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Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 7:54 pm
by Paul
fleubis wrote:
I have earlier greatly enjoyed the Etudes Pittoresques by Stamaty and it is interesting to see that he can write in the Liszt style when he chooses. This set of "etudes" are stylistically quite different from the Pittoresques or his sonatas. A couple more and we'll have the entire Op.33 set.
Dear fleubis,
you can easily have all 6 Etudes of op.33 and many more of Stamaty here:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/Search?adva=1&adv ... 22&lang=de
or here
http://gallica.bnf.fr/Search?ArianeWire ... 2C+Camille
Best regards
Paul
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 9:55 pm
by fleubis
Dear Paul,
Thanks for the links. I looked and found No.6 there which it did not have No.3 which appears to be missing. There are a few other Stamaty original pieces there on gallica there as well. Alfor's scans are a bit cleaner than these from gallica, but gallica is useful for filling in gaps--which can be replaced when better scans come along.
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 10:44 pm
by alfor
fleubis wrote:...Alfor's scans are a bit cleaner than these from gallica, but gallica is useful for filling in gaps...
Dear Paul,
although I did not mention the exact source, most pianophilians should be aware that scores marked „nms“
are NOT „alfor“ scans but origin from digital libraries.
But I do some editing (which one or the other member may appreciate):
1) re-naming the file
2) deleting blank pages
3) size-cutting (which in many cases allows a larger print)
NB. Unfortunately the majority of the gallica scans are of a very low quality and I did not yet find a tool for general improvement.
I do not in any way want to „conceal“ the sources of „non-alfor“ scans, but if you tell me that the above mentioned editing is neither necessary nor appreciated by anybody, I of course will stop it and only occasionally post the respective links.
Best regards
alfor
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 2:18 am
by fleubis
Alfor, I think we appreciate the work you spend on cleaning up these "nms" files--it definitely makes for a cleaner presentation on the computer monitors and when printed out. Time well spent, IMHO.
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:33 am
by phikfy
Thanks Alfor for the effort. If it were not because of you, I would simply never notice this from Gallica. Your works are really invaluable for me.
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 12:47 pm
by alfor
Thank you for encouraging feedback!
Camille STAMATY (1811-1870)
6 Études caracteristiques sur Oberon
Ópera de Weber
pour piano
No. 6 Séduction et magie
nms (but alfor-edited)
Stamaty Etude op.33,6.pdf
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Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 2:56 pm
by fleubis
phikfy wrote:Thanks Alfor for the effort. If it were not because of you, I would simply never notice this from Gallica. Your works are really invaluable for me.
This is exactly the point! Alfor is doing an amazing job of finding scores languishing away unnoticed by hardly anyone which need to be dusted off and played. He often discovers masterpieces. I've always thought of Gallica as a vast wasteland of worthless music, but that was sometime ago. The mystery remaining is how Alfor chooses his scores!
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 6:15 pm
by alfor
Dear fleubis,
You are welcome!!!!
Give 'em a face:
Rare French Picture Postcards of French Musicians (alfor scans):
French Musicians A.pdf
French Musicians B.pdf
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Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:38 pm
by fleubis
Rare pix of Lalo and Gounod indeed! One lives in hope that an undiscovered pix of Alkan will emerge someday.
Re: French Piano Music
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 3:15 pm
by alfor
Amédée MÉREAUX
Sonate élégiaque op. 99
nms (but alfor-edited)
Mereaux Sonate elegiaque op.99.pdf
Academic but well-written piece, with a nice Mendelssonian Tarantella as final movement.
Quotations of verses of poems by [/color]
HUGO and LAMARTINE:
Victor Hugo
Last verse of the famous poem „Demain dès l'aube“ which he wrote mourning the premature death of his daughter who drowned at the age of 19:
„I'll see neither the gold of evening gloom
Nor the sails off to Harfleur far away;
And when I come, I'll place upon your tomb
Some flowering heather and a holly spray.“
Alphonse de Lamartine
Sadness
The sad soul is like
The sweet sky of night
When the slumbering star
In the rosy vault
Silences the noise;
From mammoth poem „Jocelyn“
„et la priere est le parfum des coeurs“
„and prayer is the scent of hearts“
It appears, though, that Liszt, who also fell severely under the the spell of Lamartine, could much better convert into music all the elegiac qualities, the „suffering from life“, the religious ecstasy, the lachrymosity, which our generation can hardly reproduce.[/i]