Premiered in London in 1733, Handel’s “magic opera” “Orlando” is based on a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capeci that derives indirectly from Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem “Orlando furioso”.
This subject was very popular at the time and was ...

The new scholarly-critical edition of the score of Rameau’s “ballet héroïque” Les Indes galantes finally clears up its convoluted source history. At the first performance, on 23 August 1735, it consisted of a prologue and three acts: Le Turc ...

The first great orchestral psalm

Mendelssohn’s first great orchestral psalm took almost six years to complete, from the initial sketches and the first version of 1830 to the final version of 1835. Its premiere which took place at the ...

The first great orchestral psalm

Mendelssohn’s first great orchestral psalm took almost six years to complete, from the initial sketches and the first version of 1830 to the final version of 1835. Its premiere which took place at the ...

Dvorák’s “Slavonic Rhapsodies” op. 45 were composed in 1878 and issued by the publisher Simrock, Berlin the following year. These three independent orchestral works (in D major, G minor and A-flat major) were published with the same opus number ...

A descriptive text to this edition will be provided at the beginning of July.

Following the publication of Dvorák’s early set of love songs “Cypresses”, all his other songs with piano accompaniment are now appearing in Urtext editions.

“Songs II” includes the mature works from Dvorák’s late period. Besides the ...

Following the publication of Dvorák’s early set of love songs “Cypresses”, all his other songs with piano accompaniment are now appearing in Urtext editions.

“Songs II” includes the mature works from Dvorák’s late period. Besides the ...

A popular Requiem arranged for female voices

In this arrangement of Fauré’s “Requiem” for soloists (SA), female choir (SSAA) and organ, the tenor and bass parts are distributed among the altos which has necessitated some judicious adaptations ...

Diese kompakte Sammlung steht unter dem Motto des Regensburger Jugendchorfestivals 2017 „Unser Licht ist Christus“. Sie enthält Motetten, geistliche Lieder, Wechselgesänge sowie Kanons in verschiedenen Sprachen und Besetzungen.

Als Herzstück ...

Dvorák’s Violin Concerto was composed between 1879 and 1882, with the active assistance of Joseph Joachim, and was issued by the publisher Fritz Simrock, Berlin in 1883. Its premiere took place in October of that same year with František Ondrícek ...

Dvorák’s Violin Concerto was composed between 1879 and 1882, with the active assistance of Joseph Joachim, and was issued by the publisher Fritz Simrock, Berlin in 1883. Its premiere took place in October of that same year with František Ondrícek ...

It is hard to believe that this highly lyrical and moderately difficult sonata in the unusual key of F-sharp major was preceded by the supremely dramatic “Appassionata Sonata” in F minor op. 57 (BA 10852). Beethoven dedicated the sonata op. ...

In a letter to Breitkopf & Härtel Beethoven called his small sonata op. 79 “Sonate facile” or “Sonatina”. With its moderate technical difficulty, the work is very well suited for advanced beginners. We have to thank Muzio Clementi for the creation ...

Dvorák’s Piano Quartet in D major, though composed at the height of his artistic maturity, is to date unjustly overshadowed by his more popular works.
It was written within the space of 18 days in the summer of 1875 and was later revised, ...

Das Abschiednehmen von einem geliebten Menschen wird oft emotional mit einem bestimmten Lied verknüpft. Die Angehörigen sehen in einem Song genau die Gefühle ausgedrückt, die in dieser Situation so schwer zu formulieren sind.

12 solcher ...

“In this work I gave everything I had to give. […] What I did here I will never do again”.
Camille Saint-Saëns was justifiably proud of his Symphony No. 3 in C minor op. 78, dedicated to the memory of Franz Liszt. Like Beethoven’s Ninth, ...

“Triptyk” (“Triptych”) and “Mörkblå tillit” (“Dark Blue Trust”) have been written by hospital chaplain/author Kerstin Dillmar.

In her work she often meets people who walk in the shadow of death and her dealings and thoughts about this ...

