Library Urtext Editions

No singer is able to ignore Beethoven's Adelaide. There are thousands of recordings; many love this lyrical setting of Friedrich von Matthisson's poem. Matthisson himself said of it: "Several

This dramatic masterpiece is a standard selection in the soprano repertoire. The origin of this concert aria, though, is swathed in mystery. We still do not know where Beethoven found the text for the aria.

This urtext edition of Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant Beloved) includes a detailed critical commentary with research questions and performance notes in both English and German,

To whom did Beethoven address this song cycle An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant Beloved), which he completed at the age of 45 in April of 1816? Was it to the same person to whom his passionate

Faust; Wilhelm Meister; Egmont; Erlkonig - Beethoven often chose texts by Goethe for his song compositions. Now, for the first time, all of Beethoven's songs with texts by the great Weimar writer

Dvorak's Gypsy Songs are set to the text of seven poems from Adolf Heyduk's Gypsy Songs from the collection Basne, published in 1859. They appear to have been solicited by Viennese opera

Edited by Walther Dürr, one of the world's most distinguished Schubert scholars, he now continues his new Urtext edition of Schubert's lieder with the second volume for high, medium, and low voice,

Edited by Walther Durr. For high, medium or low voice & piano. Urtext Edition. Preface in Ger. and Eng. Includes the song texts in German and English. This volume contains Lieder originating

Continuing the excellent anthology series of Schubert's lieder, Volume 9 contains songs composed in 1816 and early 1817, including the songs D 342 through D 468. This Urtext edition is available for high,

1840 was Schumann's famous "year of song" that brought forth over 100 lieder. They included Myrthen, Op. 25, which he dedicated "to his dear bride," Clara Schumann. Besides famous songs such as

For baritone & piano. This edition contains the great monologues, arias and ariettas that Rameau wrote for basse-taille (the 18th-century equivalent of today's baritone). The volume, which contains a

Though known primarily as a composer of lieder, Schubert's operas and Singspiele were composed concurrently and express many of the same musical characteristics as his famous art songs. This

The second volume of Dvorak's songs comprises his works in the genre from 1878-1901. It captures the peak of Dvorak's song oeuvre, and includes two little-known songs which are not to be found in the

The vocal works collected in this volume were composed for very different occasions. Several of them were tailor-made for female singers of Beethoven's acquaintance; with others he was trying his hand at