Pianophilia

Fr. LISZT
OEUVRES D'ORGUE
de
J. S. BACH
transcrite pour le piano
1re SUITE (fingered edition! Not by alfor but supposedly by Isidor Philipp)

To parag, with compliments:

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Sonata op. 2 No. 1 edited by Bronislaw von Pozniak

alfor wrote:To parag, with compliments:

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Sonata op. 2 No. 1 edited by Bronislaw von Pozniak

Beethoven Sonata op.2,1 ed. v. Pozniak.pdf

Thank you very much Alfor. Absolutely did not know about this lovely edition or von Poźniak for that matter. Wikipedia has a surprisingly good write up about him:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronisław_von_Poźniak

Best regards,
Parag

In 1984 I had found a set of this work, in perfect conditions, in a second hand book shop in Phoenix, Az, and bought the whole set for peanuts (!). I remember that the italian piano musicologist Piero Rattalino, looking at some of the interesting non-circulating photo portraits of many famous pianists of the time inserted in the Jonas books, realized that he could then confirm many of his theories about the sound produced by those pianists in the early recordings. He theorized that they should have taken a rather high position at the keyboard, and some photos of Busoni and others fully confirmed his hypothesis. The 2nd hand bookshop had just acquired the Jonas and many (at that time) rare scores by Godowsky and others from an old pupil of Godowsky himself, who had settled in Phoenix. Of course I bought everything I could find there, for no more than 2 - 3 $ for each volume !

Caprotti wrote:In 1984 I had found a set of this work, in perfect conditions, in a second hand book shop in Phoenix, Az, and bought the whole set for peanuts (!). I remember that the italian piano musicologist Piero Rattalino, looking at some of the interesting non-circulating photo portraits of many famous pianists of the time inserted in the Jonas books, realized that he could then confirm many of his theories about the sound produced by those pianists in the early recordings. He theorized that they should have taken a rather high position at the keyboard, and some photos of Busoni and others fully confirmed his hypothesis. The 2nd hand bookshop had just acquired the Jonas and many (at that time) rare scores by Godowsky and others from an old pupil of Godowsky himself, who had settled in Phoenix. Of course I bought everything I could find there, for no more than 2 - 3 $ for each volume !

Congratulations!!!

I recently bought a price-reduced copy of vol. I (Dover edition) for about $10.00.
I hope Dover will issue the whole series.
As with all books of this kind, a carefully selected choice of exercises will do, but these (together with the interesting photo portraits and the instructional texts) will prove to be really fruitful!

alfor wrote:

fleubis wrote:...thorny Stravinsky movement...

Sorry, but I misunderstood the word "thorny". It is completely apt to describe the movement!
I mixed it up with "angry, furious, irate"
I should have realized that it is related to the German word "dornig" and not to the word "zornig"!

Nice to know I got something right!

Alfred, the JONAS series is quite a remarkable and as useful today as when first published some 90 years ago. I sure wish I had been aware of this set when I was younger, the infos in this series are timeless and full of unique and useful exercises. There are some many interesting sections that it is hard to know where to start, but this one caught my eye:

"It is well to practise all the scales with the C major fingering, but after this has been done repeatedly do not waste time on it and resume practice with the normal fingering."

Anyway, I found this most interesting after having played through your fingering of the Stravinsky 1st Mov't. (Thanks for posting it.)

I do hope Dover will publish this whole Jonas series--A publication of this size and utility deserves a paper copy!

Thanks for unearthing this massive treasure trove.

Heinrich Kaspar SCHMID
Die Tänzerin
Capriccio op. 39 Semi-virtuosic, slightly „bieder“ dance piece (compared to French examples of this genre).