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Category Archives: piano solo
‘Come sopra’ – clearly ambiguous!
The autograph of Beethoven’s piano sonata, Op. 90, is part … Continue reading
Brahms’s ‘Hungarian Dances’ – new finds in old sources
In 2011 the Brahms researcher Michael Struck made a striking … Continue reading
Posted in articulation, Brahms, Johannes, Hungarian Dances (Brahms), Monday Postings, notation, piano solo
Tagged Brahms, interpretation, notation, piano
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Too much access! – Isaac Albéniz revises his Iberia cycle
Editors of sheet music are not alone in suffering from … Continue reading
Posted in Albéniz, Isaac, autograph, first edition, Iberia (Albéniz), Monday Postings, piano solo, reprint, revision
Tagged Albéniz, first edition, Iberia, reprint, revision
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Scriabin plays Scriabin – Is the finale of the 3rd piano sonata too difficult?
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) was not only one of the outstanding … Continue reading
Will versus Caprice. On the the closing measures of Robert Schumann’s C-major Fantasy op. 17
What you can see here is the last page of … Continue reading
‘Play it again’ – is a repeat sign missing in Brahms’ Paganini Variations?
Some time ago we received an interesting query from a … Continue reading
Posted in autograph, Brahms, Johannes, first edition, Monday Postings, notation, Paganini Variations op. 35 (Brahms), piano solo
Tagged Brahms, notation, Paganini, piano, repeat, variation
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‘Fontana’s version’ – genuine Chopin?
A glance at the table of contents in our Urtext … Continue reading
Posted in Chopin, Frédéric, Monday Postings, piano solo, Urtext, variant reading, versions, Waltzes (Chopin)
Tagged Chopin, Fontana, versions
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Hit and miss? – A purportedly wrong note in Beethoven’s Sonata op. 14 no. 2
For almost ten years now I’ve been working with Murray … Continue reading
Going down, coming up or on the up and up? – stumbling block in Erik Satie’s ‘2ème Gymnopédie’
At first sight Urtext editions of Satie’s piano music do … Continue reading
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Tagged correction, Gymnopédie, Satie
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Debussy: to finger or not to finger…? Why we are adding fingering in the “Études”
In summer 1915 in the solitude of Pourville, the small … Continue reading
Posted in Debussy, Claude, Douze Études (Debussy), Monday Postings, piano solo, Urtext
Tagged Chopin, Couperin, Debussy, Études, fingering, piano, Rameau
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