Pianophilia

yes maybe but ....
"so little time and so much to play"....

... [ paraphrasing WC of course]

better daily practicing on Chopin or Blanchet....? just musing and wondering here ...

JF

4candles wrote:

Caprotti wrote:

fredbucket wrote:
Au Jardin du vieux Serail
Op. 7 Five Etudes
Op. 13 Theme and Variations
Op. 15 No. 1 Etude de Concert
Op. 15 No. 3 Polonaise
Op. 15 No. 4 Scherzo
Op. 18 Turquie
Op. 19 Neuf Etudes de Concert
Op. 22 Variations on a theme by Mendelssohn
Op. 27 No3 Impromptu
Op. 28 Tocsin, Passacaglia
Op. 29 Ballade No. 1
Op. 30 Ballade No. 2
Op. 32 Ballade No. 3
Op. 35 Three Ecossaises
Op. 41 Sixty-Four Preludes
Op. 41b Exercises for the left hand
Op. 44 Two Pieces
Op. 45 Rhapsodie turque
Op. 47 Divertimento
Op. 50 Le Pont des Caravanes (Smyrne)
Op. 53 Etudes for the left hand alone
Op. 55 Huit Etudes de concert
Op.108 Sonata
Saltarello

Regards
Fred

I can add :
op.09 Polonaise
op.11 Polonaise
op.14 Concertstuck
op.42 Deux Etudes
op.52 Six Etudes polyrythmiques
op.54 Exercices en forme musicale
op.70 Poème
op.76 n.4 Fileuse
op.78 n.1 Allegro
op.78 n.2 Agitato
op.82 n.1 Lento sostenuto
op.93 2 Toccatine
op.106 Etudes
op.107 n.1 Pastorale
op.107 n.2 Toccata

more filling in of Blanchet's works list

op. 10 14 Preludes
op. 24 2 Barcarolles
op. 25 3 Serenades
op. 26 3 Preludes
op. 27 1 and 2: Prelude
op. 31 4 Etudes
op. 40 Scherzo
op. 43 13 Etudes Contrapuntiques
op. 51 Rhapsodie Turque
op. 57 Ballade pour deux pianos
op. 109. unpublished, unedited. Cent etudes.

sans opus:
tarantelle (1920)
dix nouvelles etudes
dix pieces pur piano, etude en la mineur, et exercise
etudes en la mineur et sol majeur
variations sur un psaume
mazurka
trois petits preludes
saltarelle
fugue et toccata symetrique


Most of the unpublished works are in the inventory of the Fonds musical Emile-Robert Blanchet, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire, Lausanne. The "Cent Etudes" is mentioned in a brief biography by the same organization, who states:

"Cent études opus 109, qui sont considérées par l’auteur comme son
ouvrage technique capital et sont restés inédites. (Composées entre
1939 et 1942). Avec ces études, il va encore plus loin dans la recherche
de deux plans sonores différents dans une seule main."

It seems no-one has posted the Op.43 Etudes, so here is my copy, I won't say enjoy unless you really are such masochists.
regards
Brian

How wonderful to have Blanchet's Op.43 Etudes. This is another wonderful collection of highly original pieces that Blanchet seemingly turned out at will. The 10th etude is really outstanding IMHO.

HullandHellandHalifax wrote:It seems no-one has posted the Op.43 Etudes, so here is my copy, I won't say enjoy unless you really are such masochists.
regards
Brian

Blanchet Op.43 Treize Etudes Contrapuntiques.pdf

Thanks ever so much for these!
Now if I could only get a few minutes to sit down and try some of them out (not that I could play them anyway!)...

Many thanks for those studies.

http://biblio.hemu-cl.ch/fonds_anciens/ has four short pieces in pdf format available for download (there are also mp3s for each respective piece). They are listed as follows:

étude, op. 69 no. 1
suite, op. 54 no. 1
prélude, op. 54 no. 7
lento, op. 54 no. 9

op. 54 is not the Exercises du Forme Musicale but 54b, a "Suite Romantique".


Also on the page is a pdf file called "description du fonds" which lists the title and dedication of all known Blanchet compositions, published and unpublished.

Roncesvalles wrote:Many thanks for those studies.

http://biblio.hemu-cl.ch/fonds_anciens/ has four short pieces in pdf format available for download (there are also mp3s for each respective piece). They are listed as follows:

étude, op. 69 no. 1
suite, op. 54 no. 1
prélude, op. 54 no. 7
lento, op. 54 no. 9

op. 54 is not the Exercises du Forme Musicale but 54b, a "Suite Romantique".


Also on the page is a pdf file called "description du fonds" which lists the title and dedication of all known Blanchet compositions, published and unpublished.

Thank your for this! A lot of very valuable infos on Blanchet here. It appears we now know where a huge depository of Blanchet pieces resides - Conservatoire de Musique de Lausanne. It also looks like the conservatorie is getting in the publishing game with crisp new editions. I hope they continue to mine the vast resources at their disposal and release more of Blanchet's marvelous compositions.

All thanks for these scores should go to Roncesvalles, who managed to obtain from a very helpful Haute Ecole de Musique et Conservatoire de Lausanne, and Parag who cleaned and organised the scores. I was merely the messenger boy !!

An excellent addition to our growing knowledge of Blanchet's piano music, and hats-off to Roncesvalles for trackng these down and requesting copies of the scores. We think the annotations may be in the composer's hand, since Lausanne holds a fair number of scores and related items to the composer.

Op 10 Fourteen Preludes Op 24 Deux Barcarolles Op 25 Trois Serenades [Nos 1 & 3 only] Malcolm [on behalf of Roncesvalles & Parag]

This is really a giant post!! Thank you so much Malcolm, Parag and specially Roncesvalles!

Dear Malcolm, Parag and Roncesvalles,

Thank you so much for this INCREDIBLE influx of scores by the genius Blanchet! I'm really exicted by the Preludes, but everything looks to be at his highest-of-the-high standard of piano writing. Just superb! Thanks a million.

All Best,

Frank