Piano
SKU:
HL.48024396
Piano. Composed by
Sergei Bortkiewicz. BH
Piano. Classical.
Softcover. 24 pages.
Simrock #M221122391.
Published by Simrock
(HL.48024396).
ISBN
9783923051540. UPC:
196288199489.
9.0x12.0x0.93
inches.
Sergei
Bortkiewicz (1877-1952)
continued the
late-Romantic piano
tradition with great
melodic talent. After
studying in St.
Petersburg with Anatoly
Lyadov and in Leipzig
with the Liszt pupil
Alfred Reisenauer, the
native Ukrainian settled
in Berlin. Political
times blocked his career
several times. Only in
1945 he was able to
regain his footing in
Vienna. The Fantasy
Pieces for Piano op. 61
were to be printed in
1949 by the music
publishers Benjamin, but
again the political
circumstances were not
favorable for
Bortkiewicz. In 2013, the
manuscript was discovered
in the Saxon State
Archive Leipzig. This
first edition finally
makes Bortkiewicz's
highly pianistic pieces
accessible. The fantasy
pieces do not deny the
role models Chopin,
Rachmaninoff and
Tchaikovsky and bribe
with Slavic tinted
melancholy, paired with
Viennese charm.
