

Frédéric Chopin
Scherzi
Frédéric Chopin’s 4 Scherzi are high points in the Romantic piano repertoire. Chopin here takes a traditional genre and fills it with radically new content. They are wild, demonic in tone, and there is little about them that is joke-like, despite the original meaning of their title. Referring to the 1st Scherzo, Robert Schumann asked: “how should seriousness be attired, when even a ‘joke’ is veiled in black?”. Now that the Scherzi nos. 1–4 have been published in revised stand-alone editions, G. Henle Publishers is now offering all four in paperback and hardback, in an edition that reflects the current state of Chopin research. Both the footnotes and the extensive Critical Report on the Internet offer detailed information on the familiar topic of “Chopin variants” and on all the textual problems they raise. This is Chopin in top form!
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About the Composer

Frédéric Chopin
Pianist and composer. His work is concentrated around piano music that enjoys extraordinary popularity and has become an integral part of the concert repertoire. His music influenced subsequent generations in France (Franck, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Debussy) as well as Smetana, Dvořák, Balakirev, Grieg, Albéniz.
About the Authors

Norbert Müllemann (Editor)
Dr. Norbert Müllemann, born in 1976 in Cologne, studied musicology, German philology and philosophy at the University of Cologne whilst at the same time studying the piano at the Music Conservatory in Cologne.
In 2004 he began working at G. Henle Publishers as an intern. In 2005 he became a junior editor, whilst at the same time starting his doctorate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He completed it in 2008 with a thesis entitled “Handschriften Frédéric Chopins bis 1830. Studien zur Authentizität, Datierung und Werkgenese”. Since 2008 Müllemann has been an editor at the publishing house, becoming editor-in-chief in 2017 and Head of Publishing in 2024. He has edited numerous Urtext editions for the publisher with a particular focus on the works of Frédéric Chopin.

Hans-Martin Theopold (Fingering)
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In eerdere edities bespraken we al de afzonderlijke edities van de Scherzo’s opus 20 en 31. De uitgaven van de Scherzo’s opus 39 en 54 staan op hetzelfde hoge niveau, qua vormgeving en toelichting.
de nieuwe muze, 2019Da Herausgeber Norbert Müllemann nun wirklich alle brauchbaren Quellen ausgewertet, beschrieben und sein Vorgehen begründet hat, kann man die Werke mithilfe dieser Edition besonders gründlich studieren. ... Durchaus hilfreich sind einerseits die vom Herausgeber angefertigten schematischen Darstellungen zum jeweiligen Verlauf der Drucklegung, andererseits die zahlreichen Notenbeispiele, anhand derer Unterschiede zwischen den verschiedenen Fassungen deutlich gemacht werden. ... Die Druckgrafik ist von jener sinnlichen Prägnanz, die man seit jeher von Henle-Urtext-Editionen kennt und schätzt.
Piano news, 2019Going still further, Müllemann provides detailed footnotes throughout the score itself, too, and these are likely to be for many the first port-of-call when preparing a performance. ... As for the score itself, as one would expect from Henle this is beautifully engraved and presented on quality cream paper, with an enduring stitched binding. It must also be added that the score is also available as a digital download within the Henle Library app. ... Those studying these extraordinary masterpieces will be delighted with Norbert Müllemann’s outstanding new edition for Henle, combining as it does superb scholarship with industry-leading engraving and presentation.
Pianodao, 2019Il punto forte, però, è il ricco apparato critico (tedesco e inglese), con vari alberi genealogici delle fonti e diversi esempi musicali.
Suonare news, 2019The integrity and scholarship of the edition can be taken for granted, though, and Henle’s characteristically professional presentation makes for an attractive package.
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