Joseph Haydn: Complete Piano Sonatas Volume I cb.: Piano: Instrumental Album

Over 50 internationally celebrated pianists were invited to adopt one Haydn piano sonata each and provide it with their personal fingerings a who s who on the contemporary piano scene. G. Henle Publishers now presents this classic revised and with a new look to all pianists in the certainty that Haydn s sonatas will further cement their place in the world of music. Volume I contains Haydn s early sonatas very much still born of the spirit of the early Classical period: catchy music fun to play often at a moderate level of difficulty without which modern piano instruction would be nearly unthinkable. Time and again the authenticity of individual sonatas from this grouphas been questioned the preface by Armin Raab the Scholarly Director of the Joseph Haydn Institute now provides comprehensive information on new findings regarding this important topic area.