Pianophilia

Alfor, I am grateful to see some pieces by Radie Britain......she is actually a composer I've met while she was in her 80's. Very glad to have these two pieces.

To complete the circle:
music from the dedicatee of Kurt Börner's Ballade op. 15

Richard RÖSSLER (1880-1962, German pianist & composer; performed the complete WTC in public,
for some chamber music of R. see sibley)
Vier kleine Klavierstücke op. 23
Siciliana (good! Reminiscent of Weismann)
Frühling, ja du bist's! (a "spring piece", like similar pieces by John Ireland or Hugo Wolf,
who immediately spring to my mind)
Traumbild
Fantasiestück (Schumann-study) Ernesto DRANGOSCH (1882-1925, Argentinian pianist & composer)
Fantasia (in forma d'un tempo di Sonata) op. 10
A bit academic; mainly of European descent anyway, south-american composers of this generation often in a somewhat naive way absorbed european music. So no Tango, no dance rhythms,
no south-american temperament here! Posted as an example for the piano style of this lesser known French composer:

Maurice DELANNOY
Quatre Mouvements:
Faubourien
Sylvestre
Triste
Enjoue
(composed 1921-24, post-Debussy, pre-"jeune-France")

Thank you Alfor, specially for the Delannoy and Drangosch. The Drangosch is interesting and there are pieces of him in imslp, including this Fantasie op. 10, if anyone is interested.

I scanned alot of Drangoschs work several years ago. And many of the smaller pieces are indeed tangos. I find Alberto Williams music to be a bit better and he used the interesting Rhythms from the Pampas, but also other rhythms that were native inspires. Some of the styles williams used were the Cielito, The Malambo, The Tango, The Zamba and many more.

Dear Igod82,

thanks for the info!

best regards

alfor

more

Zdenko FIBICH
Nalady, dojmy a upominsky.
Stimmungen, Eindrücke und Erinnerungen
Drtobne skladby / Kleine Stücke
pro / für Piano-Forte op. 44
Sort of musical diary - excellent for teaching purposes and sight-reading (Fibich: complete op. 47: http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index ... %2C+Zdenek)

Moriz ROSENTHAL
Prelude

Posted as an example for the piano style of this US-American composer (with hispanic background):

Ramiro CORTES
Suite for Piano
I. Sinfonia
II. Capriccio
III. Arioso Sentimantale
IV. Finale
(Stravinsky influence; recommended!) Zdenek FIBICH
Malerstudien op. 56
5 piano pieces after famous paintings
first edition (Urbanek) Frances ALLITSEN (British composer, 1848-1912, pseydonym of Mary Bumpus?)
Nocturne
(you need not be ashamed if you will love this somewhat naive piece of music - reminiscent
of Maria Szymanowska and John Field, but not amateurish, see for example the g flat pedal point page 4)

alfor wrote:Frances ALLITSEN (British composer, 1848-1912, pseydonym of Mary Bumpus?)

Correct. From Grove:

Allitsen [Bumpus], (Mary) Frances

(b London, 30 Dec 1848; d London, 30 Sept 1912). English composer. She came from a family of well-known booksellers who disapproved of her taking up music as a career. In her thirties, with the support of Thomas Weist-Hill, she eventually studied composition with Henry Gadsby at the Guildhall School of Music, where she was a Corporation Exhibitioner. She composed several instrumental and orchestral works as a student and from 1880 occasionally appeared as a singer, but she was best known as a songwriter. She used the pseudonym Frances Allitsen. Her record of financial transactions (GB-Lbl), kept between 1885 and 1896, shows the increasing profitability of her work. This notebook also includes a brief diary from 1911.

Allitsen’s songs range from immensely popular patriotic and religious songs, such as There’s a Land (1896), widely sung by Clara Butt during the Boer War, and The Lord is my Light (1897), recorded by John McCormack in 1917, to ardent, harmonically rich love songs, such as her Six Songs (1889) or King and Slave (1892). Several songs are rather more subtle and complex, including her eight Heine settings (published by Robert Cocks in ‘Series of Artistic Songs’, 1892), the cycle Four Songs from ‘A Lute of Jade’ (1910) and Unto Thy Heart (1888), in which the voice is characteristically accompanied by an additional instrument as well as the piano. Towards the end of her life Allitsen turned to dramatic music, producing the scena Cleopatra (1904), written for Butt, and For the Queen (1911), a large-scale work exploring many of the same concerns as her romantic opera Bindra the Minstrel (1912), which, despite negotiations with German opera houses, remained unperformed at Allitsen’s death.

Regards
Fred

Thank you, Fred, for the info!

Musik der Zeit
a six-volume anthology from the Universal-Edition catalogue (probably issued late 1920s)
Band I*:
Foerster, Barwinskyj, Braunfels, N. Tcherepnine, Dobrowen, Friedman, Kosa,
Rachmaninoff, Szymanowski, Springer, Strauss, Weinberger, Marx Ignaz BRÜLL
Idylle op. 37 No. 2 (makes a good trill & arpeggio study) *there is a Greek mafia of bookbinders - all descendants of the PROKRUSTES family - who apparently had this volume in their hands

Dear Alfor,

"Musik der Zeit" ....what a wonderful collection of early 20th century piano works! I had no idea that the Universal Edition ever put out a compilation such as this. Thanks so much for the posting...I'll be happily spending this Sunday evening at the piano with this music. (Do you perhaps have the other volumes in the series? )

Vielen Dank!

Frank

fhimpsl wrote:Dear Alfor,

"Musik der Zeit" ....what a wonderful collection of early 20th century piano works! I had no idea that the Universal Edition ever put out a compilation such as this. Thanks so much for the posting...I'll be happily spending this Sunday evening at the piano with this music. (Do you perhaps have the other volumes in the series? )

Vielen Dank!

Frank

Dear Frank,

in fact I happen to have all 6 volumes and will of course post all of them!

best regards

alfor (a.k.a. Alfred)