For many musicians he is “the Alpha and Omega of all music” (Max Reger). Except for operas, Bach composed masterpieces for every ensemble and genre of his age. His catalogue of works contains almost 1 ...

Having studied musicology and piano, I have been working since 1997 at the G. Henle publishers. My research focus is on Beethoven. In the publishing house I also strongly promote the repertoire for ...

G. Henle Publishers is the first German music publishing house to start a blog written by experts on current and much debated questions concerning classical music scores. F or F#? Forte or Mezzoforte?

He is not only the inaugurator of the art song and its most important composer in the nineteenth century, but he also realized a compositional concept in his instrumental works that opposed Viennese ...

His immense oeuvre documents the profound changes in music history during the second half of the eighteenth century, leading to the emancipation of instrumental music. His most important genres are ...