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fleubis wrote:Thank you, Alfred, for the Neal op.70. I do like his shifting harmonies in these little pieces. No.2 seems to have all the time signatures covered! I hope Neal didn't write any orchestral music with a time signature setup like this!

You would never guess from listening to No. 2 that it had any strange time signature set up at all!

Phillip210 wrote:

fleubis wrote:Thank you, Alfred, for the Neal op.70. I do like his shifting harmonies in these little pieces. No.2 seems to have all the time signatures covered! I hope Neal didn't write any orchestral music with a time signature setup like this!

You would never guess from listening to No. 2 that it had any strange time signature set up at all!

Yes, amazingly, Neal's bar lines are musically correct and it all flows along naturally. The bar lines seem to make more sense than scoring it like Satie would--without bars.

As promised, a couple more works by Emil von Sauer.

Malcolm


Scherzo Valse Aus Lichten Tagen (apologies, not perfect [snipped off staves] - although all the notes are shown)

Goodness! Sauer was quite prolific. We can depend on Alfor for these obscure bits of musical history!.

Thanks to Malcom for the additional Sauer pieces. "Aus Lichten Tagen" is a nice collection of 5 short character pieces and I especially like No. 1 "Erste Lenzesboten" - which I hope someone can translate for us. These pieces do remind me of Schumann.

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fleubis wrote:Goodness! Sauer was quite prolific. We can depend on Alfor for these obscure bits of musical history!.

Thanks to Malcom for the additional Sauer pieces. "Aus Lichten Tagen" is a nice collection of 5 short character pieces and I especially like No. 1 "Erste Lenzesboten" - which I hope someone can translate for us. These pieces do remind me of Schumann.

To my (enhanced ) knowledge Sauer had 9 children with his first wife (ref.: S.'s memoirs „Mein Leben“) and 2 sons with his second wife, his pupil Angelica Morales, which he married in 1939!

„Erste Lenzesboten“ = „First messengers of springtime”. „Lenz“ is the poetical term for „Frühling” („spring”); you may know the German folk-song „Nun will der Lenz uns grüßen“, actually composed in 1885 by a certain August Fischer; words by Karl Ströse based on medivial sources.

alfor wrote:I was reminded that Sauer had 10 legitimate children (I think he was over 80 when No. 10 was born!)

Given that he was 80 when he died one wonders whether the two were linked in some way...

Regards
Fred

fredbucket wrote:

alfor wrote:I was reminded that Sauer had 10 legitimate children (I think he was over 80 when No. 10 was born!)

Given that he was 80 when he died one wonders whether the two were linked in some way...

Regards
Fred

...it should read: Sauer was a approaching 80 when he begot two sons...

Emil - his etudes are much more substantial and well worth exploring. All of them are available on IMSLP and a selection here on Pianophilia [posted by Alfor].

My last two works by Emil von Sauer [apologies, again not brilliant copies to work from, but readable].

Malcolm

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