Pianophilia

And here the Toccata in d minor of Paul Wittgenstein (not my scan) ,the younger brother of the philosopher Ludwig Wttgenstein, for whom among others Franz Schmidt, Korngold, Hindemith, Ravel, Prokovief and Britten composed piano works for the left hand alone.
Wittgenstein's family was called the Krupps of Austria , what means, that they were extraordinary rich, so Paul could spend a lot of money :

Korngold (1923) $3000
Strauss - Parergon (1925) $25000 (who has been well known for his greediness)
Ravel (1930) $6000
Prokofiev (1931) $5000
Britten (1941) $700 -which seems to have been nearly half of Britten's total income in 1941

I found the information about the payment here :
http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.com/ ... -cash.html

best regards , diros

Maikapar-Toccatina Op8 (nms) Oren

Dear Friends,
quite suddenly I found on this site a bunch of unknown Toccatas to me.
Here is the site ,alot of music for children too:

http://igraj-poj.narod.ru/NEW.html/

and here are Toccatas Regards to all

Biljana


Moderator Edit
I have removed the Shchedrin & Eshpai Toccatas because those composers are still alive. Those works are still available through the link posted above. Members really ought to be more careful about this kind of thing. Just because a work is available elsewhere does NOT mean the work can be posted here. Russia was very slow at regulating digital copyright - I'm not sure they have yet caught up.

dear Biljana,

thank you very much for those brilliant toccatas and the link !!

Ferruccio wrote:dear Biljana,

thank you very much for those brilliant toccatas and the link !!

I might have guessed that Toccata King Ferruccio would be the first to see this post, thanks from me too for the superb link to the Russian site, lots of interesting things there not least trying to work out the composers names from the cyrillic, not always straightforward.
regards
Brian

Biljana wrote:Dear Friends,
quite suddenly I found on this site a bunch of unknown Toccatas to me.
Here is the site ,alot of music for children too:

http://igraj-poj.narod.ru/NEW.html/

and here are Toccatas

Regards to all

Biljana


Moderator Edit
I have removed the Shchedrin & Eshpai Toccatas because those composers are still alive. Those works are still available through the link posted above. Members really ought to be more careful about this kind of thing. Just because a work is available elsewhere does NOT mean the work can be posted here. Russia was very slow at regulating digital copyright - I'm not sure they have yet caught up.

My apologies to the moderators and owner of this site.
I really did not know .
It will not happen again


Biljana

One more Toccata
Hermann Hugo-Toccata Gotica op.16 Oren

oren segev wrote:One more Toccata
Hermann Hugo-Toccata Gotica op.16
Oren

Thanks, Oren ! Very kind of you

Ferruccio wrote:

oren segev wrote:One more Toccata
Hermann Hugo-Toccata Gotica op.16
Oren

Thanks, Oren ! Very kind of you

You are welcome Ferruccio
It is not metter of "kind" or "not kind"
Thats the reason for us to be members on that forum
But anyway nice reply
Best Regards
Oren

Looks as if the Hugo. H. is my scan!!? At least Ferruccio - who commented on this file previously - should remember!!!