Eugne Ysae

Norbert Gertsch (Editor)

Eugne Ysae (Fingering and bowing for Violin)

Michel Stockhem (Preface)

First came Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas and partitas, then Nicol Paganini’s caprices. Now, with the op. 27 sonatas of Eugne Ysae, the key works in the repertoire for unaccompanied violin are available in urtext editions from Henle. Ysae peppered these challenging works with extraordinary difficulties, dedicating each of them to a virtuoso violinist of his day and tailoring it to suit his special capabilities. Thanks to newly discovered source material, we are able to present a definitive text that in many respects supersedes the previously available text from the first edition.