Breitkopf & Härtel Urtext

Richard Strauss era consapevole (al più tardi dal successo del suo "Don Juan") della sua fama e soprattutto del suo "valore" come compositore, cosa che lo spinse, tra l'altro, a trascrivere nuovamente...

La Quinta Sinfonia "Lenore" op. 177 fu composta nel 1872 e mostra Joachim Raff come rappresentante di una via di mezzo tra l'estetica della Nuova Germania e la tradizione sinfonica. Deve il suo appell...

Strauss had originally intended that Don Quixote always be performed, if possible, together with Heldenleben, “since Don Q. in particular is only fully comprehensible alongside Heldenleben.” To date,...

L'oratorio pasquale BWV 249 fu eseguito per la prima volta la domenica di Pasqua del 1725 con il testo "Venite, affrettatevi e correte". Nel conteggio del nuovo BWV, questo è già BWV 249.3, dopo due c...

Si dice che "Il Danubio Blu" sia l'inno segreto dell'Austria e che, insieme alla "Marcia di Radetzky", sia il tradizionale bis del concerto annuale di Capodanno dell'Orchestra Filarmonica di Vienna. G...

Johann Strauß Sohn rivoluzionò il valzer viennese nel XIX secolo e lo rese popolare in tutto il mondo. Le sue opere, come i famosi valzer "Il bel Danubio blu" op. 314 e "Racconti dal bosco di Vienna"...

La "Symphonie fantastique" di Sibelius Il 1919 fu un anno veramente "sinfonico" nell'opera di Jean Sibelius: egli revisionò la sua Quinta, iniziò la Sesta e allo stesso tempo abbozzò una "Fantasia sin...

Quando e dove fu scritto il Concerto per flauto di Mozart e per chi? 1777 o 1778, a Salisburgo o a Mannheim? Quanto pagò effettivamente Ferdinand Dejean, solo 96 o i 200 fiorini promessi?

Orchestrally-conceived, full of energetic vigor, and at times uncompromisingly modern: The two captivating quartets are now available as Urtext editions. With his first String Quartet in D minor, op....

Orchestrally-conceived, full of energetic vigor, and at times uncompromisingly modern: The two captivating quartets are now available as Urtext editions. With his first String Quartet in D minor, op....

In view of Mendelssohn's strong revising obsession, the quintets pose some challenges to the editor: in the A-major quintet, after he replaced an inner movement and switched the order of the movements...

Some eighteen years elapsed between Raff’s first counted String Quartet op. 77 and his Quartets Nos. 6–8 op. 192, combined as one work. As such, Raff parted with the weighty single opus in quartet com...

Some eighteen years elapsed between Raff’s first counted String Quartet op. 77 and his Quartets Nos. 6–8 op. 192, combined as one work. As such, Raff parted with the weighty single opus in quartet com...

Some eighteen years elapsed between Raff’s first counted String Quartet op. 77 and his Quartets Nos. 6–8 op. 192, combined as one work. As such, Raff parted with the weighty single opus in quartet com...

Questi Impromptus sono arrangiamenti degli impromptus per pianoforte dell'op. 5. La data esatta dell'arrangiamento degli Improvvisi per pianoforte per orchestra d'archi non è attualmente nota, ma è av...

Exactly 300 years after Bach completed his unique cosmos of the Sei Solo á Violino senza Basso accompagnato, Kolja Lessing is presenting a collection, rich in discovery, of also 6 solo violin works in...

Hasslers Liedsammlung 'Lustgarten Neuer Teutscher Gesäng' (1601) war so beliebt, dass sie um 1640 vollständig für Tasteninstrumente eingerichtet wurde. Martin Böcker hat für den Erstdruck 25 wirkungsv...

In his Preludes and Fugues, Johann Sebastian Bach made decisive contributions to the development of this genre tradition. The importance of this work group in his own organ oeuvre is confirmed by the...

In his Preludes and Fugues, Johann Sebastian Bach made decisive contributions to the development of this genre tradition. The importance of this work group in his own organ oeuvre is confirmed by the...

Although the 'fantasia' was already considered as old-fashioned around 1700, this genre exerted a particular fascination on the very young Bach - he had since relocated to Köthen - and the experienced...

Although the 'fantasia' was already considered as old-fashioned around 1700, this genre exerted a particular fascination on the very young Bach - he had since relocated to Köthen - and the experienced...

Genres such as sonata, trio and concerto were initially uncommon in the keyboard music of the early 18th century. Thus it comes as no surprise that many of the pieces in this volume are arrangements b...

Volume 6 contains the three collections that Bach himself took to the printer: the Dritter Teil der Clavier-Übung was published in 1739; the Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art ('Schübler-Choräle') an...

The basic repertoire of the 45 choral preludes of the Orgelbüchlein is hard to get by for any organist. Edited by Sven Hiemke, the volume offers the best possible prerequisites for everyday use. The m...

Volume 8 presents the work group called the 'Leipziger Choräle.' Next to the late versions compiled and entered by Bach himself in the manuscript 'P 271', all of the early versions with their sometime...