Contains 15 of Schubert's best-loved, most popular four-hand compositions, including Three Military Marches, Sonata in C Major, Variations in A-flat Major on an Original Theme, Andantino Varie in B Minor on French Motifs, more. Contenu : Three Military Marches, Op. 51, D.733 1. D Major 2. G Major 3. E-flat Major Two Characteristic Marches, Op. 121, D.886 1. C Major 2. C Major Children's March in G Major, D.928 Overture (Ouverture) in F Major, Op. 34, D.675 Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 30, D.617 (dedicated to Count Ferdinand Palffy d'Erdöd) 1. Allegro moderato 2. Andante con moto 3. Allegretto Sonata in C Major, Op. 140 (Grand Duo), D.812 1. Allegro moderato 2. Andante 3. Scherzo. Allegro vivace 4. Allegro vivace Rhondo in A Major, Op. 107, D.951 Variations in A-flat Major on an Original Theme, Op. 35, D.813 (dedicated to Count Anton Berchtold) Variations C Major on a Theme (Was einst vor Jahren) from Hérold's opera Marie, Op. 82, No.1, D.908 (dedicated to Cajetan Neuhaus, Professor of Philosophy in Linz) Andantino Varié in B Minor on French Motifs, Op. 84, No. 1, D.823 Lebensstürme (Storms of Life), Characteristic Allegro in A Minor, Op. 144, D.947 Fantasia in F Minor, Op. 103, D.940 Four Polonaises, Op. 75, D.599 1. D Minor 2. B-flat Major 3. E Major 4. F Major Four Ländler, D.814 1. E-flat Major 2. A-flat Major 3. C Minor 4. C Major Fugue in E Minor, Op. 152, D.952

Aucun autre grand compositeur n?a ?crit autant d??uvres pour piano ? quatre mains que Franz Schubert ? 54 en tout (dont 32 avec num?ro d?opus): des fantaisies des danses des marches des variations rondos sonates etc. Jouer de la musique ensemble souvent dans un cadre con-vivial faisait partie int?grante de la vie au sein du cercle d?amis de Schubert. Quel plaisir de travailler ces morceaux! Dans les trois volumes de l??dition Henle-Urtext comportant la mu-sique pour piano ? quatre mains de Schubert les morceaux sont class?s par ordre chronolo-gique. Le volume I contient trois pi?ces tr?s pr?coces des ann?es 1810 ? 1813 tandis que les autres datent majoritairementde l?ann?e 1818. Parmi ces derni?res figure la magistrale Grande So-nate en Si b?mol majeur D 617. ? la fin figurent deux ?uvres difficiles ? classer v?ritablement chronologiquement dont l?une Allegro Moderato et Andante D 968 parfois aussi appel?e ?Sonatine? fut tr?s vraisemblablement ?crite ? des fins p?dagogiques.

Instrumentation : Piano 4 mains / Présentation des pièces et suggestions d'interprétation / Text booklet describes the pieces and offers performance suggestions / Beiheft mit Erläuterungen und Spielanregungen

It was the ?Slavonic Dances for Piano Duet? op. 46 which brought Antonín Dvorák unexpected international fame. An unerring business instinct led Fritz Simrock, at the beginning of 1878, to ask the Czech composer for some works for piano duet into which Dvorák incorporated musical themes from where he grew up. Following in the footsteps of Brahms?s ?Hungarian Dances?, Dvorák refrained from a literal portrayal of individual kinds of dance. As a result, he created unique masterpieces of European music for domestic use and concert performance.'
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This edition of both series of the ?Slavonic Dances? is based on the ?Complete Edition of the Works of Antonín Dvorák?. The main sources are the first editions published by Simrock.'
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- Separate editions of these works based on the ?Complete Edition of Antonín Dvorák's Works?, vol. V/5'
- New forewords (Cz/Eng/Ger) by Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen and Ivana Rentsch'
- Newly engraved in score format / [Danses Slaves pour Piano 4 Mains Opus 72] / Classique / Partition /