Musical Editions by Roy Howat
For Roy Howat’s Debussy editions, see the Debussy page.
For his editions of Gabriel Fauré, see the Fauré page.
Other editions
Fryderyk Chopin, 12 Etudes Op. 10, ed. Roy Howat; part of the Peters Edition series The Complete Chopin: A New Critical Edition (Peters Edition, 2023, EP 73227)
In the same series: Trois Nouvelles Études (3 Études pour la Méthode des Méthodes), ed. Roy Howat (Peters Edition, 2021, EP 73229. These three enchanting pieces deserve more attention. Less virtuoso-sounding, they’re rarely used as competition fodder; they’re just gorgeous music, Chopin at his most imaginative, tender and playful.
The Op. 25 set of Etudes is now being proofed for publication in the same series, later in 2025.
Emmanuel Chabrier: Works for [Solo] Piano (20 pieces). Dover Urtext Edition with preface and commentary by Roy Howat.
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‘I have no hesitation in declaring Chabrier’s Pièces Pittoresques to be as important to French music as Debussy’s Preludes’ – Francis Poulenc.
Roy Howat had some input in (and recommends) Roger Nichols’ Peters Edition of Ravel’s piano music.
Facsimile edition (in addition to those listed on the Debussy page):
Domenico Scarlatti, XXX Essercizi. Preface by Roy Howat, Paris, Editions Stil, 1977. (This item is now harder to find.)
Two mid-1970s critical editions by Roy Howat of Handel Solo Sonatas, originally published by OUP (Musica da camera nos. 25 & 26), remain available through Allegro Music:
- Sonata in D minor for violin & continuo (the sonata known as op. 1 no. 1b), first publication in the original key and instrumentation;
- Fantasia [violin & continuo] and Sonata in D minor [violin or recorder & continuo] (the sonata known as op. 1 no. 9): first publication of the Fantasia, first complete publication of the Sonata in its original key