The Unknown Composer

[mballan]

Scott-Baker - I suspect this composer is British........but this work is in the style of several well known composers......you could argue this work is multi-national !!!!!!! Pastiche or variations ?

Malcolm & Mr P

Scott-Baker - "The girl I left behind me" a series of piano pieces in the styles of various composers [Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Elgar, Grieg, Wagner, Tchaikovsky & Debussy].

Scott-Baker H - 'The girl I left behind me' Piano Pieces.pdf

[WCosand]

You have been very busy. Thanks for all the new scores!

[Ferruccio]

You have been very busy. Thanks for all the new scores!

Admiringly seconded !! Thank you, Mr. M and Mr. P.

[mballan]

You have been very busy. Thanks for all the new scores!

Thank Mr P.......no rest even on Christmas Day. After his morsel of turkey and with only a small fire in his tower room, I think scanning helps him to keep warm

We thought to end the year on a good note [pun intended] and hopefully a hint of so much more to come in 2011.

Malcolm

[mballan]

Another composer I can seem to find no trace of any biographical information ......Wilhelm Hauck and his substantial set of variations [name crops up in Norway, Sweden and Germany as a starting point]??

W Hauck - Grosse Variationen

Hauck W - Grosse Variationen.pdf

Malcolm & Mr P

[Jean-Séb]

Another composer I can seem to find no trace of any biographical information ......Wilhelm Hauck and his substantial set of variations [name crops up in Norway, Sweden and Germany as a starting point]??

W Hauck - Grosse Variationen

Hauck W - Grosse Variationen.pdf

Malcolm & Mr P

From here:
http://books.google.fr/books?id=QQgVAAA ... &q&f=false
we learn that he was a pupil of Hummel and that he died suddenly from a lung problem in 1834, soon after he had played with Taubert the double piano concerto by Kalkbrenner. He was a good man, a good teacher and a good pianist. R.I.P.
Jean-Séb

[mballan]

Another composer I can seem to find no trace of any biographical information ......Wilhelm Hauck and his substantial set of variations [name crops up in Norway, Sweden and Germany as a starting point]??

W Hauck - Grosse Variationen

Hauck W - Grosse Variationen.pdf

Malcolm & Mr P

From here:
http://books.google.fr/books?id=QQgVAAA ... &q&f=false
we learn that he was a pupil of Hummel and that he died suddenly from a lung problem in 1834, soon after he had played with Taubert the double piano concerto by Kalkbrenner. He was a good man, a good teacher and a good pianist. R.I.P.
Jean-Séb

Jean-Séb

My hat off to you....you are very good in tracking down information on the most obscure of composers. Thank you for the information on Hauck......very much appreciated.

Malcolm

[mballan]

Another composer, I seem to have drawn a blank with - F. Comte D'Alberti. Italian ? Any information from members much welcomed ?

Whatever, his origins....this is a substantial work.....well worth exploring on the fringes of the obscure [thank you Mr P].

Corrado d'Altamura. Reminiscences for piano.

d'Alberti F.C - Corrado d'Altamura [Reminiscences].pdf

[Caprotti]

Obviously I don't think he can be identified with a Francesco d'Alberti, conte di Villanuova, who wrote a dictionary/encyclopaedia in the first decades of XIX century.
No mentions in the italian musical enc.

Some piano compositions are stored at the Conservatorio library in Milan,(no indications about his birth/death dates) :

Scherzo-etude pour piano
Adagio del Rondo finale : Fra poco a me ricovero (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Trois motifs de l'Opera Lucia di Lammermoor : trascrits pour le piano
La Violetta delle Alpi : mazurka ... : per pianoforte
Trois chansons sans paroles : pour piano
TU NE SAURAIS M'OUBLIER
Variations : Pour Piano Forte sur un theme de Mercadante. Composee et dediees a Mad.me Therese Ronzani
Fanciulla amabile, l'ostel m'invita : canzonetta
Galop de bravoure pour piano
Reminiscences des Prisons d'Edimbourg : Opera de M. Frederic Ricci
Reminiscences pour piano de l'opera Corrado d'Altamura (1845 ?)
Clara : ballata ... / D'Alberti Francesco


Some compositions were dedicated to him by Strakosch, Lickl,Honnore and other very minor musicians.
Golinelli dedicated to d'Alberti his "Reminescenze dei Capuleti e Montecchi"

For Ricci's opera see for instance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7FPyYVqU1A

[Jean-Séb]

Another composer, I seem to have drawn a blank with - F. Comte D'Alberti. Italian ? Any information from members much welcomed ?

He is quickly mentioned here:
http://runeberg.org/muslex/0565.html