For decades, the two-volume Henle Urtext edition of Beethovens piano sonatas has maintained its status across the globe as the standard edition of reference among pianists.
After its publication at the beginning of the s, edited by the Munich musicologist Bertha Antonia Wallner โ with the support of the Beethoven Archive in Bonn โ this outstanding editorial achievement was quickly recognised by the world of pianists as a new benchmark.
Its decades-long, rigorous field testing led to improvements and refinements such that this Henle Urtext edition of Beethoven's piano sonatas is universally regarded today as the reference source. Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas unfurl before us a virtually inexhaustible wealth of pianistic and musical flights of fancy, predominantly works of the greatest familiarity in piano lessons, concert halls, and recordings. Henle Publishers also offers every Beethoven sonata as a standalone Urtext edition in print or in the app.
The features of the Beethoven piano sonatas in Henle Urtext editions at a glance: - a scholarly, critical Urtext edition on the basis of all available sources, always kept up-to-date - optimisations of the musical score as a result of continuous usage in musical practice - all important information about musical passages included in footnotes on the same page - notational settings of unmatched beauty and accuracy thanks to traditional musical hand-engraving - fingering suggestions by Conrad Hansen alternatives in the app - available in two collected volumes with fingerings, paperbound or clothbound - available without fingerings, paperbound - each sonata also available separately in print and in the app In order to satisfy the increasing need for more heavily annotated Urtext editions, but also in order to document the eminent Beethoven knowledge of one of the greatest living pianists of our age, Murray Perahia, G.
Henle Publishers has for some time now been gradually publishing the complete Beethoven sonatas in a parallel Urtext edition, the Perahia Edition. Our staff focus on helping customers to buy the right instrument at the right price.
