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Transcribed by Franz
Liszt. Introduction
It is true that Schubert
himself is somewhat to
blame for the very
unsatisfactory manner in
which his admirable piano
pieces are treated. He
was too immoderately
productive, wrote
incessantly, mixing
insignificant with
important things, grand
things with mediocre
work, paid no heed to
criticism, and always
soared on his wings. Like
a bird in the air, he
lived in music and sang
in angelic fashion.
--Franz Liszt, letter to
Dr. S. Lebert (1868) Of
those compositions that
greatly interest me,
there are only Chopin's
and yours. --Franz Liszt,
letter to Robert Schumann
(1838) She [Clara
Schumann] was astounded
at hearing me. Her
compositions are really
very remarkable,
especially for a woman.
There is a hundred times
more creativity and real
feeling in them than in
all the past and present
fantasias by Thalberg.
--Franz Liszt, letter to
Marie d'Agoult (1838)
Chretien Urhan
(1790-1845) was a
Belgian-born violinist,
organist and composer who
flourished in the musical
life of Paris in the
early nineteenth century.
According to various
accounts, he was deeply
religious, harshly
ascetic and wildly
eccentric, though revered
by many important and
influential members of
the Parisian musical
community. Regrettably,
history has forgotten
Urhan's many musical
achievements, the most
important of which was
arguably his pioneering
work in promoting the
music of Franz Schubert.
He devoted much of his
energies to championing
Schubert's music, which
at the time was unknown
outside of Vienna.
Undoubtedly, Urhan was
responsible for
stimulating this
enthusiasm in Franz
Liszt; Liszt regularly
heard Urhan's organ
playing in the
St.-Vincent-de-Paul
church in Paris, and the
two became personal
acquaintances. At
eighteen years of age,
Liszt was on the verge of
establishing himself as
the foremost pianist in
Europe, and this
awakening to Schubert's
music would prove to be a
profound experience.
Liszt's first travels
outside of his native
provincial Hungary were
to Vienna in 1821-1823,
where his father enrolled
him in studies with Carl
Czerny (piano) and
Antonio Salieri (music
theory). Both men had
important involvements
with Schubert; Czerny
(like Urhan) as performer
and advocate of
Schubert's music and
Salieri as his theory and
composition teacher from
1813-1817. Curiously,
Liszt and Schubert never
met personally, despite
their geographical
proximity in Vienna
during these years.
Inevitably, legends later
arose that the two had
been personal
acquaintances, although
Liszt would dismiss these
as fallacious: I never
knew Schubert personally,
he was once quoted as
saying. Liszt's initial
exposure to Schubert's
music was the Lieder,
what Urhan prized most of
all. He accompanied the
tenor Benedict
Randhartinger in numerous
performances of
Schubert's Lieder and
then, perhaps realizing
that he could benefit the
composer more on his own
terms, transcribed a
number of the Lieder for
piano solo. Many of these
transcriptions he would
perform himself on
concert tour during the
so-called Glanzzeit, or
time of splendor from
1839-1847. This publicity
did much to promote
reception of Schubert's
music throughout Europe.
Once Liszt retired from
the concert stage and
settled in Weimar as a
conductor in the 1840s,
he continued to perform
Schubert's orchestral
music, his Symphony No. 9
being a particular
favorite, and is credited
with giving the world
premiere performance of
Schubert's opera Alfonso
und Estrella in 1854. At
this time, he
contemplated writing a
biography of the
composer, which
regrettably remained
uncompleted. Liszt's
devotion to Schubert
would never waver.
Liszt's relationship with
Robert and Clara Schumann
was far different and far
more complicated; by
contrast, they were all
personal acquaintances.
What began as a
relationship of mutual
respect and admiration
soon deteriorated into
one of jealousy and
hostility, particularly
on the Schumann's part.
Liszt's initial contact
with Robert's music
happened long before they
had met personally, when
Liszt published an
analysis of Schumann's
piano music for the
Gazette musicale in 1837,
a gesture that earned
Robert's deep
appreciation. In the
following year Clara met
Liszt during a concert
tour in Vienna and
presented him with more
of Schumann's piano
music. Clara and her
father Friedrich Wieck,
who accompanied Clara on
her concert tours, were
quite taken by Liszt: We
have heard Liszt. He can
be compared to no other
player...he arouses
fright and astonishment.
His appearance at the
piano is indescribable.
He is an original...he is
absorbed by the piano.
