SKU: PR.UE037981

ISBN 9783702475918. UPC: 680160679270. German, English.

Richard Strauss, an early Modern composer and contemporary of Gustav Mahler, is best known for his operas (Salome, Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, and many more) and was also a prolific composer of lieder. This new edition of his Schlichte Weisen is based on the Richard Strauss Works Critical Edition with English translation by John Bernhoff.

SKU: PR.UE037975

ISBN 9783702475574. UPC: 803452072683. German, English.

A young Strauss, at age 21, composed these songs on poems from Hermann von Gilm's Letzte Blatter. In accompanying his wife, a soprano, Strauss produced the performance markings which are presented in this edition. The cycle contains three of his best-known songs in Zueignung, Nichts, and Die Nacht. This edition is based on the Richard Strauss Works Critical Edition.

SKU: HL.49042868

ISBN 9790002003031. 9.25x12.0x0.075 inches. German - English.

SKU: HL.49042869

ISBN 9790002003048. 9.0x12.0x0.065 inches. German - English.

SKU: HL.51481639

UPC: 196288215851. 8.25x11.75x0.074 inches.

Gounod had no qualms about arranging well-known works by earlier masters after his own fashion. Thus in 1852 he added a melody with its own operatic climax to the famous arpeggios of the C-major Prelude BWV 846 from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. He first published instrumental versions of it under the title “Méditation” , then tried fitting various texts to the melody until in 1859 he arrived at the definitive vocal version using the text of the Ave Maria. Already by the 1890s it was claimed that “[we] have heard this sweet melody innumerable times from the best lady singers”, and its popularity has continued to the present day. Reason enough, then, for Henle Verlag to publish an Urtext edition of this worldwide hit, based on the sources and with appropriate critical commentary. In 1859, at the same time as the original edition for high voice, editions for middle and low voice, presumably commissioned by the publishers, were also issued. Following this model, the Henle Urtext edition of “Ave Maria” is also offered in two transpositions for the lower register.

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