Category Archives: genesis

Rostropovich and Atovmyan – the two midwives of Prokofiev’s Cello Sonata op. 119

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Annette Oppermann

Mstislav Rostropovich is considered one of the greatest cellists of … Continue reading →

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‘Free, but lonely’ – an extraordinary sonata and its new edition

Posted on November 13, 2023 by Dominik Rahmer

Our new Urtext edition HN 1572 introduced in today’s blog … Continue reading →

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Excess and empty space: Text variants in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto op. 104

Posted on October 25, 2021 by Annette Oppermann

Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto op. 104 may be a special … Continue reading →

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Dvořák’s “Gran Partita”? On the presumed model of his Wind Serenade in d minor op. 44

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Dominik Rahmer

In my last blog post I already reported on our … Continue reading →

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Bach’s harpsichord concertos and their autograph

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Norbert Müllemann

If you’re looking for a simple answer to the question … Continue reading →

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Beethoven in the “home office” – Composing in the “truly admirable confusion”

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Dominik Rahmer

Beethoven Year 2020 is coming to an end, and there … Continue reading →

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From sketch to first edition: the (almost) seamless source documentation of Edward Elgar’s violin sonata

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Norbert Müllemann

Many Urtext editions and their sources cross the desk of … Continue reading →

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Tempest – Les Adieux – Hammerklavier. Sense and nonsense regarding the names given to Beethoven’s piano sonatas, Part 2

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Norbert Gertsch

In the first part of my blog on the famous … Continue reading →

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An amusing story and a serious problem – On Mendelssohn’s first concert piece for clarinet, basset horn and piano

Posted on April 13, 2015 by Peter Jost

For composers, commissions or dedications of works could pay off, … Continue reading →

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Without words, but with a foreword – what’s new on Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise”

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Dominik Rahmer

Looking at the topics of the by now more than … Continue reading →

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