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Category Archives: piano solo
The music world will sit up and take notice! On the new Urtext edition of Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A Major KV 331
You presumably know Mozart’s A-major Piano Sonata KV 331 (with … Continue reading
Is it OK to add them? – The “missing” low notes in Beethoven’s piano sonatas
Here’s a topic that pianists have been discussing since the … Continue reading
Posted in autograph, Beethoven, Ludwig van, first edition, letter, Monday Postings, Murray Perahia, piano solo, Piano Sonata op. 10 nr. 3 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 101 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 106 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 109 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 110 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 111 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 14 nr. 1 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 2 nr. 3 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 31 nr. 2 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 7 (Beethoven), pitch range
Tagged Beethoven, Murray Perahia, piano sonata, Sonata
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About the difficulties of notating ornamentation – The riddle of a neighbouring trill tone in Chopin’s Berceuse
The topic “ornamentation” in music is truly endless. We have … Continue reading
Posted in Bach, Johann Sebastian, Berceuse op. 57 (Chopin), Chopin, Frédéric, General, Monday Postings, notation, ornamentation, piano solo
Tagged Bach, Chopin, Ornamentation, Telemann
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Scarlatti Sonatas, Volume IV – the ultimate choice
Though Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) was indeed born the same year … Continue reading
Composing made easy? On Erik Satie’s ‘Nocturnes’
It was not without good reason that the label ‘outsider’ … Continue reading
Posted in autograph, Monday Postings, Nocturnes (Satie), notation, piano solo, Satie, Erik, variant reading
Tagged harmony, Nocturnes, Orledge, Satie
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Franz Xaver comes to Henle: On the 170th anniversary of the death of Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (29 July 2014)
That Henle is a Mozart publisher should not come as … Continue reading
Posted in Andreas Staier, autograph, first edition, Flute Rondo (F.X.W. Mozart), G. Henle Publishers, Monday Postings, Mozart, Franz Xaver Wolfgang, piano + flute, piano solo, Urtext
Tagged anniversary, Diabelli-Variations, Don Giovanni-Minuet, flute rondo, Franz Xaver Wolfgang, Henle, HN 1180, HN 958, HN 959, Karsten Nottelmann, Katalog, Mozart, Polonaises mélancholiques, son, urtext, variations
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‘Servant of two masters’ – when the editor is caught between two composers
The basic idea behind an Urtext edition is well known; … Continue reading
Listeners are also only human
Observations on the necessity of body language in piano playing … Continue reading
Posted in Alfred Brendel, Beethoven, Ludwig van, Hungarian Rhapsody (Liszt), Lang Lang, Liszt, Franz, Marc-André Hamelin, Monday Postings, piano solo, Piano Sonata op. 31 nr. 3 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 7 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 81a Les Adieux (Beethoven), Victor Borge
Tagged Beethoven, body language, Hungarian Rhapsody, interpretation, Liszt, piano, piano player, piano sonata
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A wrong ‘D’ goes out into the world – Rachmaninoff’s Prélude in c sharp minor under the magnifying glass
The last blog posting on 6 January has already let … Continue reading
Corelli, La Folia and Rachmaninoff’s Variations, Op. 42
In May and June 1931 Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his famous … Continue reading