French Piano Music

[phikfy]

Wow, thanks Alfor. Very invaluable scan of the Mirrors!!

[alfor]

Without going to the bookshelves..... i vaguely remember, R Casadesus had edited for Schirmir (under the great performers series) some Ravel's works.... was it Gaspard, or Sonatine??

Robert edited Sonatine and Gaby edited Jeux d'eau and Gaspard (all still in print).
Also of interest: „Ma Technique Quotidienne“ („My Daily Technique“) by Gaby Casadesus (Max Eschig).

[soh choon wee]

Without going to the bookshelves..... i vaguely remember, R Casadesus had edited for Schirmir (under the great performers series) some Ravel's works.... was it Gaspard, or Sonatine??

Robert edited Sonatine and Gaby edited Jeux d'eau and Gaspard (all still in print).
Also of interest: „Ma Technique Quotidienne Piano“ by Gaby Casadesus (Durand).

„Ma Technique Quotidienne Piano“ by Gaby Casadesus (Durand) should be of great interest.... never see it before.
Alas I guess it is still under copyright, perhaps, the first five pages is OK???

[alfor]

...„Ma Technique Quotidienne Piano“ by Gaby Casadesus (Durand) should be of great interest.... never see it before.
Alas I guess it is still under copyright, perhaps, the first five pages is OK???

Yes, still in print and under copyright. Unfortunately I do not yet own a copy! (Price in EU is 20-25 Euros).

[pianojay]

Hello All,
I do own Gaby's excellent "Ma Technique Quotidienne": efficiently chosen exercises, plus a section with excerpts from French repertoire to zero in on specific difficulties. Here attached is one page from it.

Casadesus, Gaby-Moszkowski Etude.pdf

[4candles]

This is, as usual, a long shot, but does anyone have anything by a "Mme Renaud-Maury". She was a member of the Société des compositeurs in the late 19th-early 20th centuries and seems to have won an award for a work for piano and orchestra...

Also, a member of the same society, Pierre Kunc also seems to have won an award for a concertante work for piano and orchestra, but I can't find any trace of this, despite there being some organ works by him on IMSLP.

[Jean-Séb]

This is, as usual, a long shot, but does anyone have anything by a "Mme Renaud-Maury". She was a member of the Société des compositeurs in the late 19th-early 20th centuries and seems to have won an award for a work for piano and orchestra...

A patriotic song is available on Gallica :
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85948869
For the rest, it seems that her works are quite difficult to find :

- Marie Renaud-Maury a été la première femme à obtenir un prix de composition au Conservatoire de Paris, en 1876. A part quelques courtes pièces, ses oeuvres ont disparu, notamment son Trio, joué à la Société Nationale de Musique en 1876 et 1879, ainsi que son Concerto pour piano et sa Deuxième Fantaisie symphonique pour piano et orchestre primés à la Société des Compositeurs de Musique en 1892 et 1898.

http://web-archive-net.com/page/3618731 ... laide.html

Also, a member of the same society, Pierre Kunc also seems to have won an award for a concertante work for piano and orchestra, but I can't find any trace of this, despite there being some organ works by him on IMSLP.

Pierre Kunc is less known than his brother Aymé Kunc. He mostly composed religious music and organ music.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Kunc
Gallica has a sacred song by him :
http://numerique.bibliotheque.toulouse. ... yMQ3IUl_X0

[soh choon wee]

Hello All,
I do own Gaby's excellent "Ma Technique Quotidienne": efficiently chosen exercises, plus a section with excerpts from French repertoire to zero in on specific difficulties. Here attached is one page from it.

Casadesus, Gaby-Moszkowski Etude.pdf

This one page sampler is certainly testimony to the good work.....

Could it be possible to also scan------JUST the content (inhalt) page??? I am rather intrigue by the description "plus a section with excerpts from French repertoire to zero in on specific difficulties", I am curious which repertoire was being featured. (I am not too sure if I could even ask for a page for any one of the repertoire???)

[pianojay]

The contents of Gaby Casadesus' "Ma Technique Quotidienne":
Stretching exercises, Exercise for the suppleness of the wrist, Exercise for the third and fourth fingers in thirds, Exercise for the passing of the thumb, Exercise for the passing of the thumb and for the fourth and fifth fingers,
Exercises for thirds, Octave exercises, Scales, Arpeggios, Broken arpeggios, Thirds.
The passages selected from various French piano works include:
Saint-Saëns-4th Concerto
Debussy-Poissons d'or, L'Isle Joyeuse, and Feux d'artifice
Fauré-Impromptu No. 2
Ravel-Toccata, Alborada del Gracioso, Ondine, Scarbo
Casadesus-Toccata
Dutilleux-Sonata

[fleubis]

Dear pianojay,

Thank you for posting the contents of Gaby Casadesus' "Ma Technique Quotidienne", and that was enough for me to immediately order the score.

Dear Alfred,

The Casadesus Mirrors is a lesson on how to really mark up a score! There are a lot of valuable and useful suggestions in this. Am very glad this wasn't reduced to black & white!

Croze's overblown transcription of the Turkish March is is rather hilarious and I can put it next to Volodos version. Goodness!

Quite a treat, Alfred!