Alfor's Rarities

[Dani_area_51]

To Daniel, with compliments

Posted as an example of the early piano style of an interesting but rarely played Austrian composer:

Egon WELLESZ
Epigramme op. 17

Wellesz Epigramme op.17.pdf

audio:
Frank Merrick plays Bax Sonata No. 1

I do not care so much about his nationality, but it's really sad, why pianists do not pay attention to his compositions. Always grateful to your efforts Alfor, you were able to make me have a folder with a size near 30 Gigabytes of music scores, so thank you so much...Also, Malcolm,Peter,Frank,Timtin and others contributed to that

[alfor]

I prefer to think of him as an Austrian-born British composer,
just as I like to think of Handel, Clementi, and lots of other
composers as British, or more specifically, English, even though
they weren't necessarily born here.

A horse, living for about 52 years in "horseland" and then living for the remaining 36 years in a cowshed (sorry, not meant literally) - is it a cow or still a horse??
(I would not like either the idea of giving thanks to a certain A.H. for bestowing a couple of fine composer on the English people!)

[4candles]

A horse, living for about 52 years in "horseland" and then living for the remaining 36 years in a cowshed (sorry, not meant literally) - is it a cow or still a horse??
(I would not like the idea of giving thanks to a certain A.H. for bestowing a couple of fine composer on the English people!)

[Timtin]

I prefer to think of him as an Austrian-born British composer,
just as I like to think of Handel, Clementi, and lots of other
composers as British, or more specifically, English, even though
they weren't necessarily born here.

A horse, living for about 52 years in "horseland" and then living for the remaining 36 years in a cowshed (sorry, not meant literally) - is it a cow or still a horse??
(I would not like either the idea of giving thanks to a certain A.H. for bestowing a couple of fine composer on the English people!)

Unfortunately, the 'horse' in question would almost certainly have been destroyed before
it had the chance to die of old age, if it had chosen to stay in 'horseland', and not to
transfer (very wisely, as it turned out) to the 'cowshed' and become a 'cow' in 1938!
Interestingly also, the animal in question chose not to transfer back to 'horseland'
after 1945, when it would have been safe to do so.

To quote Wikipedia:-
"Egon Joseph Wellesz (21 October 1885 – 9 November 1974) was an Austrian-born British
composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of ..."

Btw, congratulations to Alfor for reaching 1500 posts - perhaps your status should
now be changed to something like Pianosadomasochist!

[fredbucket]

Btw, congratulations to Alfor for reaching 1500 posts - perhaps your status should
now be changed to something like Pianosadomasochist!

That will only occur after he (or anyone else) has reached one mole of posts.

Regards
Fred

[alfor]

alternative scan:

Vincent D'INDY
Poeme des Montagnes
Suite pour Piano op. 15

d'Indy Poeme des Montagnes op.15.pdf

Unfortunately, the 'horse' in question would almost certainly have been destroyed before
it had the chance to die of old age, if it had chosen to stay in 'horseland', and not to
transfer (very wisely, as it turned out) to the 'cowshed' and become a 'cow' in 1938!

You are certainly right! (And please keep always in mind, that I am a professing Anglophile )

[alfor]

Btw, congratulations to Alfor for reaching 1500 posts - perhaps your status should
now be changed to something like Pianosadomasochist!

That will only occur after he (or anyone else) has reached one mole of posts.

Regards
Fred

Too bad! I was very much looking forward to becoming the first Count Sacher-Masoch of the piano !!

[alfor]

Nikolai MEDTNER
Trois Pièces pour Piano op. 31
No. 1. Improvisation
No. 2. Marche funebre
No. 3 Conte (Märchen)

Medtner Trois Pièces op.31.pdf

First edition, published in 1922 by ÉDITION RUSSE DE MUSIQUE (RUSSISCHER MUSIKVERLAG G.M.B.H.)
Edited by a certain F. H. Schneider.

[alfor]

Old German Christmas Carols:

Posted as an example of the piano style of this interesting German composer, who was better known as a teacher and author of a best-selling Harmonielehre (I previously posted his fine Sonate in e):

Wilhelm MALER (1902-1976; German composer and teacher, pupil of Grabner, Haas, Jarnach)
Drei kleine Klavierstücke über alte Weihnachtslieder

Maler 3 kleine Klavierstücke.pdf

[Phillip210]

Edward ELGAR
Three Bavarian Dances for the piano op. 27 (taken from choral suite "From the Bavarian Highlands")

Elgar 3 Bavarian Dances op.27.pdf

Splendid isolation: Specific British charm and most typically Elgarian.

Thank-you, thank-you!

No indication on the score who the arranger was. Are we to assume the composer or someone 'in-house'?

The answer may lie in the liner notes to the CD - David Owen Norris plays Elgar, Volume 1, Elgar Editions EECD002 (which I have not seen). However, the Music-Web review: http://www.musicweb-international.com/c ... Norris.htm suggests that the arrangement is by Elgar himself. The Gramophone, reviewing the disk, remarked that the transcription works well.