Pianophilia

I am sure these pieces will please Frank and toyb..., sorry, tobyjj (and hopefully many others):

Ernst RENTSCH (German - or Swiss? - composer, 1844-1886)
Skizzen Fünf Klavierstücke op. 26Fine 19th century pieces of medium difficulty.
Commonplace material, but at no place imitating other composers
(except for a bit of Grieg in the last piece).

Paul LACOMBE (French composer, 1837-1927)
Deuxieme Suite op. 64Older French school (Saint-Saens, Franck)

alfor wrote:Posted as an example of the piano writing of a little known woman composer:

Grete von ZIERITZ (Austrian-German pianist and composer, 1899-2001;
pupil of Mojsisovics von Mojsvár, Schreker, Krause, Breithaupt)
Präludium und Fuge (c-moll)

Zieritz Präl.&F.pdf

Powerful post-Brahms/Reger style

Wow, as well as writing great music, von Zieritz managed to live in three centuries!

Hope Sigismund deserves a high-quality scan:

Sigismund STOJOWSKI
Vier Stücke für das Pianoforte op. 26Has something in common with Paderewski and X. Scharwenka -
perhaps slightly more "salon" than the latter.

Hope Sigismund has deserved a high-quality scan:

Sigismund THALBERG
Fantaisie pour le piano sur des themes
de l'Opera Moise de G. Rossini op. 33

Thanks Alfor this Thalberg, which was missing from my collection,
a nice 57th. birthday present, which strangely didn't get an automatic
mention today, despite the details being in my member profile.

As regards Zieritz, apart from having distinction of having a name
starting and ending in Z like Zez Confrey, by spanning 3 centuries
she also was composed in the 19th., composed in the 20th., and
decomposed in the 21st. centuries!

alfor wrote:Hope Sigismund has deserved a high-quality scan:

Sigismund THALBERG
Fantaisie pour le piano sur des themes
de l'Opera Moise de G. Rossini op. 33

Thalberg Fantaisie Moise op.33.pdf

Excellent clear scan Alfred. I do have an original of this but it is rather fragile and would not have come out as nice as this.

Due to lack of practise, my fingers are nowhere near the level to have a good go at this, but at least I have a good clean copy to scribble on my fingerings should I get the urge.

Luv

Thal

Dear Timtin, dear Thal,

thank you for your feedback!
And Happy Birthday to you, Timtin, with a lot of good wishes
especially to have always enough good scores at hand!!

Best regards

alfor

Hope Sigismund deserves a high-quality scan:

Sigismund STOJOWSKI
Polnische Idyllen op. 24

Dear Alfor, it is great to have such a clean copy of the Thalberg! I have only recently been looking at his pieces and had much fun with this Fantasie--they don't write fun pieces like this any more. Much pleasure with the Stojowski Idylls.....these are high quality pieces with good ideas that are well written and of a nice intermediate level which should find a home on many pianos. Wish I could have heard pieces like this when I was in Poland earlier this year, but it was all the usual standard repertoire (as usual). Thanks for these great additions to our growing collections.