Category Archives: Urtext

Going down, coming up or on the up and up? – stumbling block in Erik Satie’s ‘2ème Gymnopédie’

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Peter Jost

At first sight Urtext editions of Satie’s piano music do … Continue reading →

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Debussy: to finger or not to finger…? Why we are adding fingering in the “Études”

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Dominik Rahmer

In summer 1915 in the solitude of Pourville, the small … Continue reading →

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On the lookout for the lost measure: Bach’s C-major Prelude from the Well-Tempered Clavier I

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Norbert Müllemann

Those in the know among our readers will be aware … Continue reading →

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How an original Mozart A flat escaped from the dust. On the slow movement of the C- minor Piano Sonata K. 457

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

Very vividly I recall the Mozart sensation of the year … Continue reading →

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Sometimes you have to dig deeper! Or: What the violist should really play in Hoffmeister’s concerto.

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Norbert Gertsch

Most violists groan whenever the names Hoffmeister and Stamitz are … Continue reading →

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