Composed by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). This edition: 2 copies required. Duet or Duo; Masterworks; Piano Duo (2 Pianos, 4 Hands); Solo Small Ensembles. Kalmus Edition. Form: Concerto. Masterwork; Romantic. Book. 64 pages. Kalmus Classic Edition #00-K03487. Published by Kalmus Classic Edition

Piano/harpsichord and orchestra (solo: pno - 2(picc).2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp - str)

SKU: BR.PB-15164-07

Urtext. Composed by Edvard Grieg. Edited by E.-G. Heinemann. Orchestra; Softbound. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). Solo concerto; Romantic. Study Score. 108 pages. Duration 30'. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB 15164-07. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-15164-07).

ISBN 9790004215906. 6.5 x 9 inches.

The piano concerto in a minor stands out in Edvard Grieg's oeuvre. Besides this famous concerto, he composed only a few other large orchestral works. Because of its popularity even in Grieg's lifetime, it was often performed, not least by the composer himself. So it is not surprising that Grieg made many changes to the score up to 1907. But at the same time, the concerto's size, form and substance remained completely unaltered. Interventions in the piano part basically involved subtleties of nuance, and only a very few places in the music text were altered. The situation was different with the orchestration. Here Grieg was keen to experiment and kept filing away at the orchestra sound right up to the last. Melodies were moved to other instruments, accompanying string chords were reconstructed, and above all the list of scored instruments was changed. The main source of the Urtext edition by Ernst-Gunter Heinemann is the new edition of the score originally published in 1907 by C. F. Peters, thus several years after the first edition of 1872. Taken into account in the present edition are the changes that Grieg made up to the time of his death. Piano reduction and fingering by Einar Steen-Nokleberg.

34 Ragtime Piano Originals by 14 Composers. Edited by Maurice Hinson. For Piano. Piano Collection. World's Greatest. Masterwork; Ragtime. Level: Advanced. Book. 144 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Piano - Grade 4

SKU: FA.MFCD007PN

By Nicolas Horvath. By Claude Debussy and Robert Orledge. Rediscoverd Debussy. Classical, Impressionistic. Score. Musik Fabrik #MFCD007PN. Published by Musik Fabrik (FA.MFCD007PN).

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Debussy's friendship with the versatile poet and playwright Gabriel Mourey began in 1899, and in July 1907 Mourey offered Debussy a libretto based on Le roman de Tristan - Joseph Bedier's adaptation of a twelfth-century Breton romance by the Anglo-Norman poet known as Thomas - which had recently been published in Paris. Debussy enthusiastically outlined the four-act plot to Victor Segalen that October, and the main differences from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde are that none of the action takes place in Cornwall and that Isolde of the White Hands is found guilty of cuckolding King Marc with Tristan, who has to rescue her from the leper colony in which she is abandoned in Act 1. She also betrays him when he goes mad at the end.

The idea of a Tristan that restored its 'legendary character' and had no connections with Wagner, appealed to Debussy, who was extremely moved by the circumstances of Tristan's death. Even if he thought that Mourey's poetry was 'not very lyrical and many passages do not exactly invite music', he did work on the libretto and the music that summer and sent his publisher, Jacques Durand, 'one of the 363 themes for the Roman de Tristan' in a letter sent from Pourville on 23 August, 1907. The present prelude grows from this theme, together with the poignant Breton folksong Le Faucon. After a short atmospheric introduction, Debussy's dance-like theme (which is definitely not a leitmotif) gradually gains momentum and after it reaches its ecstatic climax, representing the transient happiness of the lovers, it dissolves into an expressive coda and an elegiac close (all growing from Debussy's opening, off-stage trumpet calls), leaving us with the ultimate tragedy of their ill-fated affair.

Unfortunately, Mourey's actual libretto has been lost and the project eventually foundered because Bedier's cousin, Louis Artus, wanted Debussy to use the scenario he had prepared and copyrighted for the stage, and would not allow him to proceed with Mourey's version. Debussy, it need hardly be said, would never have dreamed of collaborating with the author of the vaudeville hit La culotte (The pants)!

By Ernesto Koehler (1849-1907) and Ernesto Kohler (1849-1907). Edited by Ransom Wilson. For Flute and piano. Flute and piano

Solo Piano

SKU: AP.36-50760013

Composed by Amy Marcy Beach. Solo. Master Piano Series. Book. LudwigMasters Publications #36-50760013. Published by LudwigMasters Publications (AP.36-50760013).

ISBN 9781633611801. UPC: 660355131431. English.

Amy Beach (1867-1944) wrote Les Rêves de Colombine (Columbine's Dreams), a Suite Française for piano, in 1907 and premiered them herself at a recital on April 17, 1907, at Boston's Hotel Tuileries. Movements: 1. La Fée de la Fontaine (The Fairy In The Fountain), 2. Le Prince Gracieux (The Gracious Prince), 3. Valse Amoureuse (Waltz of Love), 4. Sous les Étoiles (Under The Stars), and 5. Danse d'Arlequin (Harlequin's Dance).

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Composed by Hubert Parry, Johann, Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Erik Satie (1866-1925), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), and George Frideric Handel (1685- 1759). Collections; Masterworks; Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. The Piano Player Series. Classical; Masterwork Arrangement. Book. Faber Music #12-057154200X. Published by Faber Music

Piano

SKU: HL.48188982

Leduc. CD. 24 pages. Heugel & Cie #HE33888. Published by Heugel & Cie (HL.48188982).

