Salon music

[Jean-Séb]

Maybe this already known from you, but I have just seen that the Bodleian Library has scanned a lot of salon music scores and they ask for public help for describing the scanned material.
http://www.whats-the-score.org/

[FW190]

Kohinoor, a polka by Oscar Mayo (who?).
So far as I Know Kohinoor (or Koh-i-Noor ~Mountain of Light) is the name of a famous Indian diamond. Stolen in 1850 by the British East India Company the gem is now a part of the British Crown Jewels.

Mayo.-.El-Kohinoor-Polka-(pno-Root-Edition-1871).pdf

[Phillip210]

I have very recently posted to IMSLP my scans of four pieces from Bohm's Op. 327:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Salon-Komposition ... ohm,_Carl)
This single opus is a collection of 78 pieces, which - if they are of an average length of 5 pages (conservative estimate), and 3.5 minutes duration (some are longer) would constitute some 400 pages of music taking about 5 hours to perform. As such this must be one of the biggest piano opuses pre-Sorabji.

Alas, even with my four pieces, and the two that were already on IMSLP, that makes only six, and I have never seen any of the other 72 pieces, a list of which is on the IMSLP page. If anyone has any of them (possibly in Bohm albums published by Lengnick) and would like to post them to IMSLP - or anywhere else where they can be found - I should be most grateful. I suspect that the opus number was supplied by Bohm's publisher Simrock and kept open while he supplied works for it over a period of time (the catalogue shown on the back of another work lists these 78 pieces plus a series of blank numbers running to 100!).

Apart from the pieces which members of this forum have kindly added, I note that IMSLP has recently acquired an American Bohm album which, as well as other pieces I had not seen by him, contains one or two more of the Op. 327 set. Maybe my 5 hour Bohm performance marathon is taking a step closer!

[musiclife217]

I have very recently posted to IMSLP my scans of four pieces from Bohm's Op. 327:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Salon-Komposition ... ohm,_Carl)
This single opus is a collection of 78 pieces, which - if they are of an average length of 5 pages (conservative estimate), and 3.5 minutes duration (some are longer) would constitute some 400 pages of music taking about 5 hours to perform. As such this must be one of the biggest piano opuses pre-Sorabji.

Alas, even with my four pieces, and the two that were already on IMSLP, that makes only six, and I have never seen any of the other 72 pieces, a list of which is on the IMSLP page. If anyone has any of them (possibly in Bohm albums published by Lengnick) and would like to post them to IMSLP - or anywhere else where they can be found - I should be most grateful. I suspect that the opus number was supplied by Bohm's publisher Simrock and kept open while he supplied works for it over a period of time (the catalogue shown on the back of another work lists these 78 pieces plus a series of blank numbers running to 100!).

Apart from the pieces which members of this forum have kindly added, I note that IMSLP has recently acquired an American Bohm album which, as well as other pieces I had not seen by him, contains one or two more of the Op. 327 set. Maybe my 5 hour Bohm performance marathon is taking a step closer!

I will see what I can do in this regard. I enjoy this type of music, as well as hearing you play it!

[musiclife217]

Does anyone have Ravina's - Op.80 - Chant du Moissonneur, Scène pittoresque ?? I can request it, but want to check here first, thanks!

[FW190]

Another Must Play Gem for your collection: The very worst Polka composed by Schlechter als schlecht (~Worse than bad) and published by S. Pearson (NY) in 1850.

Schlechter-als-schlecht.-.The-very-worst-Polka-(pno-Pearson-Edition-1850).pdf

[fleubis]

Thank you FW190. On the plus side, it really does sound like a polka. You really have to hand it to this publisher's marketing department. Just think how many copies they sold just on curiosity alone.

[musiclife217]

hello all - I am seeking a salon piece by Herman Wenzel - Op. 302 - O Golden Dream of Youth (alternately titled Beau reve de la jeunesse; o schoner, goldner jugendtraum; ungdomsdrommar)...

has anyone seen this or know of its whereabouts? sharing is always appreciated!

[Phillip210]

Does anyone have Ravina's - Op.80 - Chant du Moissonneur, Scène pittoresque ?? I can request it, but want to check here first, thanks!

It has just appeared on the BnF Gallica site, so is now available for download!

[Jim Faston]

Does anyone have Ravina's - Op.80 - Chant du Moissonneur, Scène pittoresque ?? I can request it, but want to check here first, thanks!

It has just appeared on the BnF Gallica site, so is now available for download!

Here's a B&W version of the BNF scans:

Ravina_Chant du moissonneur, Scène pittoresque pour piano, Op.80.pdf