The three popular sonatas op. 10 were written between the end of 1795 and the beginning of 1798, only shortly after Beethoven had completed his first fully-fledged sonatas op. 2. In the press they were announced as „3 very nice piano sonatas“ ...

One must look long and hard to find a piano pupil who hasn’t studied Beethoven’s two “sonate facile” op. 49.
They are not only relatively easy to play but highly lyrical and effective, ideally combining joy in music-making with a mastery ...

Thrilling virtuosity

The young violin virtuoso Roman Kim arranges and composes violin music with high musical challenges and technical aplomb.

Following his inimitable and unsurpassable arrangement of Bach’s “Air” for violin solo, ...

This new scholarly-critical edition of String Quartet op. 127, the first of Beethoven’s late quartets, follows upon Urtext publications of opp. 18, 59, 74 and 95.

Once more the editor is the renowned Beethoven authority Jonathan Del ...

This piece is a transcription of a composition originally conceived for choir and large orchestra commissioned by the “Knabenkantorei Basel”.

The text which stem from the liturgical chants “Cantionale” by Thomas Kress, Basel’s last Carthusian ...

“The Mozart of the 19th century”
Robert Schumann

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s works for violoncello and piano occupy a special place within the repertoire of cellists and chamber musicians. The lyrical “Song without Words” (“Romance ...

“The Mozart of the 19th century”
Robert Schumann

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s works for violoncello and piano occupy a special place within the repertoire of cellists and chamber musicians. The lyrical “Song without Words” (“Romance ...

“The Mozart of the 19th century”
Robert Schumann

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s works for violoncello and piano occupy a special place within the repertoire of cellists and chamber musicians. The lyrical “Song without Words” (“Romance ...

The ORGAN PLUS ONE series is conceived primarily for semi-professional church musicians and instrumentalists. It takes its bearings on the music of the liturgical year and can easily be performed in church services, evening recitals or small ...

Die mit dem vorliegenden Auswahlband abgeschlossene Reihe folgt der Nummerierung des Evangelischen Gesangbuches und richtet sich nach der Abfolge des Kirchenjahres.

Die Bände enthalten technisch leichte, originelle kleine Choralvorspiele ...

Published in 1784, Mozart’s Sonata in A major “for clavier solo”, with the famous Rondo “Alla Turca” finale, is one of the most popular works in the entire piano literature.
Now a newly resurfaced section of the autograph has prompted Bärenreiter ...

Klezmer music is highly popular with clarinettists and audiences alike.
This volume gathers together eleven Yiddish melodies with the typical, slightly melancholy klezmer touch.

The impact is all the greater when they are played by ...

In 1891 Dvorák arranged the final eighth dance of his popular first set of the “Slavonic Dances” op. 46 for violoncello and piano. The Czech composer Jirí Gemrot, born in 1957, has followed his example and has arranged the remaining dances ...

This new scholarly-critical edition of String Quartet op. 127, the first of Beethoven’s late quartets, follows upon Urtext publications of opp. 18, 59, 74 and 95.

Once more the editor is the renowned Beethoven authority Jonathan Del ...

In the style of commedia dell'arte

In 1918 Gabriel Fauré, then 73 years old, received a commission from Prince Albert I of Monaco to write stage music invoking the atmosphere of the “commedia dell’arte”.
The four-movement orchestral ...

Incidental music with the famous "Sicilienne"

Fauré wrote “Pelléas et Mélisande” in 1898 originally as incidental music to Maurice Maeterlinck’s like-named play. After the premiere and subsequent performances, he set about reworking ...

An appetiser for our high-quality Urtext opera vocal scores – give it a try and enjoy!

This collection of opera arias for soprano (or mezzo-soprano) and piano offers a cross-section of Bärenreiter’s extensive catalogue of stage works. ...

Mozart’s final work, the Requiem K. 626, was left incomplete.
The completion of the fragmentary score by his assistant Franz Xaver Süssmayr, who helped him with The Magic Flute, has the character of a historical source with utmost closeness ...

Walther Dürr presents Volume 8 of the new Urtext edition of Schubert’s lieder in separate editions for high, medium and low voice.

