Pianophilia

Sibley has just posted Kessler's Op.51 Etudes Rhapsodiques:

https://urresearch.rochester.edu/instit ... onNumber=1

I'm blown away by the first etudes: right hand octave glissando! They sure had bigger hands and/or different pianos back then. Anyway, nice to have the entire set thanks to Sibley.

zardash wrote:Hi all! I'm looking for studies in repeated notes. Anyone have any ideas?

J.F. Petri's Tremolo Etude has repeated notes in fours, for both hands.

(I searched for when it was published and if it is available commercially but couldn't find anything, except that 'you know who' sells it. So I hope it's OK.)

TTTKPWSTS

Not Egon as I had thought. Thanks Walter for the correction.


jeremy

Thank you very much for the interesting score!
You are confusing two different Petris. J. F. Petri was publishing compositions forty years before
Egon was born.

Thank you, Jeremy, for the most interesting Petri Tremolo Etude. Indeed, there are plenty of four-note repeated patterns to work with in this etude to keep both hands busy. Never seen anything like it!

fleubis wrote:Thank you, Jeremy, for the most interesting Petri Tremolo Etude. Indeed, there are plenty of four-note repeated patterns to work with in this etude to keep both hands busy. Never seen anything like it!

But would you say it is petrifying?

rob wrote:But would you say it is petrifying?

I think you'll get a stony-faced response from most people on that one...

rob wrote:

fleubis wrote:Thank you, Jeremy, for the most interesting Petri Tremolo Etude. Indeed, there are plenty of four-note repeated patterns to work with in this etude to keep both hands busy. Never seen anything like it!

But would you say it is petrifying?

<< ouch! >>

WCosand wrote:Thank you very much for the interesting score!
You are confusing two different Petris. J. F. Petri was publishing compositions forty years before
Egon was born.

Thanks Walter.

I wondered why there was nothing of the 20th Century in this Etude.


jeremy

Transferring part of another request from the French Music thread, does anyone have, or know where they might find, the 12 Études by Victor Émile Esprit Forgues? According to Fétis, these were entitled 'Les Pathétiques' and were published by Flaxland in Paris.

From my experience Fétis must be taken with caution. I can't verify online the catalogue of the French National Library, but there are only a few works by Forgues in the main european libraries and no cycles of 12 Etudes. Pazdirek is never complete, but Hofmeister database doesn't quote any other works by F. apart those already known. btw, I found that a 'Scherzo' that was circulating is the Etude stated as op.15.

Anyone form Paris who could go there and search for F. in the index cards?