Category Archives: Subject

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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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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The music world will sit up and take notice! On the new Urtext edition of Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A Major KV 331

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

You presumably know Mozart’s A-major Piano Sonata KV 331 (with … Continue reading →

Posted in autograph, Monday Postings, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, new source, piano solo, Piano Sonata K. 331 (W.A. Mozart), revision, Urtext | Tagged , , | 8 Comments

Is it OK to add them? – The “missing” low notes in Beethoven’s piano sonatas

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Norbert Gertsch

Here’s a topic that pianists have been discussing since the … Continue reading →

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About the difficulties of notating ornamentation – The riddle of a neighbouring trill tone in Chopin’s Berceuse

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Norbert Müllemann

The topic “ornamentation” in music is truly endless. We have … Continue reading →

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An amusing story and a serious problem – On Mendelssohn’s first concert piece for clarinet, basset horn and piano

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Peter Jost

For composers, commissions or dedications of works could pay off, … Continue reading →

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On a terribly wrong dynamic marking in the first movement of K. 499

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

In my last blog posting I reported on my current, … Continue reading →

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