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.. two more - enjoy ...
Best regards

Paul

Dear Paul,

thank you very much for all the "Niemänner"!
I am going to the Hamburg Town library next week. If you find some Niemann scores in the catalogue, which have not yet been posted, please let me know:

https://www.buecherhallen.de/alswww2.dl ... uickSearch

Thank you!

best wishes

alfor

Hi Paul, love the little Sonatine. It is much more chromatic than we usually find from Mr Niemann, and goes to show that he can write convincingly in this style when he chooses to. Thanks for sharing this, Paul, and the nice little ballade. And we have Alfor off to Hamburg, let's hope he can find more pieces to help fill in the holes in our growing Niemann library.

alfor wrote:Dear Paul,

thank you very much for all the "Niemänner"!
I am going to the Hamburg Town library next week. If you find some Niemann scores in the catalogue, which have not yet been posted, please let me know:

alfor

Dear alfor, thank you for this offer, but I think meanwhile I dug out all the Niemann scores that can be found in the major german libraries. I am still searching for the following ones:

10 Reisebilder Nr.3 still to be located
16 Weihnachten to be located
17 Aus Wald und Flur Hamburg, ordered
57 3 poetische Studien Missing Nr.1 & 3
58 Was den Kindern Freude macht - 24 Klavierstücke to be located
61 5 Tonbilder Nr.1-4 missing, to be located
63a Herbstträumereien to be located
70 Violinsonate G-Dur to be located
94 2 Klavierstücke Nr.1 missing
101 2 kleine Walzer Nr.1 missing
151 Ein Tag im Funkhaus to be located
156 Palmengarten to be located
157 Altmärkische Dorfbilder to be located
159 Herbst in Sanssouci to be located
164 Kammerkonzert Nr.2 to be located
166 Seestücke to be located
170 3 Tangoimpressionen to be located
171 Kleine Balletsuite to be located
172 Mein Breughelbuch to be located
173 Altenglische Walzer to be located
174 Die lustigen Chinesen to be located
175 Japanischer Wandbehang to be located
177 Aquarelle to be located
179 Mosaik to be located
180 Valse brillante - Weiße Rosen to be located
187 Variationen über 2 alte Weihnachtsweisen to be located
188 3 lyrische Klavierstücke to be located

So if you or anyone else here come across one or another of these I would be happy if they were shared here. I promise to keep the inter-library-loan department of my library busy.

Have a nice weekend!

Paul

I have the Niemann's piano scores - No opus- "Sturm und Drang", Konzertetude in Es, and "Auf dem fjord".
Please let me know if somebody is interesting, and I will be glad to post these scores.
ILU

it seems that the late works are the most difficult to get
did the publisher print just 4 or 5 copies for Niemann's friends???

anyway, here are some availabilities:

Vienna national library :
61 5 Tonbilder Nr.1-4 missing, to be located wien MS56957-4°. Mus

Florence National Library (very expensive)
57 3 poetische Studien Missing Nr.1 & 3 n.1 fi bnc

Bologna Accademia (iper expensive)
58 Was den Kindern Freude macht - 24 Klavierstücke to be located bologna acc fil

Be patient, I will get all 3 opuses from German libraries!!

Thanks for the op.118 Nr. 2 Variations, Paul, these play quite well. You have laid out a nice list for Alfor, and I know we all appreciate his work in locating scores! It's beginning to look like Pianophilia will have one of the most complete archives of Niemann's works to be found anywhere, so congratulations all posters.

Caprotti wrote:it seems that the late works are the most difficult to get
did the publisher print just 4 or 5 copies for Niemann's friends???

Caprotti, Niemann died in 1953, so his late opusses were published during WW II and after. In the last years of WW II the print run of new compositions in Germany certainly wasn't very high. And after the war when German composers tried to have something like "hour zero" Niemann was hopelessly outdated and oldfashioned. Furthermore in the first years after the war there was not a big market for new sheet music in Germany since the country first had to be rebuild. The money was needed for food instead. These may be the reasons for the late works being rare.

I just recieved a mail from Mr. Helzel the owner of http://www.romana-hamburg.de/Niemann.htm responding to my request for a CD and some missing Niemann scores.
As he writes in the worklist at the end of the Niemann autobiography edited by him, a lot of the later works seem to be unpublished manuscripts (opp. 151, 156, 157, 159, 164, 166, 170, 171,172,173,175,177, 179, 180 and 187). He does not have them.
But I found this for our german friends:
http://www.kug.ac.at/nc/kunst-wissensch ... mer]=14358
Ferruccio, klavierelch, ... do you have any chance to obtain a dissertation on Niemann written in 2008 in Graz. Perhaps Mrs. Stupnik has found some of these late manuscripts ...

All the best

Paul