Pianophilia

Found some scores in my local library.
As an appetizer "Romanza", the first piece of Sevillana op.63 (1919).
The sheets are in a scanner unfriendly format - 25x33 cm -, so I long for an A3 scanner ...
Mandolinata, Bolero and Serenata will come the next days, if the snowfall allows it.

best regards , diros

diros wrote:Found some scores in my local library.
As an appetizer "Romanza", the first piece of Sevillana op.63 (1919).
The sheets are in a scanner unfriendly format - 25x33 cm -, so I long for an A3 scanner ...
Mandolinata, Bolero and Serenata will come the next days, if the snowfall allows it.

best regards , diros

Thanks, diros, for this charming little addition to our Nieman collection. I just love these little souvenirs that composers make of their travels.

It is snowing and snowing and niemanning Mandolinata (from Sevillana, op.63 No.2) ...

diros

diros wrote:It is snowing and snowing and niemanning Mandolinata (from Sevillana, op.63 No.2) ...

diros

What a lovely piece. Seems Niemann might have been familiar with Albéniz "Suite Espagnole" Asturias (Leyenda) to which it is quite similar. Thanks, diros.

fleubis wrote:

diros wrote:It is snowing and snowing and niemanning Mandolinata (from Sevillana, op.63 No.2) ...

diros

What a lovely piece. Seems Niemann might have been familiar with Albéniz "Suite Espagnole" Asturias (Leyenda) to which it is quite similar. Thanks, diros.

Dear fleubis,
you are welcome! And your enthusiasm for the music gives wings to my scanner life.
Here is Bolero, op.63 No.3.
Enjoy , diros

diros wrote:

fleubis wrote:

diros wrote:It is snowing and snowing and niemanning Mandolinata (from Sevillana, op.63 No.2) ...

diros

What a lovely piece. Seems Niemann might have been familiar with Albéniz "Suite Espagnole" Asturias (Leyenda) to which it is quite similar. Thanks, diros.

Dear fleubis,
you are welcome! And your enthusiasm for the music gives wings to my scanner life.
Here is Bolero, op.63 No.3.
Enjoy , diros

Ah, a charming little Bolero from our illustrious Mr. Niemann. A beautiful vignette, an album leaf as it were. Thanks again, diros.

And here Serenata, the last piece of op.63.
best regards , diros

Dear diros,

thanks a lot for the complete op.63. It was one of several Niemann scores I ordered last week via inter-library-loan. So when the scores arrive I will have one less to scan. Thanks!!

Paul

diros wrote:And here Serenata, the last piece of op.63.
best regards , diros

Thanks diros......it is nice to have this complete set of miniatures.

fleubis wrote:

diros wrote:... As an appetizer "Romanza", the first piece of Sevillana op.63 (1919). ... Mandolinata, Bolero and Serenata will come the next days, if the snowfall allows it. BR diros

Thanks, diros, for this charming little addition to our Nieman collection. I just love these little souvenirs that composers make of their travels.

Reading Niemans's autobiography, it seems that WN never travelled much and/or far awy. He reports that he had an enormous collection of international trains' and shipping companies time-tables, travelbooks etc. - everything was lost after a bombing night, one of his most fatal losses.

WN had good personal contacts to many persons from abroad visiting him. Once a lady asked him after a recital with "Alt-China" how it was in Asia; he answered: "Please excuse me, Ma'am, but my trips took place only in my mind."

A little similar to the career of German author Karl May (1842-1912) who wrote a lot of travel reports. He described himself as "Old Shatterhand", some kind of (US) Western hero, and "Kara ben Nemsi" (Charles Son of Germans), an North African and Arabian hero, he invented "Winnetou", an attractive US indian chief, all very popular in Germany, not only in youth bookshelves.

Karl May was never in these far countries before writing his books (in which he even spoke the natives' idiom and always was more clever than the local villains). Later in his life - after hard years, even in jail - he was able to visit some places. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_May

The difference to Walter Niemann: Karl May did not admit that his phantasy guided himself and his writing. In this sence WN is the far more serious creator.