Score Parties. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. When Beethoven wrote these three quartets he was 15 years old and a composition student of Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. They reveal a strong Mozartian influence while the brilliant piano writing already gives a sense of the mature Beethoven. He may conceivably have written the works for the wealthy Mastiaux family in Bonn, as he gave piano lessons to …

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's horn concertos: the Mozart expert Henrik Wiese edits the central work genre of Viennese classicism according to the current status of international Mozart research. Mozart wrote the Horn Concerto K. 417 - like the other works of this genre as well - for his horn-playing friend Joseph Leutgeb. The jokes which the composer made at Leutgeb's expe…

Dvorak's Serenade in E major for string orchestra is one of his most popular and frequently played works. It was written in the spring of 1875, when he had just experienced his first successes at the conductor's podium and had received a state arts scholarship. The score and parts were published by Bote and Bock, Berlin, in 1879. This Urtext edition is based on the composer's autograph score. It c…

Dvorák, Antonín Concerto for Violin and Orchestra A minor op. 53 This study score is based on our recently published new scholarly-critical edition (BA 10422) of Dvorák's op. 53, his only violin concerto. Besides the original print, the edition takes into account Dvorák's autograph, which served as a model for the engraving. A fresh evaluation of the autograph has made it possible to reconstruct …

Volume 1 of Bach’s organ music presents some of the most frequently played organ pieces altogether. Here they appear in a new engraving based on the New Bach Edition (NBA).This updated edition takes into account the latest findings of Bach scholarship: thus, for example, a newly-discovered copy of the first edition containing inscriptions in Bach’s own hand could be incorporated into the musical t…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Beethoven's 'Romances' are performed all over the world, yet how many conductors, performers and listeners are aware that op. 50 which was incidentally composed before op. 40, comes down to us in an unfinished form' The autograph score contains little to no articulation or dynamics and to the present day the work has existed only in highly over-edited publications. The pe…

Par RAVEL MAURICE. In 1920 Maurice Ravel was asked by his publisher Durand to contribute to an issue of La Revue Musicale dedicated to Claude Debussy. A supplement included the first movement of Ravel’s Sonata as well as works contributed by Debussy’s friends Stravinsky, Satie, Dukas, Bartok and de Falla to name only a few. This 1st movement of Ravel’s Sonata, of which the autograph is lost, then …

Epistelsonate. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. The autograph of the Epistle Sonata KV 329 was obtained in the Mozart commemorative year of 1991 from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. The present new edition is the first critical edition which is based on the autograph./ Répertoire / 2 Hautbois, 2 Cors, 2 Clarinettes, Timbales, 2 Vio

Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Schumann wrote his 'Romances' op. 94 in 1849, a very fruitful year for him. He allegedly presented them as his 'one hundredth opusculum' to his wife Clara at Christmas. The autograph score is considered lost today. This new edition was prepared fromthe first edition of 1851 as well as from the autograph sketches in the Gerhard Stempnik Collection. This complete new edition als…