Alfor's Rarities

[arglmann]

There are two problems when doing business with the SBB:
First is you have to be extremely patient. I ordered a couple of scores (copies) more than two months ago via interlibrary loan and am still waiting to get a message let alone the copies.
Second they strictly stick to the copyright terms which is especially unfavorable for german customers.

Dear Alfor,
through interlibrary loan there might be a problem.
If you are at the BSB in person, as I was the other day, wanting to copy a score from Ernst Toch, dated 1975, do this:
I made the mistake and ordered it to the "Musiklesesaal", where copying is not allowed. I complained a bit to the woman at the desk about this detail.
That was when she pointed out to me to next time order the copyrighted score to the "Allgemeiner Lesesaal", where actually
"nobody cares for what you copy". Her own words. So much for copyright...

If someone needs ideas for SBB SPK in Berlin, just ask me

[alfor]

There are two problems when doing business with the SBB:
First is you have to be extremely patient. I ordered a couple of scores (copies) more than two months ago via interlibrary loan and am still waiting to get a message let alone the copies.
Second they strictly stick to the copyright terms which is especially unfavorable for german customers.

Dear Alfor,
through interlibrary loan there might be a problem.
If you are at the BSB in person, as I was the other day, wanting to copy a score from Ernst Toch, dated 1975, do this:
I made the mistake and ordered it to the "Musiklesesaal", where copying is not allowed. I complained a bit to the woman at the desk about this detail.
That was when she pointed out to me to next time order the copyrighted score to the "Allgemeiner Lesesaal", where actually
"nobody cares for what you copy". Her own words. So much for copyright...

If someone needs ideas for SBB SPK in Berlin, just ask me

Dear arglmann,

thank you very much for this valuable hint!! Next time when I am in Berlin, I'll know what to do!!

[alfor]

Gottfried RÜDINGER (German composer, 1886-1946. Studied with Reger from 1907-09)
Tagebuchblätter
Sechs kleine Stücke für Klavier zu zwei Händen op. 52

Rüdinger Tagebuchblätter op.52.pdf

Wonderful miniatures in a most serene post-Reger style. Not for the concert hall but ideally suited
for your daily hour of contemplation! Very similar in style to his classmate Joseph Haas.

For more Rüdinger please try a pianophilia search!

Looks as if the moderators are always with us...

[4candles]

Thanks for these interesting miniatures alfor!

[arglmann]

There are two problems when doing business with the SBB:
First is you have to be extremely patient. I ordered a couple of scores (copies) more than two months ago via interlibrary loan and am still waiting to get a message let alone the copies.
Second they strictly stick to the copyright terms which is especially unfavorable for german customers.

Dear Alfor,
through interlibrary loan there might be a problem.
If you are at the BSB in person, as I was the other day, wanting to copy a score from Ernst Toch, dated 1975, do this:
I made the mistake and ordered it to the "Musiklesesaal", where copying is not allowed. I complained a bit to the woman at the desk about this detail.
That was when she pointed out to me to next time order the copyrighted score to the "Allgemeiner Lesesaal", where actually
"nobody cares for what you copy". Her own words. So much for copyright...

If someone needs ideas for SBB SPK in Berlin, just ask me

Dear arglmann,

thank you very much for this valuable hint!! Next time when I am in Berlin, I'll know what to do!!

Dear alfor, these hints were for the BSB in Munich.
For the SBB in Berlin - I didn't try to order it into the Allg. Lesesaal, but maybe it is possible.

I heard from a guy who heard it from another guy, the following:
He took a copyr****ed, but copy-able book down to the copy machines, where the costs for one single copy are very high.
On his way there he would eventually stop behind a big old pillar and *whoops* accidentally drop the book on his camera.

Of course that's only what I've heard...

Arglmann

[alfor]

Dear alfor, these hints were for the BSB in Munich

Ok. I thought you were refering to the SBB...chaos emerges when using too many abbreviations .

[alfor]

Posted as an example of the piano style of this well-known* (East)-German composer:

Ernst Hermann MEYER
Vier Klavierstücke (out-of-print)
I. Intermezzo lirico
II. Capriccio scherzando
III. Memories
IV. Toccata fugata

Meyer, E.H. 4 Klavierstücke.pdf

All four pieces have their merits, but I especially like the
perfectly natural flow of the first piece (the easiest of the set).

*Wrote an excellent violin concerto, dedicated to and recorded by "King David" Oistrakh.

[fleubis]

Thanks for the Meyer pieces, Alfor. I find this composers harmonic style very hard to "pigeon hole" as it were, but he has many interesting ideas in these pieces. I really hate it that here is yet another well-known composer that I've never heard off, and if it we're for the Internet and your postings, many of us here on the other side of the pond would never have heard of him either. But this music is getting some exposure now, finally, and I know we all appreciate the seeming endless flow of new discoveries you unearth.

[alfor]

Thanks for the Meyer pieces, Alfor. I find this composers harmonic style very hard to "pigeon hole" as it were, but he has many interesting ideas in these pieces. I really hate it that here is yet another well-known composer that I've never heard of...

Dear fleubis,

there is quite a lot of E. H. Meyer on http://www.youtube.com!

The only piano scores in print today are "Präludium für Dmitri Schostakowitsch" and "Toccata appasionata".

Best regards

alfor

[alfor]

Michalowsky days (except Saturday!):

Aleksander MICHALOWSKI (eminent Polish pianist, teacher and composer; http://bn.org.pl/chopin/index.php/en/pianists/bio/19)
Berceuse (Kolysanka) op. 1
Romance op. 10

Michalowski Berceuse op.1, Romance op.10.pdf

Both pieces once again exhibit the typical fine, well-sounding piano writing which came so naturally to both Russians and Poles of this generation. Beginning of op. 1 reminiscent of...is it Mussorgsky's Nursery song cycle??