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A wonderful little devilry to start with
When you’re new to an enterprise, it’s very agreeable when … Continue reading
Elgar’s Serenade for Strings: spring sunshine garbed in Henle Urtext. Interview with Rupert Marshall-Luck
The start of 2024 is a special moment for the … Continue reading
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What’s new with Liszt’s b-minor sonata
With barely concealed exasperation Clara Schumann writes on 25 … Continue reading
A Bohemian in America: Is Dvořák’s String Quartet in F Major wrongly accented?
Antonín Dvořák, director of the National Conservatory of Music in … Continue reading
Who does the pedalling? On the use of the pedal in music for piano duets
Nowadays we automatically associate music for piano duet with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dvorak, notation, pedalling, piano for 4 hands
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“Please don’t play it as it’s written in the music!” – Urtext and playability
A music-lesson scene that we all recall most reluctantly: A … Continue reading
Posted in Mahler, Gustav, Monday Postings, notation, Piano quartet (Mahler), Urtext
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“Liebestod” revisited – yet more problems in Franz Liszt’s transcription of Wagner
Some time ago we had previously devoted a blog post … Continue reading
Spring Cleaning – new setup guidelines at the Henle house
You ought to underline today’s date in the calendar in … Continue reading
Posted in G. Henle Publishers, Monday Postings, notation, Reger, Max, Violin
Tagged notation, parts, Reger
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Brahms’s ‘Hungarian Dances’ – new finds in old sources
In 2011 the Brahms researcher Michael Struck made a striking … Continue reading
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‘Play it again’ – is a repeat sign missing in Brahms’ Paganini Variations?
Some time ago we received an interesting query from a … Continue reading
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