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The Felix Editions Catalogue Is Returning

Felix Editions is bringing its established catalogue of carefully prepared piano editions together again through a renewed website and ordering arrangement.

The titles currently shown are the first part of a catalogue of around twenty publications. Further existing editions will become available each Friday, with PDF downloads and internationally produced printed copies now offered through a more consistent and accessible route.

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

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

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

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Featured edition

Six views of Fuji

What does Mount Fuji sound like? In this remarkable 1919 piano suite, Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer answers with six concise scenes inspired by Hokusai: dark, windswept, snow-covered, rain-soaked and seen across the sea.

Zes Gezichten op den Fuji is a rare early Dutch response to Japanese art, combining pictorial imagination with a refined and highly individual piano style. This newly engraved edition was prepared by the pianist who gave the work its first modern performances at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw in the 1980s.

20 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

New publications

Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer

Zes Gezichten op de Fuji

Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer’s Zes Gezichten op de Fuji, Op. 9, is a piano cycle shaped by landscape, atmosphere and Eastern inspiration, presented in a newly accessible Felix Editions publication.

Pages: 20

Level of difficulty: 7/10

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Ludwig Schuncke

Grande Sonate

An ambitious early Romantic sonata by Ludwig Schuncke, written before his death at twenty-three. A substantial four-movement work for pianists interested in Schumann’s circle, classical discipline and brilliant pianism.

Pages: 46

Level of difficulty: 9/10

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Carl Loewe

Zigeunersonate

Carl Loewe’s Zigeunersonate, Op. 107b, is a five-movement Romantic piano sonata combining classical form, narrative imagination, vigorous pianistic writing, and a distinctive nineteenth-century programme.

Pages: 60

Level of difficulty: 9/10

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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.

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.

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.

The Schubert of the North

Carl Loewe

In Vienna they called him "the Schubert of the North" — yet where Schubert's piano sonatas became pillars of the repertoire, Loewe's disappeared from it. His reputation rests on over four hundred ballads, dramatic and pianistically daring, admired by Hugo Wolf a generation later. The piano works tell a different story. His Zigeunersonate (1847) channels the nineteenth-century fascination with what was then considered the exotic into five movements of considerable ambition.

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.

Turbocharged Mozart

Joseph Wölfl

Wölfl trained in Mozart's Salzburg under Leopold Mozart and Michael Haydn, and arrived in Vienna with a technique so commanding that in 1799 Beethoven agreed to face him in a public improvisation duel. The Journal de Paris called him one of the most astonishing pianists in Europe. But Wölfl was no Beethoven imitator: his sonatas extend Mozart's language with a brilliance that sounds far more virtuosic than the notes demand. He died in London at thirty-eight. His music survived in libraries, not on music stands. Until now.

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.

Dutch virtuoso

Eduard de Hartog

Born in Amsterdam in 1825, De Hartog spent nearly fifty years in Paris — as conductor of the Cercle Sainte-Cécile, concert pianist, and composer of operas staged at the Théâtre Lyrique. He was decorated by two governments and wrote more than eighty works spanning opera, symphonic poetry, chamber music, and piano. Yet not a single modern performing edition existed until now. His Sonate-Symphonie, Op. 21, is the first to appear.

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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.