Category Archives: Instrumentation

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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The other type of sources: Letters about Max Bruch’s “Kol Nidrei”

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Annette Oppermann

An Urtext edition – and not just only from Henle … Continue reading →

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Schumann revisited – about an odd accidental in the Fantasiestücke, op. 73

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Dominik Rahmer

We report as a rule in our blog posts on … Continue reading →

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Is that still Urtext? On an often played variant in Sarasate’s “Carmen Fantasy”

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Peter Jost

To this day, the success of a new stage work … Continue reading →

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Version alert! Or: Did Brahms ever revise his Horn Trio?

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Dominik Rahmer

A few days ago a customer enquiry momentarily gave me … Continue reading →

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