Pianophilia

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Pedro Umberto ALLENDE
(unfortunately a lowres scan )

alfor wrote:nms:

Pedro Umberto ALLENDE
(unfortunately a lowres scan )

Try this scan [My Post 28-05 - 2010]

Thanks you Alfor & lito valle for rescuing Allende's 4 etudes from undeserved obscurity--my favorite of the pieces posted today. Meanwhile, my ears continue to struggle to differentiate between a valse and a mazurka as expressed by most composers (other than Chopin). In the case of Nava's, the third beat is the hint as to what is what.

lito valle wrote:

alfor wrote:nms:

Pedro Umberto ALLENDE
(unfortunately a lowres scan )

Try this scan

Allende, Humberto - Four Etudes (pno.)(1929).pdf

[My Post 28-05 - 2010]

Indeed a much better scan. Thank you very much. Sorry that I overlocked these, but in order to be searchable your files have to be „placed inline“.

P.S. Do you also have Allende's set of 6 Etudes?

Alexander TANZMANN

Out-of-print (and not allowed for prisoners at war camps !)

alfor scan:

nms (alternative scan, slighly better than sibley's):

Thank you Alfred, for the nice Tansman Sonata.....one does wonder why it was verboten in a POW camp in Tennessee. I find it an interesting work and difficult for my small hands in places.

Now for a few words on José Antonio de San Sebastian.......or as IMSLP has it: José Antonio de Donostia

(b San Sebastian, 10 Jan 1886; d Lecároz, 30 Aug 1956). Spanish composer. He studied in Barcelona, San Sebastian and Paris (with Roussel), and was an organist until he was appointed in 1943 to direct folk music studies at the Spanish Institute of Musicology (he was an authority on Basque music). His early works are Romantic-impressionist in style, his later (notably a Requiem, 1945, and choral music) show more refinement and concision.

I am at loss as to file him under San Sebastian or Donostial, definitely he wrote some nice pieces and had fun playing through this volume today.

For everybody's SM folder:

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nms (never miss scans):

Thank you, Alfred. My SM folder does need to put on a little weight!

María Teresa Carreño García de Sena (December 22, 1853 – June 12, 1917) was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor.

Born into a musical family, she was at first taught by her father, then by Georges Mathias, Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Anton Rubinstein, and her talent was recognized at an early age. In 1862 her family emigrated to New York City, and at the age of 8 she made her debut at Irving Hall that same year. In 1863 she performed for Abraham Lincoln at the White House. In 1866 she moved to Europe, and began touring, making her debut as an opera singer in 1876. Franz Liszt offered her lessons, but she declined.[1] She did not return to Venezuela until 1885, and then only for a short period. In 1889 she returned to Europe for more touring, settling in Berlin. She mounted two world tours in the early years of the twentieth century, but her health deteriorated and she died in 1917, in her apartment in New York City.