Alfor's Rarities

[Allan]

Thank you, Alfor, for the Friedman. I've seen his name and photo at the back of several Palmgrem scores, in the advertising pages, and have been curious about his work.

[fleubis]

Happy finds here, Alfor. I first became aware of the half-pedal several decades ago thanks to Friedman editions not knowing then what an excellent composer he was, so it is a real delight to encounter these very high quality original compositions.

[WCosand]

Thanks for the Friedmann!

[alfor]

Happy finds here, Alfor. I first became aware of the half-pedal several decades ago thanks to Friedman editions ...

I can strongly recommend the following books on the subject:

Karl Ulrich SCHNABEL (son of Arthur)
Modern Technique of the Pedal (has also been published in German)
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-technique- ... B0006E3T94

Joseph BANOWETZ
The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-technique- ... B0006E3T94

[alfor]

Ignaz FRIEDMAN
Vignettes op. 76
8 petits morceaux pour le piano

Friedman Vignettes op.76.pdf

Moriz ROSENTHAL (eminent piano virtuoso although IMHO his pianistic musicianship
may be a bit doubtful, taken his late recording of Chopin's Sonata op. 58 as reference.
Composed much less than Friedman; some of his compositions display a pianistic and harmonic
refinement reminiscent of Godowsky, others are nice salon trifles.)
Zehn Charakterstücke
Refined Miniatures with an extended virtuoso finale.

Rosenthal 10 Charakterstücke.pdf

[Dani_area_51]

Ignaz FRIEDMAN
Vignettes op. 76
8 petits morceaux pour le piano

Friedman Vignettes op.76.pdf

Moriz ROSENTHAL (eminent piano virtuoso although IMHO his pianistic musicianship
may be a bit doubtful, taken his late recording of Chopin's Sonata op. 58 as reference.
Composed much less than Friedman; some of his compositions display a pianistic and harmonic
refinement reminiscent of Godowsky, others are nice salon trifles.)
Zehn Charakterstücke
Refined Miniatures with an extended virtuoso finale.

Rosenthal 10 Charakterstücke.pdf

Thank you, Alfor. More Friedman is very welcome and Rosenthal may be worthwile too.

[mballan]

Alfor wrote "Ignaz (Ignazy) FRIEDMAN (1882-1948)
Like many other musicians of his generation he was much admired and praised
in the earlier years of his career, while the same critics in later years critizised his overly
eccentric and then somewhat old-fashioned style of piano playing.
As a composer he stands in the middle between Poldini and Godowsky. He preferred the short forms
and many of his works have a distinctly Viennese flavour. Many are of a considerable quality
(indeed much better than Poldini - sorry, Sir M.) and should not be regarded as mere salon music"

Actual Alfred I quite agree with you, and rate Friedman much more than Poldini [although he did write a few gems]. I do have Friedman down on my list as one of my potential "Composer of the Month" since I have a fairly complete collection of his works, but please post away and I can always fill some gaps later when I can find time to scan my Friedman.

Belated thanks for the recent Wieniawski..........one of the few of his scores I was missing, so I am very grateful to you for posting the Op 46.

Malcolm

[alfor]

...I do have Friedman down on my list as one of my potential "Composer of the Month" since I have a fairly complete collection of his works, but please post away and I can always fill some gaps later when I can find time to scan my Friedman.
Malcolm

Dear Malcolm.

you are welcome! Also my somewhat belated thanks for your recent postings - especially for the very rare Aizberg** scores!!
I will post the Friedman scores which I recently have borrowed (far from complete; I myself only own the Sonatina, a Friedman-Album and some transcriptions). Although being somewhat of a score-junkie, I try hard to select only the (musically) better ones.

all best

alfor (..red)

**when searching in German library catalogues, you need a more than basic linguistic knowledge:
for Aizberg search "Ajsberg"
for Cui search "Kjui"
for Shostakovich search "Sostakovic"
and so on...

P.S. From more thorough observation I might describe the influences in Friedman's compositions as 1) Chopin 2) Polish folk-idiom 3) the aforementioned Viennese "Fin de siecle" style.

[alfor]

More
Ignaz FRIEDMAN
Polnische Lyrik
Erste Folge op. 53
Zweite Folge op. 60
Dritte Folge op. 72

Friedman Ponische Lyrik.pdf

Another part-time composer:
Max FIEDLER (1859-1939; mainly conductor, best known as an eminent Brahms performer;
recorded the 2nd PC with Elly Ney; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Fiedler)
Fantasiestück op. 18 (solid 19th century music in a warmly felt Schumann-Brahms idiom)

Fiedler Fantasiestück op.18.pdf

[alfor]

Moriz ROSENTHAL
Papillons (charming double-note study; nice color cover)

Rosenthal Papillons.pdf

Romanze (G-Dur)

Rosenthal Romanze.pdf

Max FIEDLER
Fünf Clavierstücke op. 2

Fiedler 5 Clavierstücke op.2.pdf