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Dear musicians
Although we were not able to celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th Anniversary in the style we would have liked last year, we are proud of the many fine Urtext editions we have produced of Beethoven’s works.
In this newsletter we would like to present some of our Beethoven highlights.
Please note that the special introductory price for the Complete Piano Sonatas in 3 volumes expires on 4 October. Order now to take advantage of the price saving.
Further information on these editions and music samples can be found on our website. All editions can be ordered directly from our webstore.
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 | A definitive critical performing edition at the cutting edge of Beethoven scholarship
Elegant, reader-friendly layout with practical page turns
Table of contents with incipits as well as running titles enable easy location of works |
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| Beethoven, Ludwig van | | Complete Sonatas for Pianoforte I-III | BARENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Del Mar, Jonathan | | BA 11840 | EUR 75.00 | 9790006567362 | Introductory price valid until 4 October 2021.
Price valid from 5 October 2021 is EUR 94.00 | Barenreiter's edition of Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas, edited by world-renowned Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar, guarantees a musical text at the forefront of musicological scholarship. Each volume is equipped with a table of contents including incipits of each sonata. Running titles with opus and movement numbers enable a quick identification of individual works and movements. Volume I includes a Foreword (Eng/Ger) which covers all salient editorial issues with regard to Beethoven's notation and performance practice issues, supplemented by facsimile pages.
Also available is a complete Critical Commentary to all of the piano sonatas (BA 11840-40). | | |
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 | Urtext edition of Beethoven's best-known piano piece with new scholarly discoveries
Transcription of Beethoven's draft of version 1 and revision for version 2
Performable completion of the autograph draft for version 2 and historically informed fingering |
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| Beethoven, Ludwig van | | Bagatelle for Piano in A minor WoO 59 "Fur Elise" | BARENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Aschauer, Mario | | BA 11839 | EUR 4.50 | 9790006568673 | The critical edition by renowned Beethoven scholar Mario Aschauer comes to new conclusions. It offers, in addition to the version of the first printing from 1867, a transcription of Beethoven's draft that makes the changes to the 2nd version visible in grey print as well as a performable completion by the editor of that 2nd version. This definitive edition invites you on an exciting voyage to rediscover this popular piece.
On YouTube you can enjoy the editor’s recording of “Fur Elise” on a wonderful fortepiano by Michael Rosenberger (Vienna, 1810). In the commentary Mario Aschauer sheds light on this famous bagatelle.
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 | Urtext edition based on a re-evaluation of the sources
Includes notes on performance practice of Viennese piano music during Beethoven's day (Ger/Eng)
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| Beethoven, Ludwig van | | 33 Variations on a Waltz for Piano op. 120 "Diabelli Variations" | BARENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Aschauer, Mario | | BA 9657 | EUR 11.95 | 9790006528158 | | In 1818/1819 Anton Diabelli sent a 32-measure waltz which he had written himself to the most reputable composers of the Austrian Empire with the invitation to submit a set of variations which were to be published in a collaborative collection. We only know for sure of one composer who explicitly declined to collaborate: Beethoven. It remains unclear why he did not want to participate in the contest. He nevertheless composed 33 variations, not directly for Diabelli, rather considering alternative avenues of publication. His "Diabelli Variations" mark the pinnacle of his oeuvre for variations and form one of the most important contributions to this genre. |
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 | One-of-a-kind Urtext edition of the complete Diabelli Variations
First Urtext edition of the "Fatherlandish Union of Artists" Part II variations
Includes notes on performance practice of Viennese piano music during Beethoven's day (Ger/Eng) |
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| Beethoven, Ludwig van / Czerny, Carl / Liszt, Franz / Moscheles, Ignaz / Schubert, Franz et al. | | Beethoven: 33 Variations on a Waltz op. 120 / 50 Variations on a Waltz composed by Vienna's Most Excellent Composers and Virtuosos for Piano "Diabelli Variations" | BARENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Aschauer, Mario | | BA 9656 | EUR 27.95 | 9790006528141 | In addition to Beethoven's "Diabelli Variations", written between 1819 and 1823, 50 other composers from Austria, mainly Vienna, followed Diabelli's call to create variations for his famous waltz, among them Czerny, Moscheles, Fr. X. Mozart, Schubert, the 11-year-old Liszt and J. N. Hummel.
