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To Ferruccio, with compliments!
...I hope it is not beneath your dignity to play such simple music...

Leopold GODOWSKY
Sonata
1st movement fingered

alfor wrote:To Ferruccio, with compliments!
...I hope it is not beneath your dignity to play such simple muisc...

Leopold GODOWSKY
Sonata
1st movement fingered

Godowsky Sonata IA fingered.pdf

Godowsky Sonata IB fingered.pdf

Godowsky Sonata IC fingered.pdf

Godowsky Sonata ID fingered.pdf

Hey, Alfor,

thank you very much for the "dedication" of your recent posting.
No, it is not beneath my dignity!
I have had the sheet music of this piece in my hands several times, seriously wanting to start learning. But then other projects and daily work made me stop again.
Now I have your fingering and this may help the piece to get into my repertoire !

Thank you !

Best wishes,
Ferruccio

P.S.: I'm busy with Haydn at the moment, though.

Dear Alfor,

Thank you for taking some of the mystery out of the beautiful Godowsky Sonata with the posting of your most excellent fingering. No way I could come up with something this good. This is a really nice work that deserves to be heard more so I hope when Ferruccio had completed his work on Haydn he can add this to his "next-to-be-learned" que.

Thank you for feedback!!

Please let me know if you are interested in fingered versions of the other movements.
Once you have mastered the first movement, the rest of the sonata are minor challenges.
Imho this Sonata contains some of the best music Godowsky has written.
I especially like the "Viennese" atmosphere of this piece - influences ranging from Brahms via Johann Strauss
to early Alban Berg!

Ferruccio wrote: P.S.: I'm busy with Haydn at the moment, though.

Haydn Sonatas can be real gems - if played like this:
http://shellackophile.blogspot.de/2011/ ... t-and.html

out-of-print:

Karl MARX
Sonatine op. 48/1
Sort of very mellow post-Hindemith style. A useful chart:
Audio:
Doris Pines plays Godowsky (Side A)

alfor wrote:out-of-print:

Karl MARX
Sonatine op. 48/1
Sort of very mellow post-Hindemith style.

Marx Sonatine op.48,1.pdf

A useful chart:

Chopin Merrick Nocturnes fioriture.pdf

Audio:
Doris Pines plays Godowsky (Side A)

Excellent post as always Alfor. I'm enjoying the Hindemith-style pieces you've posted as of late--quite refreshing. I wish I had a chart similar to the Merrick when I was working on Chopin's nocturnes many years ago. All that time spent with a magnifying glass and slide rule trying to work out those daunting bits of filigree work!

Dear Alfred, what a delightful little piece the Marx Sonatina is. Being a fan of Hindemith, it certainly seems to fall into that niche. It is very welcome addition. (I have always wondered what with all the Hindemith students and influence he had, there seems to be no Hindemith that we can comfortably drop composers such as Marx in.) Anyway, it is a very comfortable style for the ear.

The Merrick "fioriture"...a what? So Google Translate says a Fiorture is an "arabesque, embellishment, ornament or filling" so that helps, and I've never seen a chart quite like this, it only lacks Alfor fingerings ( ). but these pieces are so well known to most of us that we fingerings are probably already carved in granite.

A most interesting posting. Thank you!

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