Category Archives: Urtext

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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Urtext and Urcontext

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Annette Oppermann

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

Posted in Fauré, Gabriel, Monday Postings, piano + voice, Schumann, Robert, Urtext | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

“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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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 →

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The melancholy horn – a short excursion into the monumental realm of Russian music

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Dominik Rahmer

The repertoire of the G. Henle publishing house is traditionally … Continue reading →

Posted in Élégie op. 44 (Glasunow), G. Henle Publishers, Glasunow, Alexander, Monday Postings, Mussorgsky, Modest, piano + horn, piano + viola, Rachmaninoff, Sergei, Rêverie op. 24 (Glasunow), Scriabin, Alexander, Urtext | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Spohr and Crusell join the club – new Urtext editions for clarinet

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Dominik Rahmer

Musicians have long known that not only pianists and string … Continue reading →

Posted in autograph, clarinet, Clarinet Concerto op. 26 (Spohr), Clarinet Concerto op. 5 (Crusell), Crusell, Bernhard Henrik, facsimile, first edition, G. Henle Publishers, Monday Postings, Spohr, Louis, Urtext | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

The year of the flute – special new editions in the Henle catalogue

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Norbert Müllemann

For some time past the G. Henle publishing house has … Continue reading →

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‘It is G! Bravo, and a thousand thanks.’ Günter Henle’s guestbook (and a wrong note in Beethoven)

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

The violinist Yehudi Menuhin was without question amongst Günter Henle’s … Continue reading →

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Franz Xaver comes to Henle: On the 170th anniversary of the death of Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (29 July 2014)

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Norbert Müllemann

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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

‘Servant of two masters’ – when the editor is caught between two composers

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Dominik Rahmer

The basic idea behind an Urtext edition is well known; … Continue reading →

Posted in arrangement, Bach, Johann Sebastian, Busoni, Ferruccio, Isoldens Liebestod from "Tristan und Isolde" (Wagner/Liszt), Liszt, Franz, Monday Postings, Partita BWV 1004 (J.S. Bach), piano solo, transcription, Urtext | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment