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When Maria Anna Mozart, known as Nannerl, was to receive piano lessons, her father gave her a music book in which he and others gradually wrote down little recital pieces. Her brother Wolfgang Amadeus soon acquired the book from his older sister. From an early age he displayed a particular talent for composing whereupon his father also wrote down his son’s first works in this music book. The “Nannerl Music Book” thus contains 17 pieces written by Mozart when he was between the ages of five and eight, all of which are easy to play – ideal pieces for beginners. Our edition is taken from the complete volume of Mozart’s Piano Pieces, HN 22, and contains a new preface by the editor Ullrich Scheideler especially written for beginners.

E minor - revised edition - with marked and unmarked string part - cello and piano fingering: Kanngiesser, Claus fingering: Schilde, Klaus editor: Behr, Johannes editor: Voss, Egon

Herausgeber: Ernst-Günter Heinemann, Wolfram Enßlin Fing. Va: Jürgen Weber Fingersatz Gambe: Rainer Zipperling Generalbassaussetzung: Wolfgang Kostujak Wie sein Vater hat auch Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach drei Sonaten für Viola da Gamba komponiert. Sie stammen aus seiner Zeit am Berliner Hof Friedrichs des Großen und gaben dem herausragenden Gambisten der Hofkapelle Gelegenheit, sein virtuoses Können zu zeigen. Während die beiden Sonaten Wq 136 und 137 mit Generalbass komponiert sind, folgt Bach in der Sonate g-moll Wq 88 dem Vorbild des Vaters: Rechte und linke Hand des Cembalos wetteifern in gleichberechtigter Dreistimmigkeit mit dem Soloinstrument. Die Originallage der Gambenstimme erlaubt auch eine Ausführung mit Viola, eine Bearbeitungspraxis, die bereits durch zeitgenössische Quellen belegt ist. Diese Fassung liegt unserer Urtextausgabe als alternative Stimme bei.

Wunderkind-Sonatas Volume II K. 10-15 Editor: Wolf-Dieter Seiffert Fingering: Ariane Haering In 1764 the eight-year-old Mozart wrote the Sonatas K. 10-15 in London. 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 with his 8 years that could be expected of a man of forty years. In short: whoever has not seen or heard it, cannot believe it. According to the title page the six sonatas can either be played as piano trios, violin sonatas or simply piano solo. As we have already published them in the form of piano trios and violin sonatas (HN 1078), we are now presenting them in an Urtext edition for piano solo. Piano Sonata (Wunderkind) B flat major KV 10 Piano Sonata (Wunderkind) G major KV 11 Piano Sonata (Wunderkind) A major KV 12 Piano Sonata (Wunderkind) F major KV 13 Piano Sonata (Wunderkind) C major KV 14 Piano Sonata (Wunderkind) B flat major KV 15

Wunderkind Sonatas Volume III for Piano and Violin K. 26-31 Editor: Wolf-Dieter Seiffert Fingering and bowing for Violin: Benjamin Schmid Fingering Piano: Ariane Haering 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 Amadeus had already reached her so that she had an extraordinary desire to see this child (according to Leopold Mozart). The Sonatas for Piano K. 26-31 that can also have a violin accompaniment were composed in The Hague. They were published in 1766 and were naturally dedicated to the princess. An early copy which has nothing to do with Mozart was consulted by the New Mozart Edition as a primary source alongside the first edition. Our Urtext edition revises the musical text, deleting the misleading additions from this source. Violin Sonata (Wunderkind) E flat major KV 26 Level of difficulty (Violin): medium (Level 4) Violin Sonata (Wunderkind) G major KV 27 Level of difficulty (Violin): easy (Level 3) Violin Sonata (Wunderkind) C major KV 28 Level of difficulty (Violin): easy (Level 3) Violin Sonata (Wunderkind) D major KV 29 Level of difficulty (Violin): easy (Level 3) Violin Sonata (Wunderkind) F major KV 30 Level of difficulty (Violin): easy (Level 3) Violin Sonata (Wunderkind) B flat major KV 31 Level of difficulty (Violin): easy (Level 2)

Piano Sonata D major K. 284 (205b) Editor: Ernst Herttrich Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold The Sonata in D major is the last of the Six Sonatas K. 279-284 that Mozart had in his luggage when he set off for Paris in September 1777. He had already successfully performed this music in Munich, Augsburg and Mannheim, a fact he proudly told his father back at home. He gave the works particularly rich dynamic markings and also found unusual solutions concerning their formal aspect, for instance having a slow Rondeau en Polonaise as the middle movement of the Sonata in D major. The six sonatas, which were previously only published together in the complete volumes (HN 1 and 3), are now all available as single editions with new prefaces. Mozart dedicated this Sonata to a Freiherr Thaddäus von Dürnitz - which is why it has often been called the Dürnitz-Sonata. It is undoubtedly the best, the most brilliant and the most technically demanding of these six early Sonatas. Understandably, Mozart retained a special affection for it and continued to perform it himself. It was this Sonata of which he said that it sounded incomparable on Stein's new fortepianos. FIRST MOVEMENT A first version of the beginning of the first movement, written on one and a half pages, was cancelled by Mozart. On the same page, he started anew to write the final version underneath. The thematic material of this opening movement (and to a lesser degree also that of the following movements) is laid out on a more ample, nearly orchestral scale, a departure from the intimacy of the early sonatas. The tremolo effect in measures 13-16 and the unison announcements of the first subject read very much like a piano reduction of an orchestral tutti. The second subject, a supple melodic line, unaccompanied in its opening bar, incorporates a descending chain of first inversions a favourite harmonic formula of the baroque and classical periods. (There are analogous passages in the subsidiary themes in Gluck's overture Iphigénie en Tauride and the first movements of J. S. Bach's Italian Concert). This functions as a solo passage in contrast to the ensuing tutti entries in m.30. The development moves through a circle of minor keys before the recapitulation begins in measure 72. SECOND MOVEMENT Mozart called the second movement a Rondeau en Polonaise, so it is a dance. The opening four measures from a kind of dialogue (like the theme of the first movement of the preceding G major Sonata), and Mozart subjects them to felicitous counter-statement is heightened by Mozart's meticulous dynamic markings. THIRD MOVEMENT The last movement of the Sonata is a pianistically rewarding, cheerful set of variations, which, up to the adagio variation, has the character of a gavotte. It shows Mozart's special gift for writing variations at its most brilliant. The superficial impression of a diffuse form does not stand up to a closer inspection: it would not be at all easy to omit one of the twelve variations, or to add an extra one. The adagio variation is on special interest to Mozart scholars, for it gives us some insights into his concept of impromptu ornamentation. The autograph is only modestly ornamented, and Mozart presumably embellished it in performance as his fancy dictated. But a richly ornamented version survived in the first edition, published during Mozart's lifetime, and undoubtedly this embellished version is Mozart's own work. Who else could embellish in such an ingenious way? It illuminates Mozart's ideas on ornamentation in general and in particular. Paul and Eva-Badura-Skoda

Each one of Bach?s Six Partitas features seven great single movements predominantly in the sequence: Präludium Allemande Courante Sarabande [two free dances] Gigue. These partitas canjustifiably be described as Bach?s ?ultimate? cycle of suites. As regards the artistic and manual demands it goes far beyond its ?English? (HN 100) and ?French? (HN 71) siblings that are also frequently played. It is nocoincidence that Bach only had these six partitas printed (1731) and what is more as ?Opus 1?.

Piano Reduction-Composed in 1849 Robert Schumann's Concert Piece For Four Horns And Orchestra Op.86 is still considered a romantic work for Horn par excellence and a benchmark for all soloists.'Something quitecurious I believe' it was thus that Schumann described his Concert Piece For Four Horns And Orchestra in a letter and he did indeed break new ground with this work as far as the scoring and treatmentof the instruments was concerned.At the time in which the work was composed the French horn was still fairly new enabling players to play previously unheard-of runs and free modulations a fact which Schumann madethe most of particularly with his scoring for four Horns.

Complete Piano Sonatas Volume II-Franz Joseph Haydn was a prominent and prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the Piano trio and his contributions to musical form haveearned him the epithets 'Father of the Symphony' and 'Father of the String Quartet'. At the time of his death aged 77 he was one of the most celebrated composers in Europe.Franz Joseph Haydn: Complete PianoSonatas Volume II includes 18 sonatas for solo Piano. This Urtext Edition is an authoritative edition with accurate editorial content and as close to the composer's intentions as possible.

This scholarly volume features a critique editorial commentary and performance advice in a Critical Report for three of Haydn’s Paris Symphonies: Symphonie (Paris Symphonies) Hob. I:87 Symphonie 'La Poule' (Paris Symphonie)Hob. I:83 and Symphonie 'La Reine' (Paris Symphonies) Hob. I:85.

English Suites BWV 806-811-English Suites 1-6 by J.S. Bach with text in German English and French.

for Piano and Orchestra-The seven years that the Spanish composer Falla spent in Paris (from 1907 to 1914) marked a turning point in his compositions. His encounter with contemporary French Impressionist music made a big impact on him. From then on itwas to leave its mark on his oeuvre which was otherwise inspired by Spanish folk music. It was thanks to the advice of the pianist Ricardo Viñes and the composer Isaac Albéniz that Falla decided to expand his ?Nocturnes? for solopiano of 1909 into a three-part symphonic suite for piano and orchestra. He finally completed it in 1915 and named it ?Noches en los jardines de España? (?Nights in the gardens of Spain?). Yuja Wang kindly provided fingerings forthe solo piano part of de Falla?s enchanting musical evocation of his Andalusian homeland.