Liszt, too, was impressed
with Clara--at first the
energy, intelligence and
accuracy of her piano
playing and later her
compositions--to the
extent that he dedicated
to her the 1838 version
of his Etudes d'execution
transcendante d'apres
Paganini. Liszt had a
closer personal
relationship with Clara
than with Robert until
the two men finally met
in 1840. Schumann was
astounded by Liszt's
piano playing. He wrote
to Clara that Liszt had
played like a god and had
inspired indescribable
furor of applause. His
review of Liszt even
included a heroic
personification with
Napoleon. In Leipzig,
Schumann was deeply
impressed with Liszt's
interpretations of his
Noveletten, Op. 21 and
Fantasy in C Major, Op.
17 (dedicated to Liszt),
enthusiastically
observing that, I feel as
if I had known you twenty
years. Yet a variety of
events followed that
diminished Liszt's glory
in the eyes of the
Schumanns. They became
critical of the cult-like
atmosphere that arose
around his recitals, or
Lisztomania as it came to
be called; conceivably,
this could be attributed
to professional jealousy.
Clara, in particular,
came to loathe Liszt,
noting in a letter to
Joseph Joachim, I despise
Liszt from the depths of
my soul. She recorded a
stunning diary entry a
day after Liszt's death,
in which she noted, He
was an eminent keyboard
virtuoso, but a dangerous
example for the
young...As a composer he
was terrible. By
contrast, Liszt did not
share in these negative
sentiments; no evidence
suggests that he had any
ill-regard for the
Schumanns. In Weimar, he
did much to promote
Schumann's music,
conducting performances
of his Scenes from Faust
and Manfred, during a
time in which few
orchestras expressed
interest, and premiered
his opera Genoveva. He
later arranged a benefit
concert for Clara
following Robert's death,
featuring Clara as
soloist in Robert's Piano
Concerto, an event that
must have been
exhilarating to witness.
Regardless, her opinion
of him would never
change, despite his
repeated gestures of
courtesy and respect.
Liszt's relationship with
Schubert was a spiritual
one, with music being the
one and only link between
the two men. That with
the Schumanns was
personal, with music
influenced by a hero
worship that would
aggravate the
relationship over time.
Nonetheless, Liszt would
remain devoted to and
enthusiastic for the
music and achievements of
these composers. He would
be a vital force in
disseminating their music
to a wider audience, as
he would be with many
other composers
throughout his career.
His primary means for
accomplishing this was
the piano transcription.
Liszt and the
Transcription
Transcription versus
Paraphrase Transcription
and paraphrase were
popular terms in
nineteenth-century music,
although certainly not
unique to this period.
Musicians understood that
there were clear
distinctions between
these two terms, but as
is often the case these
distinctions could be
blurred. Transcription,
literally writing over,
entails reworking or
adapting a piece of music
for a performance medium
different from that of
its original; arrangement
is a possible synonym.
Adapting is a key part of
this process, for the
success of a
transcription relies on
the transcriber's ability
to adapt the piece to the
different medium. As a
result, the pre-existing
material is generally
kept intact, recognizable
and intelligible; it is
strict, literal,
objective. Contextual
meaning is maintained in
the process, as are
elements of style and
form. Paraphrase, by
contrast, implies
restating something in a
different manner, as in a
rewording of a document
for reasons of clarity.
In nineteenth-century
music, paraphrasing
indicated elaborating a
piece for purposes of
expressive virtuosity,
often as a vehicle for
showmanship. Variation is
an important element, for
the source material may
be varied as much as the
paraphraser's imagination
will allow; its purpose
is metamorphosis.
Transcription is adapting
and arranging;
paraphrasing is
transforming and
reworking. Transcription
preserves the style of
the original; paraphrase
absorbs the original into
a different style.
Transcription highlights
the original composer;
paraphrase highlights the
paraphraser.
Approximately half of
Liszt's compositional
output falls under the
category of transcription
and paraphrase; it is
noteworthy that he never
used the term
arrangement. Much of his
early compositional
activities were
transcriptions and
paraphrases of works of
other composers, such as
the symphonies of
Beethoven and Berlioz,
vocal music by Schubert,
and operas by Donizetti
and Bellini. It is
conceivable that he
focused so intently on
work of this nature early
in his career as a means
to perfect his
compositional technique,
although transcription
and paraphrase continued
well after the technique
had been mastered; this
might explain why he
drastically revised and
rewrote many of his
original compositions
from the 1830s (such as
the Transcendental Etudes
and Paganini Etudes) in
the 1850s. Charles Rosen,
a sympathetic interpreter
of Liszt's piano works,
observes, The new
revisions of the
Transcendental Etudes are
not revisions but concert
paraphrases of the old,
and their art lies in the
technique of
transformation. The
Paganini etudes are piano
transcriptions of violin
etudes, and the
Transcendental Etudes are
piano transcriptions of
piano etudes. The
principles are the same.
