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30/09/2025

29/09/2025

From the first glance at the score to delving into the finer points of articulation: conductor and clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer explains why it is so important for every musician to use trustworthy sheet music and why he has come to particularly appreciate his partnership with G. Henle Publishers in our reel.
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"And I can only encourage all of you to have a look at their great repertoire." Thank you very much, dear Andreas Ottensamer – and we are happy to echo your sentiments: browse through our extensive clarinet repertoire at https://www.henle.de/en/clarinet-2025
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24/09/2025

Get ready to pack your suitcases! Maurice Ravel's captivating four-movement Piano Trio, composed in 1914, invites us on a trip to diverse places and eras. The journey takes us from the rhythmic echoes of the Basque dance “Zortzico” in the first movement, to the interweaving of themes inspired by the Malayan poetic form of the “Pantoum” in the second, and to the Baroque “Passacaglia” form in the third movement.
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As with all of his mature chamber music works, Ravel also emerges as an innovator of traditional forms and techniques in his piano trio, using them merely as a framework for experiments with musical idiom, from a constant oscillation between major and minor to combinations and overlaying of the most diverse meters.
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As a helpful travel guide through this technically demanding work, our Urtext edition offers an analysis of the piece by Ravel himself, as well as fi*****ngs for the piano part by the renowned French pianist Pascal Rogé. Bon voyage: https://www.henle.de/en/Piano-Trio/HN-972
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22/09/2025

A glamourous evening marked the conclusion of the 74th Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD – as always, a high-calibre and fascinating competition featuring promising young artists! On this occasion, we were delighted to present this year's finalists in the clarinet and piano categories with the Henle Urtext Prize.
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We warmly congratulate the three prize winners in the clarinet category:
Elad Navon (1st Prize, Audience Prize, and Special Prize, Interpretation of the Commissioned Composition),
Hongyi Jiang (2nd Prize), and
Lev Zhuravskii (3rd Prize)!
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Equally heartfelt congratulations go to the three prize winners in the piano category:
Liya Cecilia Wang (1st Prize and Audience Prize),
Elias Ackerley (2nd Prize and Special Prize, Interpretation of the Commissioned Composition), and
Jiwon Yang (3rd Prize)!
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The prize money and vouchers for our Henle Library app were presented by Henle’s Head of Publishing Dr Norbert Müllemann. Bravo to all the prize winners and participants in the competition – we are already looking forward to the next one!
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📸 Daniel Delang
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19/09/2025

“... surely one of the loveliest pieces I've ever composed”! – Debussy's highly impressionistic work “Première Rhapsodie” for clarinet and piano, which plays marvellously with the timbral possibilities of the clarinet, was originally written for the clarinet final examination at the Paris Conservatoire.
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During the examination in July 1910 Debussy was forced to hear his piece played eleven times in a row, as he wrote to his publisher Jacques Durand: “Suffer with me, on Sunday I'll have to hear my B-flat Clarinet Rhapsody eleven times. I'll send a report if I manage to survive.” – However, he later added: “The clarinet examination was outstanding, and, to judge from the response of my colleagues, the Rhapsody came off well.” Its success was so pervasive that Debussy later arranged the piano accompaniment for orchestra.
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In addition to this bestseller of the clarinet repertoire, we have included the popular “Petite Pièce” in our edition – an original work of under forty bars that was in fact devised as a sight-reading test. https://www.henle.de/en/Premiere-Rhapsodie-and-Petite-Piece-for-Clarinet-and-Piano/HN-789
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17/09/2025

New term, new Henle Notes! This little treat will help you ease back into your daily routine: we have expanded our range of elegant music notebooks with a new landscape-format one! The Music notebook M (medium) (*) contains 32 pages with 6 staves each. Practical and classy at the same time: bound in the original blue Henle cover with saddle stitching and consisting of Henle music paper, the book offers overviews of musical basics on the inside cover: intervals, note names, note values and rests, as well as the circle of fifths, in both English and German. Particularly suitable for beginners, schools and lessons! Get yours and have fun practising! https://www.henle.de/en/Notes-Musicbook-M-landscape-format/HN-8054
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(*) Format: A5, landscape (21.0 x 14.8 cm).
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16/09/2025

