Baerenreiter Verlag

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Editor: Jonathan Del Mar
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Piano

• A definitive new critical performing edition at the cutting edge of Beethoven scholarship
• Elegant, ready-friendly layout with practical page turns
• Table of contents with incipits as well as running titles enable easy location of works

Following the critically acclaimed publication of the 35 Piano Sonatas in separate editions, Baerenreiter now presents Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas in three volumes. This edition, which is unparalleled in terms of its philological accuracy, has been edited by world-renowned Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar guaranteeing 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. An indispensable standard work at the cutting edge of Beethoven scholarship!

"There are many editions of Beethoven's Sonatas on the market at present but this particular one stands out as being especially beneficial and useful to all academic musicians as well as pianists. The complete set will prove to be a real treasure trove where no stone has been left unturned in the quest of historic backgrounds of this great music." - Nadia Lasserson, Piano Journal August 2019

Contents:

• Sonata in F major op. 54
• Sonata in F minor op. 57
• Sonata in F-sharp major op. 78
• Sonata in G major op. 79
• Sonata in E-flat major op. 81a "Les Adieux" Lebewohl, Abwesenheit und Wiedersehn
• Sonata in E minor op. 90
• Sonata in A major op. 101
• Grande Sonate in B-flat major op. 106 "Hammerklavier"
• Sonata in E major op. 109
• Sonata in A-flat major op. 110
• Sonata in C minor op. 111