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Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 12:08 pm
by musiclife217
4candles wrote:I'm posting this Gallica link here, even though some of the composers in the collection aren't French.
The individual pieces themselves might be available elsewhere too, but I thought it was a nice collection, especially as it includes a hand-written piece by Rossini.
Some of the pieces are challenging enough to boot!
"Keepsake des pianistes", from 1841.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b5 ... .r=.langFR
Thank you for highlighting this - I was very interested to see it! is a PDF available?
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 1:20 pm
by fleubis
Seconded! 4Candles--I would never have spotted this without you highlighting this for us. This is worth having in our libraries for the Rossini alone let alone the other interesting pieces. I will have much fun today deciphering Rossini's handwriting.
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 1:25 pm
by alfor
musiclife217 wrote:...Thank you for highlighting this - I was very interested to see it! is a PDF available?
Yes:
Keepsake des Pianistes 1841.pdf
(Not exactly dominated by
French composers
)
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 2:36 pm
by Jean-Séb
alfor wrote:(Not exactly dominated by
French composers
)
But most of them had settled in Paris, at least for a while around 1841 !
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 2:48 pm
by alfor
Jean-Séb wrote:alfor wrote:(Not exactly dominated by
French composers
)
But most of them had settled in Paris, at least for a while around 1841 !
That appears to be correct - Paris being a major musical centre at that time!
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 11:04 pm
by liveforpiano
Dear fleubis.
That Rossini work appears further through in the volume in a printed form, so no need to decipher the manuscript.
Peter.
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 1:34 am
by fleubis
liveforpiano wrote:Dear fleubis.
That Rossini work appears further through in the volume in a printed form, so no need to decipher the manuscript.
Peter.
Thanks you, Sir Peter. It took a while to get there, playing through all that VERY interesting music in that collection and to see Rossini maintaining the composer tradition of illegible handwriting.
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 9:15 am
by 4candles
Glad you all liked it!
Thanks to Alfor for PDFing it.
4c
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 11:09 am
by musiclife217
4candles wrote:Glad you all liked it!
Thanks to Alfor for PDFing it.
4c
Yes, thank you!
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:11 pm
by alfor