Category Archives: Monday Postings

A Bohemian in America: Is Dvořák’s String Quartet in F Major wrongly accented?

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Peter Jost

Antonín Dvořák, director of the National Conservatory of Music in … 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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Citius, altius, fortius – faster, higher, stronger! Beethoven’s Olympian efforts in the treble

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Norbert Gertsch

Having written in May this year about the low tones, … Continue reading →

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“Smfz” – On some unconventional dynamic markings in our Urtext editions

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Dominik Rahmer

Dynamics are in a way the salt in the musical … Continue reading →

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Urtext and Urcontext

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Annette Oppermann

In our blog we have certainly already discussed the Urtext … Continue reading →

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At what tempo does Ravel’s Pavane “die”?

Posted on August 31, 2015 by publisher

During my assistantship this past year as Henlean, I was … Continue reading →

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Summer rest

Posted on August 3, 2015 by publisher

We’re getting ready to travel and of course our Urtext-editions … Continue reading →

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Who does the pedalling? On the use of the pedal in music for piano duets

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Norbert Müllemann

Nowadays we automatically associate music for piano duet with the … Continue reading →

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“Please don’t play it as it’s written in the music!” – Urtext and playability

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Peter Jost

A music-lesson scene that we all recall most reluctantly: A … Continue reading →

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Tristan at Troldhaugen – interesting finds in Grieg’s “Lyric Pieces”

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Dominik Rahmer

Among the most popular and successful of Edvard Grieg’s compositions … Continue reading →

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