Pianophilia

This posting dedicated to America's foremost musicologist :

Max HAEFELIN
Swiss composer, 1898-1952. Info in German: http://www.zb.unizh.ch/spezialsammlunge ... ex.html.de
Born in St. Gallen. Studied in Weimar (piano, composition, conducting). Various posts as répétiteur, conductor and singing teacher.
Intermezzi As Dur / A-Dur / Cis-MollWonderful pieces of great beauty (esp. Nos. 1 & 3). Masterly composed in a sort of post-Brahms idiom. Surely among the best pieces I have posted in this forum!!! My favourite is No. 1, closely followed by No. 3 with the wonderful pedal point on page 10.

P.S. Haefelin's wife Susi (1901-1990) published her memoirs:
"Sabines Weg nach St. Gallen. Drei Stationen meines Lebens."

Dear Alfred,

What a wonderful way to begin a morning...reading through these absolutely beautiful pieces by Max Haefelin! I'm asking myself, "where has this composer been all my life??" These intermezzi are pure gold. And I am amazed by the composition dating from 1934....now that is a late Romantic composer! What a discovery! Your keen eye for the greatest piano literature is beyond comparison; truly discoveries like this are monumental. Thanks so much...I'll be playing these all weekend!!

All Best,

Frank

(PS...I like No. 1 the best also, gorgeous rich tonality...but each one is a gem in its own right!)

fhimpsl wrote:...What a wonderful way to begin a morning...reading through these absolutely beautiful pieces by Max Haefelin!...

Dear early riser,

you are welcome! - The only other piano work by H. I know of is a short (7 pages) set of variations on Brahms' Wiegenlied. (Probably only available in some Swiss libraries).

Best regards

Alfred (middle-early riser )

Vladimir GRUDIN (Ukrainian composer; in later life settled in Paris and finally moved to New York)
Two Piano Pieces op. 19:
Waltz
Farandole (french folk dance)

Thank you so much!! And also a late thank you but I love the Fuchs you lastly posted... I've been playing some and it's filled with great melodies.

Posted as an example of the piano style of this russian-born (?) composer, who apparently lived in France for most of his life (any further infos welcome!):

Arkady (de) (Ugritsachist*) - TREBINSKY
Douze Preludes (this edition is a re-issue, first issued in the 1920s) *Ougritchitch

Alfred, I've not much to add to what Frank said about the beautiful Haefelin Intermezzi--it is a lush late romantic banquet. Such a pity we have so little from this composer, but am very grateful for these lovely intermezzi.

alfor wrote:Posted as an example of the piano style of this russian-born (?) composer, who apparently lived in France for most of his life (any further infos welcme!):
Arkady (de) (Ugritsachist*) - TREBINSKY
*Ougritchitch

Arkady Ougritchich of Trebinsky (1897-1982).
Born in Ukraine in the oblast of Poltava, he joined the Imperial High School of St-Petersbourg and studied music at Kiev, Berlin and Paris. He left Russia in 1919 and was travelling in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Yougoslavia before settling in France where he obtained the French nationality in 1949. He got married in 1920 with Helena of Leuchtenberg, Countess Wolkonsky, descendant of one of daughters of Nicolas 1st and grand-granddaugther of Eugène de Beauharnais.
Founder of the club of contemporary music, and later Director of Academy of Russian music in Paris (which became the Rachmaninoff Conservatoire). He left 59 very varied works of music (symphonies, works for piano, melodies, sonatas, etc). He died on March 10th, 1982 in the town of Asnières-sur-seine near Paris.
He was a cousin to Igor Markevitch.

alfor wrote:Wilhelm STENHAMMAR (1871-1927)
Tre fantasier op. 11 (1895)

Stenhammar Tre fantasier op.11.pdf

somewhat naive but warmly felt "nordic" style

Hello Alfor,

About Stenhammar, I'm looking for the -Sonata in Sol min.-
Have it?

Thanks
Duirton

Duirton wrote:

alfor wrote:...About Stenhammar, I'm looking for the -Sonata in Sol min.-
Have it?

Sorry, I don't have it and I cannot locate it in any German library. But it is still in print and can be ordered here:

http://www.musikaliskakonstforeningen.se/piano_en.html