The variations first printed by Diabelli fictively as "Fatherlandish Union of Artists Part I" (Beethoven's op. 120) and "Part II" (the 50 variations of Vienna's "most excellent composers and virtuosos") are presented here by Mario Aschauer for the first time in one edition. Furthermore the variations of Part II appear in an Urtext edition for the first time.
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| Testimonial for the Barenreiter Urtext edition of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas |
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 | Special set price for Beethoven's Sonatas for Pianoforte and Violin
First edition with a complete Critical Commentary, source description, historical information on Beethoven's notation and metronome markings, and a Performing Practice Commentary (online resource)
Each volume with two solo violin parts (Urtext and historically annotated) |
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| Beethoven, Ludwig van | | Sonatas for Pianoforte and Violin | BARENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Brown, Clive | | BA 9036 | EUR 74.00 | Two scores, four violin parts | 9790006563784 | Clive Brown's ground-breaking new edition of Beethoven's ten sonatas for violin and piano combines a scholarly Urtext approach with the provision of a wealth of information on historical performing practice, all conveniently united in one practical edition. It is the first scholarly-critical edition to include a complete Critical Commentary and a description of all relevant sources.
This edition consists of a score and two individual parts for the violin: an Urtext part based on the scholarly-critical assessment of all sources, and an annotated part with fingering and bowing by Clive Brown based on the thorough study of historical techniques and practices.
The pivotal Performing Practice Commentary by Clive Brown and Neal Peres Da Costa supplements information on performing practice for each sonata and each movement in this volume. It discusses conventions of both violin and piano playing in Beethoven's period, describes historical contexts and advises on phrasing and technique based on the evaluation of historical editions.
This Performing Practice Commentary is available online - please go to the sonatas on our website and click on "Extras".
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 | Score and two solo violin parts (Urtext and historically annotated)
Includes detailed information on the genesis, historical editions, and Beethoven's metronome markings
With a ground-breaking Performing Practice Commentary (online resource), providing historically informed guidance for the performance of this sonata |
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| Beethoven, Ludwig van | | Sonata for Pianoforte and Violin in F major op. 24 "Spring Sonata" | BARENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Brown, Clive | | BA 10937 | EUR 12.50 | Score, two violin parts | 9790006568505 | The time during which Beethoven composed his "Spring Sonata" was marked by a frantic surge of compositional creativity. "I live only in my notes, and with one work barely finished, the other is already started; the way I write now I often find myself working on three, four things at the same time.", he wrote in a letter to Wegeler on 29 June 1801. However during this time, Beethoven also suffered from the rapid deterioration of his hearing, a fact that he was still trying to hide and the enchanting "Spring Sonata" which was to become increasingly popular in the course of the 19th century, certainly does not divulge.
For the Performing Practice Commentary, please go to this sonata on our website and click on "Extras".
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 | Score and two solo violin parts (Urtext and historically annotated)
Includes detailed information on the genesis, historical editions, and Beethoven's metronome markings
With ground-breaking Performing Practice Commentary (online resource), providing historically informed guidance for the performance of this sonata |
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| Beethoven, Ludwig van | | Sonata for Pianoforte and Violin in A major op. 47 "Kreutzer Sonata" | BARENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Brown, Clive | | BA 10938 | EUR 18.95 | Score, two violin parts | 9790006568512 | An autograph fragment of the Violin Sonata op. 47 is titled, in Beethoven's hand, "Sonata mulattica composta per il mulatto Brischdauer, gran pazzo e compositore mulattico" meaning "Mulatto Sonata composed for the mulatto Brischdauer, great madman and mulatto composer". The genesis of the sonata, which was to become famous under the name "Kreutzer Sonata", is closely connected to a visit to Vienna by George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1778-1860), a violinist with an Afro-Caribbean father and a European mother. In the language of that time, his descent made him a mulatto.
Beethoven was apparently deeply impressed by Bridgetower's musicality and virtuosic abilities. However, when the sonata was published in 1805, he dedicated it to Rodolphe Kreutzer under the title "Sonata per il Pianoforte ed uno violino obligato in uno stile molto concertante come d'un concerto". The work "in the style of a concerto" is probably Beethoven's most demanding violin sonata and since the 19th century has formed part of the core repertoire of the great violin virtuosos.
