Category Archives: Instrumentation

A “bad apple” in Camille Saint-Saëns’ 2nd cello sonata?

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Peter Jost

Saint-Saëns was likely far from the “genius thinking” of romanticism. … Continue reading →

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“… more or less at the most extreme limit of what can be achieved on the piano”: Busoni arranges Bach

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Norbert Müllemann

The second edition naming the two composers, Bach · Busoni, … Continue reading →

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A peek through the keyhole – Bartók’s “Allegro barbaro” as forerunner of the complete edition

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Annette Oppermann

With Béla Bartók, we have added a new composer to … Continue reading →

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The Trill of Doom – The pianist András Schiff’s revelatory study of Schubert’s final sonata

Posted on April 4, 2016 by publisher

By guest author Alex Ross[1] “What other work is so … Continue reading →

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Confusion about ties in Chopin’s Scherzo in b minor

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Norbert Müllemann

That Chopin variants can be exasperating to an editor – … Continue reading →

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Henry Vieuxtemps’s 5th Violin Concerto newly outfitted – Interview with Marie Cornaz and Ray Iwazumi

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Peter Jost

Among the just about one hundred compositions that the violin … Continue reading →

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The “parallel passage” – handle with care…

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Dominik Rahmer

If the ideal goal of a critical Urtext edition may … 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 →

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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 →

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