He concludes by noting,
Paraphrase has shaded off
into
composition...Composition
and paraphrase were not
identical for him, but
they were so closely
interwoven that
separation is impossible.
The significance of
transcription and
paraphrase for Liszt the
composer cannot be
overstated, and the
mutual influence of each
needs to be better
understood. Undoubtedly,
Liszt the composer as we
know him today would be
far different had he not
devoted so much of his
career to transcribing
and paraphrasing the
music of others. He was
perhaps one of the first
composers to contend that
transcription and
paraphrase could be
genuine art forms on
equal par with original
pieces; he even claimed
to be the first to use
these two terms to
describe these classes of
arrangements. Despite the
success that Liszt
achieved with this type
of work, others viewed it
with circumspection and
criticism. Robert
Schumann, although deeply
impressed with Liszt's
keyboard virtuosity, was
harsh in his criticisms
of the transcriptions.
Schumann interpreted them
as indicators that
Liszt's virtuosity had
hindered his
compositional development
and suggested that Liszt
transcribed the music of
others to compensate for
his own compositional
deficiencies.
Nonetheless, Liszt's
piano transcriptions,
what he sometimes called
partitions de piano (or
piano scores), were
instrumental in promoting
composers whose music was
unknown at the time or
inaccessible in areas
outside of major European
capitals, areas that
Liszt willingly toured
during his Glanzzeit. To
this end, the
transcriptions had to be
literal arrangements for
the piano; a Beethoven
symphony could not be
introduced to an
unknowing audience if its
music had been subjected
to imaginative
elaborations and
variations. The same
would be true of the 1833
transcription of
Berlioz's Symphonie
fantastique (composed
only three years
earlier), the
astonishingly novel
content of which would
necessitate a literal and
intelligible rendering.
Opera, usually more
popular and accessible
for the general public,
was a different matter,
and in this realm Liszt
could paraphrase the
original and manipulate
it as his imagination
would allow without
jeopardizing its
reception; hence, the
paraphrases on the operas
of Bellini, Donizetti,
Mozart, Meyerbeer and
Verdi. Reminiscence was
another term coined by
Liszt for the opera
paraphrases, as if the
composer were reminiscing
at the keyboard following
a memorable evening at
the opera. Illustration
(reserved on two
occasions for Meyerbeer)
and fantasy were
additional terms. The
operas of Wagner were
exceptions. His music was
less suited to paraphrase
due to its general lack
of familiarity at the
time. Transcription of
Wagner's music was thus
obligatory, as it was of
Beethoven's and Berlioz's
music; perhaps the
composer himself insisted
on this approach. Liszt's
Lieder Transcriptions
Liszt's initial
encounters with
Schubert's music, as
mentioned previously,
were with the Lieder. His
first transcription of a
Schubert Lied was Die
Rose in 1833, followed by
Lob der Tranen in 1837.
Thirty-nine additional
transcriptions appeared
at a rapid pace over the
following three years,
and in 1846, the Schubert
Lieder transcriptions
would conclude, by which
point he had completed
fifty-eight, the most of
any composer. Critical
response to these
transcriptions was highly
favorable--aside from the
view held by
Schumann--particularly
when Liszt himself played
these pieces in concert.
Some were published
immediately by Anton
Diabelli, famous for the
theme that inspired
Beethoven's variations.
