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Re: Piano music inspired by insects
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:22 pm
by HTIEKFR
An astonishing and essential illustration of this is the Danish composer Rued Langgaard's INSECTARIUM for piano written in 1917
I'd very interested to see this score if anybody has it ...?
By the way here's another one :
http://imslp.org/wiki/Nocturne_%27Le_Gr ... alentin%29
The cricket
Re: Piano music inspired by insects
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:01 am
by Nogbert
HTIEKFR wrote:Another one by Victor Fumet
Les libellules ( dragonflies) - valse
Thanks very much for the Fumet! His name cropped up a couple of times in the thread "Cesar Franck and his circle", but this is the first work of his that I've seen posted in Pianophilia. Are any others available?
Jo
Re: Piano music inspired by insects
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:36 am
by fredbucket
Well, I suppose in honour of the Winter Olympics in Canada I have to upload this, which I learnt as a youngster many years ago, and still can't play ...
Lavallee - Op.18 Le Papillon - Etude de concert.pdf
Regards
Fred
Re: Piano music inspired by insects
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:35 am
by 4candles
Re: Piano music inspired by insects
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:02 pm
by Timtin
Le grillon = cricket. I didn't think it was played in France!
Maybe someone could start threads based on other types
of fauna such as amphibians and reptiles.
http://www.insectguide.net/
Re: Piano music inspired by insects
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:27 pm
by fhimpsl
In the spirit of this thread, I am posting an effort of my own entitled "Cricket's Lament." This was from a suite of four pieces, all dedicated to Billy Mayerl who of course wrote a piano suite of pieces entitled "Insect Oddities." It is the only one which I notated, using Encore and a good deal of help from my dear late friend, Jon Skinner. It is my attempt to emulate the Mayerl style. I hope you enjoy it. I posted this under the thread "21st Century Composers" here
viewtopic.php?f=44&p=4567#p4559
All best,
Frank Himpsl
Mode edit: I have replaced Frank's upload with the link to the other thread so as to avoid duplicated uploads. FB.
Re: Piano music inspired by insects
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:55 pm
by WCosand
Thank you for the lament. Looks intriguing!
Re: Piano music inspired by insects
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 11:57 am
by alfor
Some insects living here:
Castelnuovo op. 187 Sonatina Zoologica.pdf
Mod edit: It should be noted that this is not an Alfor scan
so TTTOS. FB.
Re: Piano music inspired by insects
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:00 pm
by HTIEKFR
Searching for new scores, found that one
It's for piano and voice but I believe it belongs to this post if not remove it.
"Chanson des cigales" music by Lucien Escoffier and poetry by Jean Aicard
ESCOFFIER - CHANSON DES CIGALES .pdf
Re: Piano music inspired by insects
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:39 pm
by ahinton
No one seems yet to have mentioned Scriabin's Tenth Sonata...
Best,
Alistair