Category Archives: piano solo

Autumnal thoughts on “Buntes Blatt” in f-sharp minor by Robert Schumann

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

A little birthday gift for András Schiff (December 2016) Coloured … Continue reading →

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Johann Jacob Froberger on his 400th birthday

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Norbert Müllemann

Many Urtext enthusiasts will already have noticed in 2014 that … Continue reading →

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Anton Webern: Now also “in blue”!

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Norbert Müllemann

We are always welcoming new composers to our Henle catalogue. … 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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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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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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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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