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What the canon left out

New critical editions of overlooked Romantic piano music

Henselt, Wölfl, Schuncke, Clara Schumann, Loewe, and other overlooked Romantic composers, newly engraved, elegantly printed, and ready for the concert stage.

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Not a scan. Not a reprint.

Every edition is newly engraved from primary sources, with critical commentary and a foreword. Available in print or as a digital download.

Newly engraved

Every note is freshly set from first editions and historical sources — not copied from a nineteenth-century print.

Fully documented

Critical commentary records every editorial decision, so you can see what the sources say and where they differ.

Built for the music stand

Lay-flat wire binding, premium cream paper, and a layout designed for practice and performance.

Featured edition

A Sonata for Robert Schumann

Dedicated to Robert Schumann, Ludwig Schuncke’s Grande Sonate is a large-scale four-movement work from the centre of Schumann’s early Leipzig circle. Schuncke was one of Schumann’s closest friends, helped establish the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, and received the dedication of Schumann’s Toccata Op. 7 in return.

Published in 1834, shortly before Schuncke’s death at twenty-three, the sonata brings together a firm classical design, a dark G minor opening and an unusually personal command of the piano. It is a substantial rediscovery for advanced pianists drawn to the musical world around the young Schumann.

46 pages · Newly engraved · Download or printed edition · Critical commentary and foreword included

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Cover image of the Diabelli Variations by 50 composers, including Czerny, Hummel, Schubert, Liszt and Moscheles

Now available

The first titles from the returning Felix Editions catalogue are now available in print and as PDF downloads. Further established editions will follow each Friday.

Joseph Woelfl

Cover of the Felix Editions volume Zes Gezichten op de Fuji by Sigtenhorst Meyer
Trois Sonates

Three substantial piano sonatas from Joseph Woelfl’s Parisian period, combining Viennese Classical clarity with brilliant, technically engaging keyboard writing.

Pages: 54

Level of difficulty: 7/10

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Clara Schumann

Cover of the Felix Editions volume Zes Gezichten op de Fuji by Sigtenhorst Meyer
4 Pièces Caractéristiques

Four sharply drawn character pieces: Le Sabbat, Romance, Caprice à la Boléro and Hexentanz. A vivid, compact set for pianists looking for theatrical energy, lyrical calm and dark rhythmic drive.

Pages: 30

Level of difficulty: 8/10

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Adolf von Henselt

Cover of the Felix Editions volume Zes Gezichten op de Fuji by Sigtenhorst Meyer
Poème d’Amour

A lyrical but demanding Romantic piano work, close to the concert étude. With two 1838 Schlesinger versions included, this edition gives pianists a rare view of Henselt revising the piece for effect and playability.

Pages: 28

Level of difficulty: 8/10

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The rest of the 19th century

The romantic piano repertoire contains hundreds of works that never entered the standard teaching canon — not because they lack quality, but because the canon was always selective. Composers who were performed, published, and admired in their own time disappeared from concert programmes within a generation. Their music survived in library archives and unreadable nineteenth-century prints. It deserved better.

Felix Editions publishes new critical editions of Adolf von Henselt, Joseph Wölfl, Ludwig Schuncke, Clara Schumann, Eduard de Hartog, Carl Loewe, and Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer. Each volume is newly engraved from primary sources, with a critical commentary and a foreword, printed on premium cream paper with lay-flat wire binding. Browse the catalogue and hear what the canon left behind.

The composers

The current Felix Editions catalogue brings together piano music from very different musical worlds: Clara Schumann’s early Romantic cycle, Sigtenhorst Meyer’s Japanese-inspired piano pieces, and the wider Diabelli variation project in Vienna around 1820. Each Friday, we will expand the catalogue with our previously published titles.

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Portrait of Adolf von Henselt, Romantic pianist-composer and influential figure in the Russian piano school.

The pianist Liszt envied

Adolf von Henselt

Schumann called him 'the Chopin of the North'; Liszt envied his tone. In his own time, Adolf von Henselt was spoken of alongside the greatest pianists of the nineteenth century — not for virtuosity alone, but for the lyrical depth that defines all his work: wide-spanned textures, rich polyphony, and a vocal melodic style that makes the instrument sing. After a brief, celebrated career as a concert pianist, he withdrew to St Petersburg, where he laid the foundations of the Russian piano school as court pianist and pedagogue. His influence reached Rachmaninoff and Scriabin through Rubinstein and Zverev. Yet outside Russia, his music has remained largely overlooked — until now.

Portrait of Clara Schumann, composer and pianist whose early piano works form part of the Romantic repertoire.

Rivalled Liszt and Thalberg at eighteen

Clara Schumann

Chopin personally acquired her 4 Pièces Caractéristiques; Mendelssohn conducted the premiere of her Piano Concerto; Robert Schumann quoted her waltzes in Carnaval and reworked her theme in his own Impromptus, Op. 5. Clara Schumann's early piano works — composed between the ages of twelve and eighteen — are not peripheral to the Romantic repertoire but woven into it. The writing is technically exacting, harmonically inventive, and shaped by a lyrical intelligence that set her apart from the virtuoso display pieces of her contemporaries. These works have been overlooked, not because they lack substance, but because no critical performing edition existed. Now one does.

Portrait of Ludwig Schuncke, Romantic composer and close associate of Robert Schumann.

Dead at twenty-three

Ludwig Schuncke

Schumann counted him among the three people who made up his entire wealth. The two met in Leipzig in 1833, co-founded the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, and exchanged dedications — Schuncke inscribed his Grande Sonate in G minor to Schumann; Schumann gave his Toccata in C major in return. Born into a family of horn players, Schuncke studied piano in Paris with Kalkbrenner and Reicha, and drew a favourable comparison to the young Liszt from Schumann himself. Tuberculosis ended everything two weeks before his twenty-fourth birthday. The Grande Sonate is the work of a composer who had found his voice. There was no time for a second one.

Portrait of Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, Dutch composer of impressionistic piano miniatures.

Dutch impressionist

Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer

His piano miniatures — of flowers, birds, rivers, Hokusai's Mount Fuji — sit somewhere between Debussy and Satie but sound like neither. Sigtenhorst Meyer studied in Amsterdam, Vienna, and Paris, settled in The Hague, and translated landscape and Eastern imagery into music of transparent texture and quiet harmonic invention. He taught Hans Henkemans, wrote three monographs on Sweelinck, and composed the score for the first Dutch sound film. His piano music has been largely overlooked.

About Felix Editions

Felix Editions publishes newly engraved practical editions of neglected and underrepresented piano music, prepared from historical sources and, where appropriate, in collaboration with specialist musicians, researchers and composer foundations. Each edition is made to be both beautiful on the page and practical at the piano.

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