Composers from Germany [Misc]

[zeniyama]

I have a request. There's a set of six piano pieces by Max Bruch on IMSLP, which can be found at this link: http://imslp.org/wiki/6_Klavierst%C3%BC ... ruch,_Max) The pieces all seem to be fine to me; however, for some reason the score keeps on disappearing within the pdf document when I scroll or turn the page. This doesn't happen with any of my other sheet music files, so I'm guessing that it's something wrong with the file itself. So, does anybody have a copy of these pieces that doesn't go blank when you try scrolling or turning the pages? I'd appreciate it very much if somebody could help me out.

[Georgio]

Here it is - this copy works fine.

Bruch_6_Piano_Pieces_Op.12.pdf

Regards

[tobyjj]

Hello Fred,

Daniel Steibelt was born in Germany of a French family, and spent much of his life in England, France and Russia.

I couldn't find a thread which fitted all of that, so this contribution onf the Sonata in G minor op.23 from the Bavarian Library goes in here - http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/000 ... 65/images/

Regards
Fréd

I've visited the Bavarian Library (online) before and have always been intimidated by the prospect of having to download image after image in order to get a complete piece. Consequently I've never got a complete piece from there. Is there a handy trick or hidden button anywhere that allows a download as a zip, or other archived file or even a complete pdf. Just curious (and hopeful).

Thanks,
tobyjj

[fredbucket]

The following example will illustrate -

Bavarian Libray Example.jpg

. You will see a 'PDF Dowload' button in the top right hand corner ...

Regards
Fred

[tobyjj]

Hello Fred,

Yes indeed - NOW I do see a pdf button.
I wonder why I didn't see that before and have never noticed it.
Studies apparently show that women see things in fridges that men simply do not see.
That website is not, however, a fridge.

I'm very grateful to you for pointing out the "button" - but I do feel rather foolish (or sheepish) - maybe it's a Welsh thing!

Thanks, Fred

Regards,
anonymous

[sgambatiesque]

Hello Fred,

Yes indeed - NOW I do see a pdf button.
I wonder why I didn't see that before and have never noticed it.

I think it's poor site design to put an action as a link on the navigation bar, rather than as a button with the other document actions.

[GJF323]

Not really sure where to put this; this thread fits about as good as any.

Rio Gebhardt op.4 Alt Wiener Weisen im modernen Stil

I'm not sure what "modern style" is being referred to here - it may be more modern than a Bach fugue, but this isn't exactly Rites of Spring. And I don't know that you can call any of your pieces modern if there is a picture on the back showing you conducting the Berlin Simfonie-Orchester at age 12 in your best Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit. Or a picture on the front with you and your brother in your sailor outfits. Anyway, here is a nice salon/concert waltz.

Gebhardt Rio op.4 Alt Wiener Weisen im modernen Stil.pdf

[tobyjj]

Hello GJF,

perhaps in the salon music forum .. but maybe that's a moderator's decision.

A site search shows that previous Rio Gebhardt posts were mostly in Alfor's forum, though Frank's were in the 4 hand forum and the Syncop. section.
A quick glance at the file suggests a rather stiff formal style (almost CHopinesque - if that is "stiff & formal" - but the "direction' ,(in moderne stil), suggests , perhaps a free swing interpretation. I don't know. Frank will, I'm sure.

'Has it ever been recorded?

Those sailor outfits do crack me up. reminds me of the sort of nonsense my great grandmother tried to make my father wear and which he subsequently banned from the house!

thanks for posting this.

regards,
tobyjj

[GJF323]

Indeed tobyjj, salon music might be the place. I would never, of course, put a contribution in Alfor's thread. The problem with the syncopated thread is that while syncopated/jazz is what we know Gebhardt would be, he isn't syncopated at this point. But he is probably only about 12 or a little older when he wrote this.

I don't think that this is other than what it seems to be - a concert piece for this brother Ferry to play and amaze the elders (the cover says that Ferry performs it).

I can't decide which is more amusing - the sailor outfits on the front or the "Blue Boy" outfit on back. Especially with the hair styled to match the outfit on the back. I think I could be forced into the sailor outfits, hot as they appear to be, before I would wear the other outfit. Although I do wear a rococo gold outfit for Halloween with Venetian mask.

[fhimpsl]

Dear GJF and Toby,

First off, many many thanks for this Rio Gebhardt rarity, GJF! I'd done some research work on this composer many years ago and this Walzer-im Modernen Styl certainly isn't at our Library of Congress! Of course it's not syncopated in any way, but still falls under the blanket of syncopated novelties as Gebhardt was quite active in that idiom during the 1930s. Posting under German composers is fine, since it would still turn up in a site search for the composer. It's a piece akin to fledgling efforts of other novelty artists such as Billy Mayerl ("Egyptian Suite").

A real nice addition to the novelty repertoire!

All Best,

Frank