{"id":4378,"date":"2017-04-24T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henle.de\/blog\/en\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2017-04-25T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T13:23:17","slug":"at-the-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/2017\/04\/24\/at-the-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAt the Piano\u201d \u2013 lends colour to the Henle catalogue!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Even the visual design is a little revolution for Henle: after being in publishing for nearly 70 years we are for the first time bringing out a series of Urtext piano editions without just the classic blue cover, but with a sort of bright yellow horizontal \u201cbranding\u201d mark added \u2013 and with good reason, since our new series \u201cAt the Piano\u201d is forging a new path in many respects.<\/p>\n

Twelve volumes already appeared in German some time ago, but now finally there is also an English version of \u201cAt the Piano\u201d. To each of 12 famous composers we\u2019ve devoted an anthology volume containing carefully selected and annotated piano pieces. Here you will find all the classic names in the piano world: Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Grieg and Debussy.<\/p>\n

Retained is the crucial quality characteristic of \u00a0G. Henle publishers: It goes without saying that all of the \u201cAt the Piano\u201d volumes reproduce the same impeccable music text of our previous Urtext editions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the Piano\u201d does, however, differ from the usual \u201cBest of\u201d albums because of a special concept that we\u2019ve developed together with the pianist and veteran pedagogue, Prof. Sylvia Hewig-Tr\u00f6scher<\/a> of the Munich Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik<\/em>. The individual pieces in each volume are ordered from easiest possible for the beginner, through those of \u201cmedium difficulty\u201d, to the somewhat more demanding pieces at the end (level 6 or 6\/7 according to the Henle scale<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In addition, the pieces are selected to provide specific technical challenges for preparing the pianist for subsequent pieces, so that playing through the volume is not just a matter of starting at the front and finishing at the back, but of \u201cmaking progress\u201d at the same time.<\/p>\n

The brief pedagogical introductions for each piece, newly penned by Prof. Hewig-Tr\u00f6scher, serve as an important support in this learning process. Not hidden in an appendix at the end of the volume or in footnotes, but convenient for reading directly ahead of each piece, they emphasise its technical and interpretative features, helping the player over the largest hurdles. The historical commentary, also drawing attention to variants or problems in the musical score (such as, for example, errors in the sources that had to be corrected), is also very interesting and useful:<\/p>\n

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Of course, the pieces included were not selected merely on the basis of their pedagogical value \u2013 as the subtitle already reveals, these are \u201cwell-known original pieces\u201d, so every Beethoven lover will certainly find \u201cF\u00fcr Elise\u201d and the first movement of the \u201cMoonlight\u201d sonata, and Debussy fans won\u2019t have to do without either the Arabesque No. 1, \u201cLa fille aux cheveux de lin\u201d or \u201cClair de lune.\u201d (Details of the contents for all 12 volumes can be found in this overview<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Many volumes also contain, in addition, special \u201cgoodies\u201d otherwise rarely found in reliable new editions. Or, did you know that for one of his piano students Mozart composed a proper \u201cCzerny Etude\u201d, complete with his very own fingerings?<\/p>\n

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Likewise, Franz Liszt reveals not his virtuoso but his tender side in two small piano miniatures once composed for Olga von Meyendorff:<\/p>\n

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Incidentally, for the graphic design of the \u201cAt the Piano\u201d series we were able to obtain the services of Kochan & Partner, the renowned Munich agency that with great attention to detail ensured a clear signature style for a harmonious co-existence of music score, texts and illustrations:<\/p>\n

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If you have once already taken piano lessons and now want to go back again to playing piano but don\u2019t know where to start, then \u201cAt the Piano\u201d is exactly what you need to return to the piano.<\/p>\n

Or, in the words of the German talk show host and actor Harald Schmidt who plays piano as a hobby and strongly recommends the \u201cAt the Piano\u201d series, \u201cIf I can do it, then so can you!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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