UPC: 888680874216. 9x12 inches.

“Composed by Reynaldo Hahn, Sonatina in C major (1907) is a piece for Piano for intermediate players. This really melodious piece is divided in three main movements. 1. Allegro Moderato in C The main theme starts the piece with an accent on the tonic arpeggio. Counterpoint principle is also used thanks to a canon in two measures. 2. Andantino Rubato in G Written in the form ABA, this movement is then continued by four variations of the theme. 3. Final in G The piece ends on a coda with harmonious arpeggios, played after a ternary dance. Reynaldo Hahn was a naturalised French composer, conductor, theatre director and singer. Best known as a composer of songs, he also wrote many pieces and melodies for different instruments.&rdquo.

By Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). For voice and piano. Published by Musikk-Husets Forlag

Solo Piano

SKU: AP.36-50760012

Composed by Amy Marcy Beach. Solo; Solo Small Ensembles. Master Piano Series. Book. LudwigMasters Publications #36-50760012. Published by LudwigMasters Publications (AP.36-50760012).

ISBN 9781633611795. UPC: 654690493804. English.

Amy Beach (1867-1944) wrote the four short vignettes for piano in 1907 upon hearing an early recording of Inuit songs. She used eleven of these melodies and set them to harmonies of Western music with which she was familiar. Movements: 1. Arctic Night, 2. The Returning Hunter, 3. Exiles, and 4. With Dog-Teams.

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Piano - Grade 5

SKU: FA.MFCD017B

By Nicolas Horvath. By Claude Debussy and Robert Orledge. Rediscoverd Debussy. Christmas. Score. Musik Fabrik #MFCD017B. Published by Musik Fabrik (FA.MFCD017B).

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Contains Le Roi Lear: Prelude,Premiere Fanfare, and La Mort de Cordelia,Toomai des elephants, Rodrigue et Chimene: Prelude a l'acte 1p. Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien: La Passion , and No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence

From Robert Orledge's notes:

My interest in the wonderful music of Claude Debussy began in the 1980s when I researched and published a book with Cambridge University Press entitled Debussy and the Theatre. During the course of my studies in Paris, I was amazed to discover that Debussy planned over 50 theatrical works but only finished two of these entirely by himself (the opera Pelleas et Melisande in 1893-1902 and the ballet Jeux for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1912-13). Of the rest, many were never started musically (like Siddartha and Orphee-roi with the Oriental scholar Victor Segalen, 1907); some had a few tantalising sketches (like the Edgar Allan Poe opera Le Diable dans le beffroi, 1902-03); some were half-finished (like his other Poe opera La Chute de la Maison Usher, 1908-17); while others were musically complete but had their orchestrations completed by other composers (like Khamma, by Charles Koechlin, 1912-13; or Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien and La Boite a joujoux by his 'angel of corrections' ['l'ange des Corrections'] Andre Caplet in 1911 and 1919 respectively).

For it has to be admitted that what some scholars call Debussy's 'compulsive achievement' could equally well be viewed as laziness, especially as far as the minute detail required for calligraphing his orchestral scores was concerned. It was as if creating the music itself was of greater importance than controlling its final sound, even if Debussy was an imaginative orchestrator when he found the time and energy to do it. It also seems true that Debussy also preferred inventing ideas to turning them into complete pieces. However, despite the lack of detail in many of his sketches (missing clefs, key signatures, dynamics, phrasing, etc.) the notes themselves are surprisingly accurate, whether or not they can be compared with a later draft. Thus, a large number of sketches exist for his Chinese ballet No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence and it is not too difficult to see which parts of Georges de Feure's 1913 scenario (see below) inspired which ideas. But Debussy hardly made any attempt to join them together after the first few bars.

It was usually up to his publisher, Jacques Durand, to find solutions when Debussy risked a breach of contract. Debussy was supposed to supervise the orchestrations completed by others, but this supervision was usually very light and restricted to quiet, sensitive moments in which problems were easier to spot. Far from jealously guarding every one of his created notes, as Ravel did, Debussy once even went as far as to ask Koechlin to 'write a ballet for him that he would sign' on 26 March 1914 when he was hard-pressed to fulfil his lucrative contract for No-ja-li with Andre Charlot at the Alhambra Theatre in London. In the end, Debussy (through Durand) sent Charlot the symphonic suite Printemps instead, whose orchestration had been completed by Henri Busser in the Spring of 1912.

So, when I was offered early retirement as Professor of Music at Liverpool University in 2004, I seized the opportunity it would give me to spend time trying to reconstruct some of Debussy's lost potential masterpieces from his existing sketches and drafts--then orchestrating them in Debussy's style when this was appropriate. I had begun this mission in 2001 with the most promising project, the missing parts of Scene 2 of La Chute de la Maison Usher and the sheer joy it gave me at every stage persuaded me to tackle other projects, especially when Debussy experts were unable to identify exactly where I took over from Debussy (and vice versa) in Usher.

Composed by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). Masterworks; Piano Collection. Kalmus Edition. Masterwork; Romantic. Book. 216 pages. Kalmus Classic Edition #00-K09549. Published by Kalmus Classic Edition

In the Hall of the Mountain King (John Thompson's Students Series/Later Elementary Level). By Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). Arranged by John Thompson. Willis. Late Elementary. 4 pages. Willis Music #6063. Published by Willis Music

Composed by Alec Wilder (1907-1980). Shawnee Press. Classical. 36 pages. Shawnee Press #AW0143. Published by Shawnee Press