Pianophilia

4candles wrote:Would anyone have anything (I'm thinking etudes/sonatas) by the following elusive French composers:

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Georges Mathias

Thanks
4c

It seems a few pieces by Mathias are available in digitized format at the National Library of Spain (a quick search on the webpages for their digitised material will throw up a good few results).

4c

Here's something for Fleubis to get his fingers stuck into..Regards
Fred

Here is a link to an 'Illustration on Faust' by French composer Joseph Grégoir:

http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000070026&page=1

I am also about to post a link to book IV of his Grandes Etudes in the Etudes thread.

fredbucket wrote:Here's something for Fleubis to get his fingers stuck into..

mathias, george - velocity.pdf

Regards
Fred

Thank you Fred! I do like how after exercising the right hand, Mathias gives the left hand a shot at it. Velocity is a rather apt name for this little piece as one can attain a pretty rapid tempo rather quickly due to the simple figurations.

4candles wrote:

4candles wrote:..It seems a few pieces by Mathias are available in digitized format at the National Library of Spain (a quick search on the webpages for their digitised material will throw up a good few results).

4c

Yes, indeed:

http://www.iberoamericadigital.net/BDPI/Search.do

Thanks for the link, Alfred. Seems Mathias as done quite a few song transcriptions by Gounod

4candles wrote:Here is a link to an 'Illustration on Faust' by French composer Joseph Grégoir:

My mistake - he's Belgian

Not sure if this guy was French, but Gallica has three fine scores by Ernst Meumann here:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/Search?ArianeWire ... nn&x=0&y=0

4c

4candles wrote:Does anyone have anything by French(?) composer Auguste Guéroult? Pupil of Méreaux (I think).
According to one Romantic/late-Romantic era critic, he was dubbed 'the French Schumann', so that has piqued my interest.

Thanks to the BIBLIOTECA DIGITAL HISPÁNICA/BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA, here is Auguste Guéroult's Scherzo Symphonique, Op. 15.

The Meumann pieces are a very nice find indeed, and I like the polonaise quite a bit. The Guéroult piece is the first one I've ever seen where the tempo changes are indexed in the PDF.

Thank you, 4candles.