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Category Archives: piano solo
Beethoven’s easy piano sonatas. BEETHOVEN’S EASY PIANO SONATAS???
The title for today’s blog post was so easy to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Piano Sonatas
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Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” sonata – The stony path to a reliable music text
Almost exactly 20 years ago – as I had just … Continue reading
Froberger – retrospectively and prospectively
How time flies! – this hardly original realisation came to … Continue reading
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Tagged Froberger, variations
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Ten at a stroke – Scriabin’s piano sonatas in one volume
Many a Henle fan familiar with our catalog will know … Continue reading
Debussy in Urtext – Part 6: Interview with Pascal Rogé
In the final part of our little series we want … Continue reading
Rachmaninoff revises Rachmaninoff. On the two versions of the Second Piano Sonata op. 36
In my last blog posting I went into the genesis … Continue reading
Debussy in Urtext – Part 5: Corrections in the galley proofs for the piano piece “Masques”
Needless to say, every editor of an Urtext edition wishes … Continue reading
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Tagged Debussy, Masques, sources
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The première of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Sonata op. 36
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Saratov, Smolensk, Voronezh – what do … Continue reading
The “Picardy” major third in Chopin’s incredibly sad c-sharp minor Nocturne
What a liberating, even redemptive impact that the unexpected major … Continue reading
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Tagged Chopin; Nocturne in c sharp minor
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