String Solo Works

Max Reger's Three Suites for Solo Viola, Op. 131d were written in the final year of his life immediately after the appearance in print of his six P...

Antonín Dvorák’s chamber music output comprises over forty works. That he became known so quickly beyond the borders of Bohemia was due not least t...

Published in 1820 as his Opus 1, Paganini gave the violin world a timeless masterpiece violin virtuoso can ignore. This Henle edition also includes...

Three violin concertos by Joseph Hadyn survive, of which the ones in C major and A major were written at the court of Prince Esterhazy. The violin ...

An authoritative Urtext edition of Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A major Hob. VIIa:3 by Franz Joseph Haydn, edited by Gunter Thomas and Hein...

The circumstances in which these poetic “Soirée Pieces” (thus their original title) came into being are quite surprising. In 1849 Dresden was seize...

An authoritative Urtext edition with marked and unmarked violin parts ofSchubert's Duos for Piano and Violin. Contains: Fantasy C major op. pos t. ...

Weber composed an incredible array of compositions in his rather short but at the same time tireless life. Many of them have still to be discovered...

The ŒñRomance sans paroles dí©dií©e íæ Mlle. Lise ChristianiŒî Œ_ thus described in the surviving autograph Œ_ was only published as op. 109 from t...

Amongst VieuxtempsŒÍ seven violin concertos, the fifth in a minor is doubtlessly the best known and most popular by far. It was composed in 1860/61...

The first volume of DebussyŒÍs Prí©ludes for piano (HN 383) was published in 1910 and was soon followed by arrangements for various scorings commis...

Glazunov - Elegie Op44 - Viola/Piano Accompaniment Henle HN1241

The peripatetic life and career of the Belgian composer Henry Vieuxtempsanticipated the European concept almost prophetically in the 19th centu ry....

The viola is often not credited with being able to take over a soloisticrole Œ_ but this is completely unjust. In 1738 Johann Philipp Eisel alre ad...

Dragonetti - Famous Solo - Double Bass/Piano Accompaniment Henle HN1198

Edward ElgarŒÍs Salut dŒÍamour is one of those pieces by the British composer that has a particularly haunting melody. The short work also had a sp...

Camille Saint-Saëns composed his two Romances for Horn for two of the most respected French horn players of the time: Opus 67 in E major from 1866 ...

Alongside weighty chamber music works such as piano quartets and violin sonatas, Gabriel Faurí© also wrote several charming miniatures for violinan...

Just as Johannes Brahms had done with his Opus 120, Reger also provided parts for two alternative solo instruments for his Sonata op. 107: "I will ...

Schumann - Sonata #2 Dmin Op121 - Violin/Piano Accompaniment Henle HN1098

When Reger submitted his Clarinet Sonata op. 107 for printing, he remarked: "You immediately notice that the work was originally for clarinet (viol...

In autumn 1765 Mozart’s family was in Holland, not least at the request of Princess Caroline von Nassau-Weilburg. The fame of the prodigy Wolfgang ...

Leopold Mozart was only able to understand his son’s musical genius in terms of it being a God-given wonder: “That my boy […] knows all of this wit...

Editor: Wolf-Dieter SeiffertFingering and bowing for Violin: Benjamin SchmidFingering Piano: Ariane HaeringAt the time, MozartŒÍs genius Œ_ recogni...

Saint-Saens - Cello Sonata #1 in Cmin Op32 - Cello/Piano Accompaniment Henle HN1057

There has been increased general interest in the Bohemian composer Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (c. 1711–1776) over the past few years, especially d...

Mozart - Violin Sonatas Fragments - Violin/Piano Accompaniment Henle HN1039

Saint-Saens - Havanaise Op83 - Violin/Piano Accompaniment Henle HN1037

Fauré's 2nd Violin Sonata was written in 1916 in Evian and Paris, the first in a series of chamber music works. It is thus one of Fauré late works,...

Mendelssohn's viola sonata is an early work which remained unpublished in his lifetime. He was 15 years old when he completed the sonata. This Urte...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) is wrongly remembered, first and foremost, as Mozart’s pupil. In his day he was one of the most respected pianist...

In 1849 Schumann turned to a new genre: works for piano and accompanying instrument. He showered the different wind instruments systematically with...