Category Archives: Composers

Christmas Blog

Posted on December 21, 2015 by publisher

Dear Reader, we most warmly thank you for your interest … Continue reading →

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From zero to a hundred in seven years: Beethoven’s wind chamber music at Henle publishers

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Annette Oppermann

The fact that the winds first found their way into … Continue reading →

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What’s new with Liszt’s b-minor sonata

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Norbert Müllemann

  With barely concealed exasperation Clara Schumann writes on 25 … Continue reading →

Posted in accent, autograph, Claudio Arrau, copy, dynamics, facsimile, first edition, Liszt, Franz, Marc-André Hamelin, Monday Postings, new source, notation, piano solo, Piano Sonata b-minor (Liszt), revision, Urtext | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

A Bohemian in America: Is Dvořák’s String Quartet in F Major wrongly accented?

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Peter Jost

Antonín Dvořák, director of the National Conservatory of Music in … Continue reading →

Posted in accent, articulation, autograph, Dvořák, Antonín, first edition, G. Henle Publishers, Monday Postings, notation, Pražák Quartett, string quartet, String Quartet F major op. 96 (American Quartet) (Dvořák) | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

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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