This volume gathers together, in chronological order, a selection of solo piano pieces that Schubert, to be sure, created as shorter occasional works but which form an important part of his complete oeuvre and often dazzle with their bold harmonies. Our Urtext volume includes compositions from his youth up to shortly before his death. The selected pieces are of a wide spectrum of difficulty (from level 3 to level 7). They offer the more advanced pupil many options by which to approach Schuberts piano works, and the less advanced pupil a good introduction and some worthwhile challenges.

G. Henle Publishers stands for Urtext sheet music of the highest quality. The Urtext editions not only provide the undistorted and authoritative musical text but are also aesthetically pleasing, optimised for practical use and extremely durable. And then there is the strong, distinctive blue profile: (almost) all of the Urtext editions are bound in the characteristic blue cardboard.

Musicians trust Henle’s blue Urtext editions because they:

• provide an undistorted, reliable and authoritative musical text
• offer superb, aesthetically appealing music engraving
• are optimised for practical use (page turns, fingerings)
• are of high quality and durable (cover, paper, binding)
• contain a short preface that introduces the work (particularly useful for AMEB exams) in German, English and French, as well as explanatory footnotes for particularly interesting passages in the score
• contain a description of the sources, an evaluation of the sources, readings and a documentation of the corrections made (= “Critical Report”) in German and English, and often also in French