L'intention de Robert Schumann pour créer les précieux et, en ce qui concerne didactique, musique judicieusement créée pour les enfants et les jeunes ne se limitait pas à la für die Jugend opus 68 de l'Album mondialement célèbre pour piano (1848). Hormis la Liederalbum für die Jugend Opus 79 (1849), il a également créé deux oeuvres qui devraient encourager jouant piano quatre mains et qui était très populaires dans la musique intérieure du XIXe siècle : le progressivement arrangé 12 vierhändige Klavierstücke für kleine und große Kinder opus 85 (1849) et Kinderball Opus 130 (1853), qui a mis le leichte Sechs Tanzstücke ensemble dans une charmante suite archaïque. Basé sur le score de la nouvelle édition complète de Schumann (éd. par Joachim Draheim und Bernhard Appel), la nouvelle édition de la Wiener Urtext édition pour la première fois présente un urtext fiable basée sur les sources, y compris un morceau de piano facile jusqu'ici inédit qui était destiné à 85 op. / Piano 4 Mains

Contains 15 of Schubert's best-loved, most popular four-hand compositions, including Three Military Marches, Sonata in C Major, Variations in A-flat Major on an Original Theme, Andantino Varie in B Minor on French Motifs, more. Contenu : Three Military Marches, Op. 51, D.733 1. D Major 2. G Major 3. E-flat Major Two Characteristic Marches, Op. 121, D.886 1. C Major 2. C Major Children's March in G Major, D.928 Overture (Ouverture) in F Major, Op. 34, D.675 Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 30, D.617 (dedicated to Count Ferdinand Palffy d'Erdöd) 1. Allegro moderato 2. Andante con moto 3. Allegretto Sonata in C Major, Op. 140 (Grand Duo), D.812 1. Allegro moderato 2. Andante 3. Scherzo. Allegro vivace 4. Allegro vivace Rhondo in A Major, Op. 107, D.951 Variations in A-flat Major on an Original Theme, Op. 35, D.813 (dedicated to Count Anton Berchtold) Variations C Major on a Theme (Was einst vor Jahren) from Hérold's opera Marie, Op. 82, No.1, D.908 (dedicated to Cajetan Neuhaus, Professor of Philosophy in Linz) Andantino Varié in B Minor on French Motifs, Op. 84, No. 1, D.823 Lebensstürme (Storms of Life), Characteristic Allegro in A Minor, Op. 144, D.947 Fantasia in F Minor, Op. 103, D.940 Four Polonaises, Op. 75, D.599 1. D Minor 2. B-flat Major 3. E Major 4. F Major Four Ländler, D.814 1. E-flat Major 2. A-flat Major 3. C Minor 4. C Major Fugue in E Minor, Op. 152, D.952

Gregory Stone has transcribed these three selected preludes for one piano-four hands. For much of his life George Gershwin sought to integrate the worlds of jazz and classical music. These pieces are not jazz improvisations but they do show something of the style of his own playing. Gershwin had intended to compose a set of twelve a sort of jazz Wohltemperierte Clavier but his unexpected death from a brain tumour at the age of 38 prevented this. At least seven survive (others may have ended up as songs) and this set of three as published form a satisfying unit. The first opens with a blue-note riff which forms the basis of the first theme.Contrasting material follows making use of a distinctive repeated note figure then the first idea reappears in a quasi-orchestral climax. The second prelude shows a curious kinship with Chopin???s A minor Prelude with its eerie accompaniment and hypnotic melody. The third exploits a similar major/minor ambivalence but dextrous syncopation gives it driving rhythmic energy.

Franz Schubert's Piano pieces for four hands are among the most varied and significant works in the repertoire. Included in this volume are fifteen of Schubert's best and most popular titles taken from the definitive Breitkopf

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