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At what tempo does Ravel’s Pavane “die”?
During my assistantship this past year as Henlean, I was … Continue reading
Posted in first edition, Monday Postings, Pavane (Ravel), piano solo, Ravel, Maurice, tempo
Tagged Pavane, Ravel, Tempo
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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
Tagged Mahler, notation, piano quartet
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Tristan at Troldhaugen – interesting finds in Grieg’s “Lyric Pieces”
Among the most popular and successful of Edvard Grieg’s compositions … Continue reading
Posted in autograph, Grieg, Edvard, Lyric Pieces (Grieg), Monday Postings, piano solo, sketches, variant reading
Tagged accidentals, Grieg, piano, variants
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Does it work or doesn’t it? About page turns in the music
Haven’t you, too, sometimes wondered in a concert why the … Continue reading
Posted in Bach, Johann Sebastian, Monday Postings, Reger, Max, Schubert, Franz
Tagged fold out, page turns
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The music world will sit up and take notice! On the new Urtext edition of Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A Major KV 331
You presumably know Mozart’s A-major Piano Sonata KV 331 (with … Continue reading
Is it OK to add them? – The “missing” low notes in Beethoven’s piano sonatas
Here’s a topic that pianists have been discussing since the … Continue reading
Posted in autograph, Beethoven, Ludwig van, first edition, letter, Monday Postings, Murray Perahia, piano solo, Piano Sonata op. 10 nr. 3 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 101 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 106 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 109 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 110 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 111 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 14 nr. 1 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 2 nr. 3 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 31 nr. 2 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 7 (Beethoven), pitch range
Tagged Beethoven, Murray Perahia, piano sonata, Sonata
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About the difficulties of notating ornamentation – The riddle of a neighbouring trill tone in Chopin’s Berceuse
The topic “ornamentation” in music is truly endless. We have … Continue reading
Posted in Bach, Johann Sebastian, Berceuse op. 57 (Chopin), Chopin, Frédéric, General, Monday Postings, notation, ornamentation, piano solo
Tagged Bach, Chopin, Ornamentation, Telemann
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On a terribly wrong dynamic marking in the first movement of K. 499
In my last blog posting I reported on my current, … Continue reading
The melancholy horn – a short excursion into the monumental realm of Russian music
The repertoire of the G. Henle publishing house is traditionally … Continue reading
Posted in Élégie op. 44 (Glasunow), G. Henle Publishers, Glasunow, Alexander, Monday Postings, Mussorgsky, Modest, piano + horn, piano + viola, Rachmaninoff, Sergei, Rêverie op. 24 (Glasunow), Scriabin, Alexander, Urtext
Tagged Élégie, Glazunov, horn, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Rêverie, Russia, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky, viola
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