This volume contains lieder originating during the latter half of 1815, between August and November. Three ...

This volume contains the first half of the great monologues, arias and ariettas for lyrical soprano from the following operas by Rameau:

Acanthe et Céphise (Céphise)
Anacréon (Chloé)
Castor et Pollux (Télaïre)
Dardanus (Iphise, ...

Louis Vierne (1870–1937) brought symphonic French organ music to its stylistic climax.

Besides being a productive composer, he also gained a reputation as a brilliant improviser at his place of employment, the Notre Dame Cathedral in ...

This edition clarifies a performance aspect of Haydn’s Symphony in G major that has long been misunderstood: in m. 1 of the second movement (Largo) the viola, violoncello and several wind instrument parts are marked “solo”, indicating that ...

Walther Dürr presents Volume 8 of the new Urtext edition of Schubert’s lieder in separate editions for high, medium and low voice.

This volume contains lieder originating during the latter half of 1815, between August and November. Three ...

Beethoven struggled with the “Missa solemnis” for years, searching for a highly personal way to deal with the words and musical traditions of the Mass Ordinary. In the end he produced a work that leaves no listeners cold - some are puzzled ...

The Czech composer František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799) was one of the leading figures in the musical life of late 18th-century Prague. He was an outstanding pianist, composer and teacher whose pupils included Leopold Koželuch.

This edition ...

Beethoven’s Grande Sonate in C major op. 53 (1803-04) marks his turn towards large-scale symphonic influenced piano works. Since its first publication this highly virtuosic piece, dedicated to Beethoven’s friend and patron Ferdinand, Count ...

Our two-volume edition is the first to offer a reference work on organ technique systematically subdivided into 60 exercise units. It provides an overview of all relevant topics on manual and pedal playing based on the tutors by Marcel Dupré, ...

Walther Dürr presents Volume 8 of the new Urtext edition of Schubert’s lieder in separate editions for high, medium and low voice.

This volume contains lieder originating during the latter half of 1815, between August and November. Three ...

Janácek’s intimate chamber-music drama about the passionate love of a simple farm boy for a beautiful gypsy girl is one of his great vocal masterpieces.

This cycle of 22 songs for tenor (an alto and three female voices are added in three ...

Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Organ Works in revised editions

Any complete scholarly critical edition of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach must incorporate new research findings in the interest of scholars and performers alike. Now ...

A festive piece for church and concert hall

Composed around 1760, “Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu” is one of Telemann’s last large-scale vocal works. The libretto, by Karl Wilhelm Ramler, recounts the Biblical events from the ...

A festive piece for church and concert hall

Composed around 1760, “Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu” is one of Telemann’s last large-scale vocal works. The libretto, by Karl Wilhelm Ramler, recounts the Biblical events from the ...

This little notebook is handsome as well as practical. The cover is in Bärenreiter‘s attractive Dvorák-colour and has the same layout as our Urtext editions.
The pages alternate with musical staves on the left and writing lines on the right. ...

In 1929 Paul Wittgenstein, a pianist and war veteran who lost his right arm in the Great War, commissioned Maurice Ravel to write a concerto for him to perform. The result was one of Ravel’s most thrilling compositions and, for Wittgenstein, ...

In 1929 Paul Wittgenstein, a pianist and war veteran who lost his right arm in the Great War, commissioned Maurice Ravel to write a concerto for him to perform. The result was one of Ravel’s most thrilling compositions and, for Wittgenstein, ...

Volume VI presents 42 easy to moderately difficult pieces without pedal for organ in every key, and brings the complete edition of Théodore Dubois’ organ works to a close. With their contrasting length and character, the pieces offer a wide ...

Though Bohuslav Martinu produced a lot of didactic material for the piano, not all of it has been published and many delightful works have remained unknown.

In this “Easy Piano Pieces and Dances” album, Martinu’s four-part piano cycle ...

Composed at about the same time as the “Grande Sonate pathétique” op. 13 (BA 10851), the two op. 14 sonatas are among the easiest Beethoven ever wrote and an indispensable part of piano lessons. Their lyrical, almost chamber-like textures and ...