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Category Archives: Instrumentation
Beethoven’s easy piano sonatas. BEETHOVEN’S EASY PIANO SONATAS???
The title for today’s blog post was so easy to … Continue reading
Posted in arrangement, Beethoven, Ludwig van, Monday Postings, piano solo
Tagged Beethoven, Piano Sonatas
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Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” sonata – The stony path to a reliable music text
Almost exactly 20 years ago – as I had just … Continue reading
Beethoven and the viola
Piano concertos and sonatas, violin concerto and sonatas, cello sonatas … Continue reading
Dont worry, be happy – the first critical Urtext edition of etudes by Jakob Dont
Every violinist is most likely acquainted with them from violin … Continue reading
An insightful correction in Mozart’s autograph of the String Quartet in C major K. 170
In a few weeks a long-cherished dream of mine will … Continue reading
Froberger – retrospectively and prospectively
How time flies! – this hardly original realisation came to … Continue reading
Posted in Froberger, Johann Jacob, Monday Postings, piano solo
Tagged Froberger, variations
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What did the composer want? On a strange measure in Saint-Saëns’ Romance for Flute op. 37
Anyone who compares the edition currently on the market of … Continue reading
Posted in Monday Postings, op. 37 (Saint-Saëns), piano + flute, Romance, Saint-Saëns, Camille, versions
Tagged Romance op. 37, Saint-Saëns
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The other type of sources: Letters about Max Bruch’s “Kol Nidrei”
An Urtext edition – and not just only from Henle … Continue reading
Posted in Bruch, Max, Kol Nidrei (Bruch), letter, Monday Postings, piano + violoncello
Tagged Bruch, Kol Nidrei
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Schumann revisited – about an odd accidental in the Fantasiestücke, op. 73
We report as a rule in our blog posts on … Continue reading
Is that still Urtext? On an often played variant in Sarasate’s “Carmen Fantasy”
To this day, the success of a new stage work … Continue reading