Pianophilia

As promised, here's the easiest of Dunhill's 5 Wheels.

Timtin wrote:As promised, here's the easiest of Dunhill's 5 Wheels.

Dunhill Wheel of Progress Op74 Bk1.pdf

Timtin: Muchas gracias!

Let's remember our childhood !

Eric Coates's Springtime Suite, complete.

Thank you very much for the Coates, Timtin.

Two works by Ernest Donajowski (1845-1922)
- La fleur du printemps Mazurka
- Rustic beauty Polka
Both published by Howard, London, nd [~1870].
Donajowski, born in Calais, became a naturalised British citizen in 1874 and founded his own edition in London.
The main part of his business (Donajowski's Miniature Scores) was sold to Eulenburg in 1894.

Some while ago, I bought in a library sale W.H. Kirby's two books of Italian Sketches from 1921. I would put them on IMSLP, but as I can find no biographical information on the composer (except that he seems to have been involved in putting on productions of light comic operas c. 1898), I can't do that for copyright reasons. Nevertheless someone requested one of the pieces from me, so I have scanned them and am happy to share them here. They are worth a look, and the last pieces of each set would make good concert pieces.

W.H Kirby - Italian Sketches, Book I - https://eu.storagemadeeasy.com/files/74 ... cbcd1c.pdf
W.H Kirby - Italian Sketches, Book 2 - https://eu.storagemadeeasy.com/files/88 ... ca2e6d.pdf

Thank you very much for this unusual stuff.

The only references I can find to W.H.Kirby are in The Musical Times (Sept.1st, 1901)
and in a hymnal. Both of these references relate to him/her as a wordsmith rather than
as a tunesmith.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3366037?se ... b_contents

Likely William Henry, born 1892. A bio is avaiable for purcha$e here:

https://www.organ-biography.info/index. ... Henry_1892

Thank you Jim. If you're right, the producer of light operas (as suggested by Phillip)
and the reviewer in The Musical Times must have been either a different person or
a very precocious child!