Category Archives: Instrumentation

“Bozen this pigsty”. Why there’s no “Bozen string quartet” by Mozart.

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

When for the third and last time at the end … Continue reading →

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A fresh look at Bach’s piano partitas

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Norbert Müllemann

Many readers (and pianists!) will already have noticed that we … Continue reading →

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Beethoven – creator of concert overtures?

Posted on September 28, 2020 by Peter Jost

Beethoven as the great innovator of forms and genres generated … Continue reading →

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Beethoven’s easy piano sonatas. BEETHOVEN’S EASY PIANO SONATAS???

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Norbert Müllemann

The title for today’s blog post was so easy to … Continue reading →

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Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” sonata – The stony path to a reliable music text

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Norbert Gertsch

Almost exactly 20 years ago – as I had just … Continue reading →

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Beethoven and the viola

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Norbert Gertsch

Piano concertos and sonatas, violin concerto and sonatas, cello sonatas … Continue reading →

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Dont worry, be happy – the first critical Urtext edition of etudes by Jakob Dont

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Dominik Rahmer

Every violinist is most likely acquainted with them from violin … Continue reading →

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An insightful correction in Mozart’s autograph of the String Quartet in C major K. 170

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

In a few weeks a long-cherished dream of mine will … Continue reading →

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Froberger – retrospectively and prospectively

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Norbert Müllemann

How time flies! – this hardly original realisation came to … Continue reading →

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What did the composer want? On a strange measure in Saint-Saëns’ Romance for Flute op. 37

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Peter Jost

Anyone who compares the edition currently on the market of … Continue reading →

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