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Category Archives: notation
Elgar’s Serenade for Strings: spring sunshine garbed in Henle Urtext. Interview with Rupert Marshall-Luck
The start of 2024 is a special moment for the … Continue reading
Posted in autograph, Elgar, Edward, first edition, Monday Postings, notation, string orchestra, Urtext, variant reading
Tagged autograph, Elgar, first edion, notation, string orchestra, urtext, variant reading
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An annoying mini-error in Mozart’s Violin Concerto K. 219
Recently, David Perry, a Canadian violinist, criticised what he considered … Continue reading
Posted in autograph, Monday Postings, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, notation, revision, violin + orchestra
Tagged Mozart, revision, Violin Concerto
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A “bad apple” in Camille Saint-Saëns’ 2nd cello sonata?
Saint-Saëns was likely far from the “genius thinking” of romanticism. … Continue reading
What’s new with Liszt’s b-minor sonata
With barely concealed exasperation Clara Schumann writes on 25 … Continue reading
A Bohemian in America: Is Dvořák’s String Quartet in F Major wrongly accented?
Antonín Dvořák, director of the National Conservatory of Music in … Continue reading
Further new findings on the autograph of Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A major K. 331
Regular readers of the Henle blog will recollect: My last … Continue reading
Who does the pedalling? On the use of the pedal in music for piano duets
Nowadays we automatically associate music for piano duet with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dvorak, notation, pedalling, piano for 4 hands
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“Please don’t play it as it’s written in the music!” – Urtext and playability
A music-lesson scene that we all recall most reluctantly: A … Continue reading
Posted in Mahler, Gustav, Monday Postings, notation, Piano quartet (Mahler), Urtext
Tagged Mahler, notation, piano quartet
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About the difficulties of notating ornamentation – The riddle of a neighbouring trill tone in Chopin’s Berceuse
The topic “ornamentation” in music is truly endless. We have … Continue reading
Posted in Bach, Johann Sebastian, Berceuse op. 57 (Chopin), Chopin, Frédéric, General, Monday Postings, notation, ornamentation, piano solo
Tagged Bach, Chopin, Ornamentation, Telemann
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