A piece like an eternal summer full of experiences: Beethoven's Sonatina in G major no. 25, op. 79. The “Presto alla tedesca” became famous because the motif of a third, like the call of a cuckoo, is taken through all the keys. The middle movement, of a naive beauty, makes use of a Russian melody that is full of melancholy, while the finale delights by its humorous features! This Sonatina has a lot to offer in a small space, even though Beethoven had written to his publisher in 1809, prior to composing this and other sonatas: “I do not really like working on piano solo sonatas”!
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This Urtext edition also stems from the successful editorial team of Norbert Gertsch and the great pianist Murray Perahia who himself provides the fi*****ng. So go ahead, enjoy the last days of summer with this music! https://www.henle.de/en/Piano-Sonata-no.-25-Sonatina-G-major-op.-79/HN-1313
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10/09/2025

What would you take to a desert island assuming there were enough coconuts, a hammock and, of course, a piano? Our new clothbound volume of Liszt’s “Transcendental Studies”, without doubt among the triumphs of virtuoso piano music, would certainly be on the list, don’t you think?
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This set of twelve études represents the results of the composer’s own revision of a collection already published in 1827 and 1839. Their visionary language and poetic expression make them a milestone of the romantic age. Each of these pieces, including the famous “Harmonies du soir” and “Mazeppa”, bears its own title and has entered the concert repertoire less as an étude than as a tone-poem with its own distinctive flavour.
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Pack the new clothbound edition in your suitcase now – or perhaps you'd rather put it on your shelf at home: https://www.henle.de/en/Transcendental-Studies/HN-1717
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08/09/2025

Creativity and untamed natural forces are sometimes very closely related. This applies to the element of water, whose primal forces are allegorically represented in the Wittelsbach Fountain on Munich's Lenbachplatz – for example, by a young man on a fish-tailed water horse preparing to throw a boulder. Like a raging, wild mountain stream carrying debris with it.
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Creativity and untamed power – doesn't that also remind us of youth to whom Robert Schumann dedicated his famous piano cycle? Originally intended only as a birthday album for his daughter Marie, Schumann’s “Album for the Young” op. 68 received tremendous acclaim throughout the world. In “Der Wilde Reiter” we find the young man on the (water) horse again, but perhaps less destructive and more cheerful. What do we learn from this? Exactly, music channels our energies and makes us happy! https://www.henle.de/en/Album-for-the-Young-op.-68/HN-45
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“Wittelsbacherbrunnen”, by Adolf von Hildebrand, 1895
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05/09/2025

Powder your wigs and get ready to perform an almost authentic interpretation of Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in A major No. 4!
Irresistible music with a solo part for the harpsichord that seems tailor-made for it – although it is not known whether this concerto, like other harpsichord concertos, was originally written for another instrument. In the original parts, the concerto displays a distinctive feature: one can discern that Bach added a part for violone (a bowed bass instrument) in the tutti sections for later performances and provided the continuo part with thorough-bass figuring. The Henle Urtext edition offers both performance options, with the two addenda in the conducting score and the individual parts.
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For this popular harpsichord concerto, Henle also supplies performance material for chamber orchestra in addition to the long-established study editions: a piano reduction as harpsichord part, a clearly laid out conducting score in larger format, performance-ready parts, available individually or as a set, and an additional figured bass part. The parts all have a hard cover, an enlarged type area and enlarged engraving with excellent page turns! Explore our new series, works for chamber orchestra, which we are now gradually building up!
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See all available editions of Bach’s A major Concerto BWV 1055 at G. Henle Publishers: https://www.henle.de/en/Harpsichord-Concerto-no.-2-E-major-BWV-1053/HN-1381
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