The Art of Transcription...
...classical indeed (the very first bars faintly reminiscent of Schubert );
motto: „...if Mendelssohn would have written transcriptions...”
„JUGAR CON FUEGA“ (The Play With The Fire) is a famous Zarzuela
by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (Libretto by Ventura de la Vega),
premiered in 1851 in Madrid.
nms (alfor-edited)
Gonzalez del Valle Improvisata Jugar con fuego.pdf
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Best regards, Alfor S. Cans
Music is a higher revelation than wisdom and philosophy (Beethoven)
The Gonzalez 'Improvisata Jugar con fuego' is based on yet another operetta that I've never heard of, and dates from 1874. `El Barberillo de Lavapies,' or `The Little Barber of Lavapiés (it is a district of Madrid)' is set in eighteenth-century Madrid, and its funny libretto deals comically with political intrigues in the court of Carlos III. The action follows a comic 'common' couple, the barber Lamparilla and the seamstress Paloma, who help a `romantic' aristocratic couple in trouble with some royalty, Don Luis and the Marquesita. I will have fun finding which themes Gonzales used.
Thank you, Alfred.
P.S.: Even Granados tried his hand at the zazuela genre by reworking his Goyescas into one for the Met.
I find Gonzalez Rhapsody quite something. An amazing show piece. Liszt-like indeed, and some of the thematic material will be well familiar to Lisztonians. It is difficult, but very well written for the piano. Great fun playing through this terrific piece. How can music as good as this be ignored for so long?
Alfred, thank you for rescuing this composer from undeserved obscurity. If it weren't for you combing through the libraries, how would we have ever known about Gonzalez?