Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Book 1 - Urtext Edition

Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Book 1 - Urtext Version

Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas are often referred to as the 'New Testament of Music' (Hans von Balow), an almost inexhaustible wealth of pianistic musical flights of inspiration and predominantly high profile works. This Henle Edition has been hailed by experts as the most reliable Urtext edition.

Book 1 is an almost inexhaustible wealth of pianistic, musical flights of inspiration, predominantly high profile works – the Sonatas "Pathétique", "Moonlight", "Storm", "Appassionata", "Waldstein", "Hammerklavier".Contains the following pieces: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1 ; Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 2, No. 2 ; Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2, No. 3 ; Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, Op. 7 ; Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1 ; Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 2 ; Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10, No. 3 ; Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor ("Grande Sonata Pathétique"), Op. 13 ; Pian

The printed fingerings provided by the pianist and important musical pedagogue Conrad Hansen are regarded as meaningful suggestions for solving technical and musical problems: “as few fingerings as possible, albeit instructive ones” (Hansen).

The features of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas in Henle Urtext editions at a glance:

• a scholarly, critical Urtext edition on the basis of all available sources, always kept up-to-date
• optimisations of the musical score as a result of continuous usage in musical practice
• all important information about musical passages included in footnotes on the same page
• notational settings of unmatched beauty and accuracy thanks to traditional musical hand-engraving
• fingering suggestions by Conrad Hansen 
• available in two collected volumes with fingerings, paperbound or clothbound
• available without fingerings, paperbound
• each sonata also available separately