For the Performing Practice Commentary, please go to this sonata on our website and click on "Extras".
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 | Standard chamber music work by Beethoven
Barenreiter Urtext edition edited by Jonathan Del Mar
Demanding horn part with an alternative more manageable version for violoncello |
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| Beethoven, Ludwig van | | Sonata for Pianoforte and Horn or Violoncello in F major op. 17 | BARENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Del Mar, Jonathan | | BA 10939 | EUR 16.95 | Score with two parts | 9790006568918 | Beethoven wrote his Horn Sonata op. 17 for Johann Wenzel, one of the most famous horn players of his day. According to an anecdote from Beethoven's pupil Ferdinand Ries, he only completed it on the day before the premiere. Nevertheless, the piece was a rousing success.
As the horn part demands a masterly technique, the publisher of the first print, Tranquillo Mollo et Comp., issued the piece in 1801 with an alternative part for violoncello. Since the autograph score has not survived, Jonathan Del Mar has based his scholarly-critical edition mainly on this first print.
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| String Quartet / Piano Quartet |
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 | Often considered one of Beethoven's most personal compositions
New scholarly-critical edition by Jonathan Del Mar
Beethoven's pencil markings meticulously evaluated
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| Beethoven, Ludwig van | | String Quartet in C-sharp minor op. 131 | BARENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Del Mar, Jonathan | | BA 9031 | EUR 26.95 | Parts in slipcover | 9790006568536 | Many anecdotes surround String Quartet op. 131: Beethoven is said to have considered it to be his finest quartet and of his late period works, the one dearest to his heart. It is also believed that the composer invested so much of himself in it; his ailing health, the social isolation brought about by his deafness and the suicide attempt of his nephew Karl. In addition it was reported that Franz Schubert asked to hear this piece once more on his deathbed.
Even if these anecdotes are not all true, they reveal what generations of musicians felt they heard in this quartet: Beethoven's most personal musical idiom and a vulnerable message from the final period of his life.
This new edition by Jonathan Del Mar represents a thorough revision of this highly complex work. Meticulously incorporated are Beethoven's pencil markings that were previously almost completely ignored. |
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 | Beethoven's early masterpieces, newly presented and clarified
Illuminating notes on performance practice by Leonardo Miucci in the Foreword (Ger/Eng)
Verification of correct readings in the Critical Commentary (Eng) |
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| Beethoven, Ludwig van | | Three Quartets for Pianoforte, Violin, Viola and Violoncello WoO 36 | BARENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Miucci, Leonardo | | BA 9037 | EUR 48.95 | Score with parts | 9790006567270 | The sole source for the quartets is the autograph score which contains many overwritings that shed light on the work's original conception and possible alternative readings. Although Beethoven never published the pieces in his lifetime and is not known to have performed them, he reused their melodic and thematic material in later compositions.
Barenreiter's scholarly performing edition of the Piano Quartets WoO 36 has been edited by the Italian pianist Leonardo Miucci, a specialist in the performance practice of keyboard music from this period. The edition not only presents the correct readings, it also sheds light on the young Beethoven's expressive notation and provides a plausible explanation for the distinction he made between dots and strokes to indicate staccato. |
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 | Critical performing edition at the forefront of Beethoven scholarship
German lied texts printed separately with an English translation by the editor
Extensive and informative Introduction (Eng/Ger) |
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| Beethoven, Ludwig van | | An die ferne Geliebte for Voice and Piano op. 98 | BARENREITER URTEXT
Editor: Cooper, Barry | | BA 7862 | EUR 11.95 | | 9790006566976 | "My angel, my all, my self". With these words Beethoven, in July 1812, began his passionate love letter to a woman whose identity has eluded discovery to the present day. Was he perhaps addressing the same woman four years later when he composed "An die ferne Geliebte", his song cycle on poems by Alois Jeitteles?
Barry Cooper discusses this and many other questions in the Introduction to his new edition of Beethoven's only song cycle. Not only does he present a meticulously edited musical text, he also delves into questions of performance practice that previous critical editions have overlooked. |
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Beethoven Pencils
SPA 510 | EUR 0.40 (net price) | Minimum order: 10 pencils
Beethoven Mug
SPA 517 | EUR 6.95 | Dealer discount 40% | Height: 10 cm, diameter 8.2 cm, capacity approx. 230 ml, dishwashersafe
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