Alfor's Rarities

[parag]

Dear Scriabinoff,

thank you for some interesting "sour" information!

Alternative scan:

W.A. MOZART
Romanze*
(well-edited edition by Clemens Schultze)

Mozart Romanze ed. Schultze.pdf

*Authorship doubtful; nevertheless a favourite piece of Edwin Fischer and some other pianists of renown.

Some lovely posts lately Alfred! Many thanks...

Regards,
Parag

[musiclife217]

Dear Scriabinoff,

thank you for some interesting "sour" information!

Alternative scan:

W.A. MOZART
Romanze*
(well-edited edition by Clemens Schultze)

Mozart Romanze ed. Schultze.pdf

*Authorship doubtful; nevertheless a favourite piece of Edwin Fischer and some other pianists of renown.

Always nice to see a quality edition like this with a good editor at the helm, and a nice break from the various urtexts--not that I've ever seen one of this piece. It does not look or sound too much like Mozart to me, but nonetheless, it is an excellent piece.

Thank you for posting this, Alfred.

This was in my W. S. B. Mathews lesson book - Standard Fifth and Sixth Grade Pieces!

[tobyjj]

Dear Scriabinoff,



Thank you for posting this, Alfred.

This was in my W. S. B. Mathews lesson book - Standard Fifth and Sixth Grade Pieces!

And I doubt that was in the last six months!
by which comment no offence is intended.

regards,
tobyjj

[alfor]

Alternative scan:

Ferruccio BUSONI
Sonatina

Busoni Sonatina.pdf

[fleubis]

Alternative scan:

Ferruccio BUSONI
Sonatina

Busoni Sonatina.pdf

Thanks you, Alfred, for this nice hires pristine copy. I'll be dusting this off again next year when I try Busoni originals again, but it was interesting to wade through it today after a long absence. Meanwhile, I'll enjoy his Bach transcriptions.

[musiclife217]

Dear Scriabinoff,



Thank you for posting this, Alfred.

This was in my W. S. B. Mathews lesson book - Standard Fifth and Sixth Grade Pieces!

And I doubt that was in the last six months!
by which comment no offence is intended.

regards,
tobyjj

Indeed, it is hard to imagine the time back when these pieces were included in standard repertoire books for students!

[Ferruccio]

Alternative scan:

Ferruccio BUSONI
Sonatina

Busoni Sonatina.pdf

Dear Alfor,

thanks hugely for all your great work. You know, I'm very grateful for it !
Especially this piece is one of my favourites by Busoni. I played it several years ago. A professor of my university came surprisingly into my room (looking for another person) and asked me, why I'm playing such literature. He meant, I should stop to do that, it would be use- and worthless.
But I knew, that I was in love with this first theme of the sonatina. And I continued practising it, being happy with it.

Perhaps it's such things, too, why I didn't have a career.

WhatFuckEver !

[alfor]

Dear Alfor,

thanks hugely for all your great work. You know, I'm very grateful for it !
Especially this piece is one of my favourites by Busoni. I played it several years ago. A professor of my university came surprisingly into my room (looking for another person) and asked me, why I'm playing such literature. He meant, I should stop to do that, it would be use- and worthless.
But I knew, that I was in love with this first theme of the sonatina. And I continued practising it, being happy with it.

Perhaps it's such things, too, why I didn't have a career.

WhatFuckEver !

I can only encourage you to continue going your personal path!! Well, maybe you could compose music yourself, but
even if you can't or won't do that, we all know that the usual repertoire which is actually played in the concert hall, is extremely small. So please keep on playing some of the rarer pieces, many of which definitely ARE worth to be heard!

There are people who believe that you can change your personal reality with your individual thoughts...

[Ferruccio]

Dear Alfor,

thanks hugely for all your great work. You know, I'm very grateful for it !
Especially this piece is one of my favourites by Busoni. I played it several years ago. A professor of my university came surprisingly into my room (looking for another person) and asked me, why I'm playing such literature. He meant, I should stop to do that, it would be use- and worthless.
But I knew, that I was in love with this first theme of the sonatina. And I continued practising it, being happy with it.

Perhaps it's such things, too, why I didn't have a career.

WhatFuckEver !

I can only encourage you to continue going your personal path!! Well, maybe you could compose music yourself, but
even if you can't or won't do that, we all know that the usual repertoire which is actually played in the concert hall, is extremely small. So please keep on playing some of the rarer pieces, many of which definitely ARE worth to be heard!

There are people who believe that you can change your personal reality with your individual thoughts...

Thanks, Alfor ! You are so right !!

[alfor]

The music of Paul Hindemith has a strong intellectual trait. So my general attitude towards his work is a bit ambivalent.
His Second Sonata nevertheless is an often charming sonatina-like work. Like most of Hindemith's piano music it is in major parts completely unpianistic. I always felt a bit uncomfortable to "finger" through this music helter-skelter. So it was quite a challenge to find a decent fingering myself. Admittedly it is in parts a bit "special", but I am convinced that it would stand the test of a public performance. So I am curious about your opinions.

Let's start with movement I:

Hindemith Sonata #2 mvt. I fingered.pdf

BTW: Ferruccio, alias..., is a wonderful, successful, happy and well-known pianist!