Others were published by
the Viennese publisher
Tobias Haslinger (one of
Beethoven's and
Schubert's publishers in
the 1820s), who sold his
reserves so quickly that
he would repeatedly plead
for more. However,
Liszt's enthusiasm for
work of this nature soon
became exhausted, as he
noted in a letter of 1839
to the publisher
Breitkopf und Hartel:
That good Haslinger
overwhelms me with
Schubert. I have just
sent him twenty-four new
songs (Schwanengesang and
Winterreise), and for the
moment I am rather tired
of this work. Haslinger
was justified in his
demands, for the Schubert
transcriptions were
received with great
enthusiasm. One Gottfried
Wilhelm Fink, then editor
of the Allgemeine
musikalische Zeitung,
observed of these
transcriptions: Nothing
in recent memory has
caused such sensation and
enjoyment in both
pianists and audiences as
these arrangements...The
demand for them has in no
way been satisfied; and
it will not be until
these arrangements are
seen on pianos
everywhere. They have
indeed made quite a
splash. Eduard Hanslick,
never a sympathetic
critic of Liszt's music,
acknowledged thirty years
after the fact that,
Liszt's transcriptions of
Schubert Lieder were
epoch-making. There was
hardly a concert in which
Liszt did not have to
play one or two of
them--even when they were
not listed on the
program. These
transcriptions quickly
became some of his most
sough-after pieces,
despite their extreme
technical demands.
Leading pianists of the
day, such as Clara Wieck
and Sigismond Thalberg,
incorporated them into
their concert programs
immediately upon
publication. Moreover,
the transcriptions would
serve as inspirations for
other composers, such as
Stephen Heller, Cesar
Franck and later Leopold
Godowsky, all of whom
produced their own
transcriptions of
Schubert's Lieder. Liszt
would transcribe the
Lieder of other composers
as well, including those
by Mendelssohn, Chopin,
Anton Rubinstein and even
himself. Robert Schumann,
of course, would not be
ignored. The first
transcription of a
Schumann Lied was the
celebrated Widmung from
Myrten in 1848, the only
Schumann transcription
that Liszt completed
during the composer's
lifetime. (Regrettably,
there is no evidence of
Schumann's regard of this
transcription, or even if
he was aware of it.) From
the years 1848-1881,
Liszt transcribed twelve
of Robert Schumann's
Lieder (including one
orchestral Lied) and
three of Clara (one from
each of her three
published Lieder cycles);
he would transcribe no
other works of these two
composers. The Schumann
Lieder transcriptions,
contrary to those of
Schubert, are literal
arrangements, posing, in
general, far fewer
demands on the pianist's
technique. They are
comparatively less
imaginative in their
treatment of the original
material. Additionally,
they seem to have been
less valued in their day
than the Schubert
transcriptions, and it is
noteworthy that none of
the Schumann
transcriptions bear
dedications, as most of
the Schubert
transcriptions do. The
greatest challenge posed
by Lieder transcriptions,
regardless of the
composer or the nature of
the transcription, was to
combine the vocal and
piano parts of the
original such that the
character of each would
be preserved, a challenge
unique to this form of
transcription. Each part
had to be intact and
aurally recognizable, the
vocal line in particular.
Complications could be
manifold in a Lied that
featured dissimilar
parts, such as Schubert's
Auf dem Wasser zu singen,
whose piano accompaniment
depicts the rocking of
the boat on the
shimmering waves while
the vocal line reflects
on the passing of time.
Similar complications
would be encountered in
Gretchen am Spinnrade, in
which the ubiquitous
sixteenth-note pattern in
the piano's right hand
epitomizes the
ever-turning spinning
wheel over which the
soprano voice expresses
feelings of longing and
heartache. The resulting
transcriptions for solo
piano would place
exceptional demands on
the pianist. The
complications would be
far less imposing in
instances in which voice
and piano were less
differentiated, as in
many of Schumann's Lieder
that Liszt transcribed.
The piano parts in these
Lieder are true
accompaniments for the
voice, providing harmonic
foundation and rhythmic
support by doubling the
vocal line throughout.
The transcriptions, thus,
are strict and literal,
with far fewer demands on
both pianist and
transcriber. In all of
Liszt's Lieder
transcriptions,
regardless of the way in
which the two parts are
combined, the melody
(i.e. the vocal line) is
invariably the focal
point; the melody should
sing on the piano, as if
it were the voice. The
piano part, although
integral to contributing
to the character of the
music, is designed to
function as
accompaniment. A singing
melody was a crucial
objective in
nineteenth-century piano
performance, which in
part might explain the
zeal in transcribing and
paraphrasing vocal music
for the piano. Friedrich
Wieck, father and teacher
of Clara Schumann,
stressed this point
repeatedly in his 1853
treatise Clavier und
Gesang (Piano and Song):
When I speak in general
of singing, I refer to
that species of singing
which is a form of
beauty, and which is a
foundation for the most
refined and most perfect
interpretation of music;
and, above all things, I
consider the culture of
beautiful tones the basis
for the finest possible
touch on the piano. In
many respects, the piano
and singing should
explain and supplement
each other. They should
mutually assist in
expressing the sublime
and the noble, in forms
of unclouded beauty. Much
of Liszt's piano music
should be interpreted
with this concept in
mind, the Lieder
transcriptions and opera
paraphrases, in
particular. To this end,
Liszt provided numerous
written instructions to
the performer to
emphasize the vocal line
in performance, with
Italian directives such
as un poco marcato il
canto, accentuato assai
il canto and ben
pronunziato il canto.
