Alfor's Rarities

[fleubis]

Dear Frank, dear fleubis,

you are welcome! I always appreciate comments on the music posted!

All the best
Herzliche Grüße

alfor

P.S. Regarding my recent scans: I assume that only a very small minority of pianophilians owns a DIN A3 printer, so I decided to optimize my recent scans for the DIN A4 format. The original Tausig scores measure 27 by 34 centimeters (!) - the actual text being about 23 by 30 (Din A4 = 21 by 29.7 cms!). So by reducing to DIN A4 some grace notes get out a bit small.***
As an alternative I could optimize my scans of large scores to DIN A3 - you then would have to choose an appropriate reduction percentage by yourself. But - see above - I doubt whether this would make much sense!

*** Your printer should be able to do "borderless printing" (with some printers you can choose this as an option) and in case my scans are a bit on the dark side, you should adjust your printers degree of lightness appropriately.

Dear Alfor,

I must confess that I find the 8.5" X ll" (21.59cm X 27.94cm - A4) to be just too darn small to read. Over here in the U.S. the printed music standard for piano is usually 9" X 12" (22.86cm X 30.48cm). And like most people on this side of the pond, my laser printer only prints out A4, so I invested in a relatively inexpensive large format inkjet printer which allows me to expand all the PDF files to the size I want which is the 9" X 12" size. I even have to get my paper cut to this size since it is not widely available, and getting them spiral bound is yet another problem, I've had to deal with, but I do get music that I can easily read on the piano desk. There is quite a bit of differentiation regarding all these paper sizes too, look here:

http://www.papersizes.org/a-paper-sizes.htm

I suggest that your reduction to A4 poses no problems for most people with your 600 dpi scans and they are printing perfectly at this expanded dimension. At any rate, many printers driver software allow the expansion or reduction of a PDF page to fit a given paper size.

[alfor]

dedicated to Sir M. (try No. III: Quasi Walzer):

Rudolph (Rudolf?) BARTH (1847-1896?)
Not to be mixed up with german violinist and composer Richard Barth, 1850-1923.
Any info on Rudolph most welcome!
Suite op. 5 (deeply rooted in 19th century romantic piano style;
haunted by the spirits of Schumann and - to a much lesser extent - Brahms)

Barth Suite op.5.pdf

[thalbergmad]

probably the left-handed german violinist and composer

I find this incredible, but it appears he was a left handed violinist.

Many years ago I begged a violin teacher to teach me left handed, but he just laughed and told me nobody had ever done this before. For me, it was so natural to pick up a violin with my right hand and bow with my left, that I could not consider playing it correctly. I don't know how easy it is to "convert" a violin, but i assume it can be done.

I guess lefties have it a little easier nowadays. I had little trouble finding a left handed guitar and even less finding a left handed 5 string banjo. I have even seen a left handed sitar and left handed lute on e bay. I am now going to make some sandwiches using my left handed bread knife.

Thanks for the scan as well old chap.

Thal

[Allan]

I don't know how easy it is to "convert" a violin, but i assume it can be done.

Can't you just reverse the string thicknesses, tuning pegs, and tuning? Or am I being naive, and looking at it too simplistically?

[thalbergmad]

I have really no idea old chap. I was thinking the bridge would need to be reversed as well.

We need a violinist.

Thal

[Dani_area_51]

Can anybody say some kind of way to optimize pdf? I converted some tiff files ( image files ) to pdf, but the size of the pdf is always over 30 mb, and they only have 4 to 5 pages, so if anyone can help I would say thanks . Sorry to post this here, but since there were some posts before me about scans...

[alfor]

Rudolph BARTH (probably the left-handed german violinist and composer, 1847-1896.
Any further info welcome!)

SORRY!!! I mistook him for RICHARD Barth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barth

[alfor]

Für jeden (Geschmack) etwas:

Alexander GLAZUNOV
Valse de Salon op. 43 (ps600; possibly his finest piano waltz)

Glazunov Valse de Salon op.43.pdf

Anton BRUCKNER
Andante aus der nachgelassenen Symphonie in f moll (1863), arr. by Cyrill Hynais (ps600)

Bruckner Andante.pdf

Percy GRAINGER
American Folk-Music settings: Spoon River (ps600)

Grainger Spoon River.pdf

[alfor]

Samuil M. MAYKAPAR
Poeme en six strophes pour piano op. 17 (ps600)
apart from children pieces M. wrote a couple of more demanding pieces "for adults"

Maykapar Poeme op.17.pdf.rar

Alexander SCRIABIN
Prelude for the left hand (ps600)
I very much appreciate the PWM series "fortepianowe miniatury"
(excellent fingering and often good hints for interpretation)
has been transferred to a special topic:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=988&p=27517&hilit= ... nte#p27517

[alfor]

Samuil M. MAYKAPAR
Variations phantastiques sur un Andante Original en mi majeur op. 12 (ps600**)

Maykapar Variations phantastiques op.12.pdf

Posted as an example for the piano works of this rarely ever performed french composer:
Henri TOMASI
Tarantelle (ps600**)

Tomasi Tarantelle.pdf