Recommended Sheet Music,
Breitkopf & Härtel - Music at Home
During the last year Breitkopf & Härtel has been working hard to meet the growing demand for works in smaller scorings, and to help with this they have created a representative selection of sheet music for their 'Music at Home' range. You can browse some of our favourites from the catalogue below.
Breitkopf & Härtel - Music at Home
Piano & Keyboard
In 1925, Breitkopf & Härtel approached the young pianist Wilhelm Kempff to prepare Clara Schumann’s Instructive Ausgabe of her husband’s works for the new engraving. The complete piano works of Robert Schumann have been split into seven volumes. Volume one contains opp. 1 - 8.
Volumes 1-7 are available here.
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This three-volume edition of Johannes Brahms’s complete piano works reproduces the text of the edition of the complete works from the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. The editor, Eusebius Mandyczewski, was close friends with Brahms from 1897, giving these editions an unobstructed historical view of Brahms’s piano music.
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Renowned harpsichordist and early music expert Glen Wilson went prospecting in the archive of the Singakademie in Berlin and struck solid gold: six out of a total of twenty-six previously unknown manuscript suites by Gottlieb Muffat, published here for the first time.
Another set of suites for harpsichord by Gottlieb Muffat is also available here.
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Twelve etudes by Franz Liszt for piano in ascending difficulty.
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This anthology Jean Sibelius: Piano Pieces, was compiled for the Sibelius Year 2015 (150th birthday). Kari Kilpeläinen and Anna Pulkkis, the editors of the Complete Edition, have selected the most important pieces from all creative periods.
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More and more people are looking for a way to offset the demands of everyday life by making music. Particularly welcome are pieces that often evoke poetic, meditative moods and are good for the soul through their simple harmonies. The majority of the pieces in this book arose from this premise.
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Strings
Sibelius completed his final opus-number compositions, opp. 115 and 116, in 1929. Op. 115 consists of four programmatically titled pieces in which we find not only melodic lines and introverted sounds, but also virtuosic runs as well as lively rhythms, presupposing perfect ensemble playing by pianist and violinist.
Sibelius' Three Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 116 is also available here.
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Urtext with Facsimile edited by Kirsten Beißwenger. Another edition of the cello suites? Yes, since it is more necessary than ever! Particularly in recent years, the lack of an autograph has raised a great deal of questions concerning readings, and led to a considerable amount of confusion among performers.
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Like his famous symphony From the New World, Dvořák's Violin Sonatina was also written in the United States. The themes of the Larghetto so strongly evoke the song melodies of the New World that this movement has been called Indian Canzonetta in certain arrangements.
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In 1876, ten years before the violin sonata by César Franck in the same key, Gabriel Fauré made a major contribution to the new flourishing French chamber music with the Sonata in A Major, op. 13. The sonata soon became popular, and by 1889 Breitkopf & Härtel followed up with an arrangement for cello by Carl Hüllweck.
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Brahms's Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 for cello and piano. Urtext edition based on the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.
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The selection of thirty-six violin duos from Louis Spohr’s famous Violinschule, compiled with commentary by Kolja Lessing, meets two objectives: First of all, it is an extraordinarily delightful, musically-enriched addition to the violin-duo repertoire; secondly, it incorporates the easiest, no less original duos into the lessons for beginners.
Volume 2 is also available here.
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Four sonatas by Antonio Vivaldi for violin and basso continuo "made for Maestro Pisendel" edited by Walter Heinz Bernstein and Hans Grüß.
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Wind
Unfortunately, the original edition of the 12 Fantasias by Georg Philipp Telemann survived only as a copy of poor quality. Therefore, Barthold Kuijken presents a transcription along with a critical appraisal of the musical text. His preface informs about the genesis of the work, discusses the scoring, and comments on stylistic and formal aspects.
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Thirty stylistically varied pieces for learning to play the flute. Includes a colourful selection of pieces ranging from baroque sounds through dance forms like tango and flamenco right up to movie-soundtrack music.
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This volume, which was published to mark the 300th anniversary of the king’s birth, contains the first edition of four sonatas for solo flute and basso continuo composed by Frederick II, known as “the Great” (1712–1786), King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
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Vocal
OperAria is a collection of repertoire anthologies of opera arias according to vocal criteria (range, tessitura, specifics, type of aria) with due regard to practical aspects of musical and theatrical nature (style, era, role type, national provenance).
Browse the entire series here.
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Whoever is familiar with the songs from the Schumann household knows that some of Clara's pieces were published under Robert's name. Until evidence pointing to the contrary was produced, these songs had been regarded as Robert's compositions. Volume one contains opp. 12, 13, & 23.
Volume 2 available is also available here.
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Selected songs by Fanny Hensel. Urtext edition edited by Annette Maurer.
Volume 2 is also available here.
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Steffen Wolf: Paths to Classical Singing (High Voice)
24 Settings of Poems by Heine – A German “Vaccai” Method
Available for high, medium, and low voice. Each volume comprises the lieder with the international phonetic transcription below the music, short pedagogical comments on technical and artistic issues as well as a CD with recordings of the songs and piano playbacks in the respective voice range.
Low and medium voice versions are available here.
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Ellena Taylor - Sheet Music and Books Manager
