On a terribly wrong dynamic marking in the first movement of K. 499
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View ArticleAn amusing story and a serious problem – On Mendelssohn’s first concert piece...
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View ArticleAbout the difficulties of notating ornamentation – The riddle of a...
The topic “ornamentation” in music is truly endless. We have … Continue reading →
View ArticleIs 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 →
View ArticleThe music world will sit up and take notice! On the new Urtext edition of...
You presumably know Mozart’s A-major Piano Sonata KV 331 (with … Continue reading →
View ArticleDoes 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 →
View ArticleTristan at Troldhaugen – interesting finds in Grieg’s “Lyric Pieces”
Among the most popular and successful of Edvard Grieg’s compositions … Continue reading →
View Article“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 →
View ArticleAt what tempo does Ravel’s Pavane “die”?
During my assistantship this past year as Henlean, I was … Continue reading →
View ArticleUrtext and Urcontext
In our blog we have certainly already discussed the Urtext … Continue reading →
View ArticleFurther new findings on the autograph of Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A major K. 331
Regular readers of the Henle blog will recollect: My last … Continue reading →
View ArticleA Bohemian in America: Is Dvořák’s String Quartet in F Major wrongly accented?
Antonín Dvořák, director of the National Conservatory of Music in … Continue reading →
View ArticleWhat’s new with Liszt’s b-minor sonata
With barely concealed exasperation Clara Schumann writes on 25 … Continue reading →
View ArticleFrom zero to a hundred in seven years: Beethoven’s wind chamber music at...
The fact that the winds first found their way into … Continue reading →
View ArticleChristmas Blog
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View ArticleThe “parallel passage” – handle with care…
If the ideal goal of a critical Urtext edition may … Continue reading →
View ArticleHenry Vieuxtemps’s 5th Violin Concerto newly outfitted – Interview with Marie...
Among the just about one hundred compositions that the violin … Continue reading →
View ArticleConfusion about ties in Chopin’s Scherzo in b minor
That Chopin variants can be exasperating to an editor – … Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Trill of Doom – The pianist András Schiff’s revelatory study of...
By guest author Alex Ross[1] “What other work is so … Continue reading →
View ArticleA peek through the keyhole – Bartók’s “Allegro barbaro” as forerunner of the...
With Béla Bartók, we have added a new composer to … Continue reading →
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