Category Archives: piano solo

At what tempo does Ravel’s Pavane “die”?

Posted on August 31, 2015 by publisher

During my assistantship this past year as Henlean, I was … Continue reading →

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Tristan at Troldhaugen – interesting finds in Grieg’s “Lyric Pieces”

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Dominik Rahmer

Among the most popular and successful of Edvard Grieg’s compositions … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

You presumably know Mozart’s A-major Piano Sonata KV 331 (with … Continue reading →

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Is it OK to add them? – The “missing” low notes in Beethoven’s piano sonatas

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Norbert Gertsch

Here’s a topic that pianists have been discussing since the … Continue reading →

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About the difficulties of notating ornamentation – The riddle of a neighbouring trill tone in Chopin’s Berceuse

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Norbert Müllemann

The topic “ornamentation” in music is truly endless. We have … Continue reading →

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Scarlatti Sonatas, Volume IV – the ultimate choice

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Norbert Müllemann

Though Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) was indeed born the same year … Continue reading →

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Composing made easy? On Erik Satie’s ‘Nocturnes’

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Peter Jost

It was not without good reason that the label ‘outsider’ … Continue reading →

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Franz Xaver comes to Henle: On the 170th anniversary of the death of Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (29 July 2014)

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Norbert Müllemann

That Henle is a Mozart publisher should not come as … Continue reading →

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‘Servant of two masters’ – when the editor is caught between two composers

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Dominik Rahmer

The basic idea behind an Urtext edition is well known; … Continue reading →

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Listeners are also only human

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

Observations on the necessity of body language in piano playing … Continue reading →

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