Urtext … Continue reading →

Posted in Fauré, Gabriel, Monday Postings, piano + voice, Schumann, Robert, Urtext | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

At what tempo does Ravel’s Pavane “die”?

Posted on August 31, 2015 by publisher

During my assistantship this past year as Henlean, I was … Continue reading →

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“Please don’t play it as it’s written in the music!” – Urtext and playability

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Peter Jost

A music-lesson scene that we all recall most reluctantly: A … Continue reading →

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Tristan at Troldhaugen – interesting finds in Grieg’s “Lyric Pieces”

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Dominik Rahmer

Among the most popular and successful of Edvard Grieg’s compositions … Continue reading →

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Does it work or doesn’t it? About page turns in the music

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Annette Oppermann

Haven’t you, too, sometimes wondered in a concert why the … Continue reading →

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The music world will sit up and take notice! On the new Urtext edition of Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A Major KV 331

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

You presumably know Mozart’s A-major Piano Sonata KV 331 (with … Continue reading →

Posted in autograph, Monday Postings, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, new source, piano solo, Piano Sonata K. 331 (W.A. Mozart), revision, Urtext | Tagged , , | 8 Comments

Is it OK to add them? – The “missing” low notes in Beethoven’s piano sonatas

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Norbert Gertsch

Here’s a topic that pianists have been discussing since the … Continue reading →

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About the difficulties of notating ornamentation – The riddle of a neighbouring trill tone in Chopin’s Berceuse

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Norbert Müllemann

The topic “ornamentation” in music is truly endless. We have … Continue reading →

Posted in Bach, Johann Sebastian, Berceuse op. 57 (Chopin), Chopin, Frédéric, General, Monday Postings, notation, ornamentation, piano solo | Tagged , , , | 8 Comments

An amusing story and a serious problem – On Mendelssohn’s first concert piece for clarinet, basset horn and piano

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Peter Jost

For composers, commissions or dedications of works could pay off, … Continue reading →

Posted in autograph, Concert Piece op. 113 (Mendelssohn Bartholdy), first edition, genesis, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix, Monday Postings, piano + clarinet + basset horn, variant reading | Tagged , , | Leave a comment