Repeated indications of
cantando,singend and
espressivo il canto
stress the significance
of the singing tone. As
an additional means of
achieving this and
providing the performer
with access to the
poetry, Liszt insisted,
at what must have been a
publishing novelty at the
time, on printing the
words of the Lied in the
music itself. Haslinger,
seemingly oblivious to
Liszt's intent, initially
printed the poems of the
early Schubert
transcriptions separately
inside the front covers.
Liszt argued that the
transcriptions must be
reprinted with the words
underlying the notes,
exactly as Schubert had
done, a request that was
honored by printing the
words above the
right-hand staff. Liszt
also incorporated a
visual scheme for
distinguishing voice and
accompaniment, influenced
perhaps by Chopin, by
notating the
accompaniment in cue
size. His transcription
of Robert Schumann's
Fruhlings Ankunft
features the vocal line
in normal size, the piano
accompaniment in reduced
size, an unmistakable
guide in a busy texture
as to which part should
be emphasized: Example 1.
Schumann-Liszt Fruhlings
Ankunft, mm. 1-2. The
same practice may be
found in the
transcription of
Schumann's An die Turen
will ich schleichen. In
this piece, the performer
must read three staves,
in which the baritone
line in the central staff
is to be shared between
the two hands based on
the stem direction of the
notes: Example 2.
Schumann-Liszt An die
Turen will ich
schleichen, mm. 1-5. This
notational practice is
extremely beneficial in
this instance, given the
challenge of reading
three staves and the
manner in which the vocal
line is performed by the
two hands. Curiously,
Liszt did not use this
practice in other
transcriptions.
Approaches in Lieder
Transcription Liszt
adopted a variety of
approaches in his Lieder
transcriptions, based on
the nature of the source
material, the ways in
which the vocal and piano
parts could be combined
and the ways in which the
vocal part could sing.
One approach, common with
strophic Lieder, in which
the vocal line would be
identical in each verse,
was to vary the register
of the vocal part. The
transcription of Lob der
Tranen, for example,
incorporates three of the
four verses of the
original Lied, with the
register of the vocal
line ascending one octave
with each verse (from low
to high), as if three
different voices were
participating. By the
conclusion, the music
encompasses the entire
range of Liszt's keyboard
to produce a stunning
climactic effect, and the
variety of register of
the vocal line provides a
welcome textural variety
in the absence of the
words. The three verses
of the transcription of
Auf dem Wasser zu singen
follow the same approach,
in which the vocal line
ascends from the tenor,
to the alto and to the
soprano registers with
each verse.
Fruhlingsglaube adopts
the opposite approach, in
which the vocal line
descends from soprano in
verse 1 to tenor in verse
2, with the second part
of verse 2 again resuming
the soprano register;
this is also the case in
Das Wandern from
Mullerlieder. Gretchen am
Spinnrade posed a unique
problem. Since the poem's
narrator is female, and
the poem represents an
expression of her longing
for her lover Faust,
variation of the vocal
line's register, strictly
speaking, would have been
impractical. For this
reason, the vocal line
remains in its original
register throughout,
relentlessly colliding
with the sixteenth-note
pattern of the
accompaniment. One
exception may be found in
the fifth and final verse
in mm. 93-112, at which
point the vocal line is
notated in a higher
register and doubled in
octaves. This sudden
textural change, one that
is readily audible, was a
strategic means to
underscore Gretchen's
mounting anxiety (My
bosom urges itself toward
him. Ah, might I grasp
and hold him! And kiss
him as I would wish, at
his kisses I should
die!). The transcription,
thus, becomes a vehicle
for maximizing the
emotional content of the
poem, an exceptional
undertaking with the
general intent of a
transcription. Registral
variation of the vocal
part also plays a crucial
role in the transcription
of Erlkonig. Goethe's
poem depicts the death of
a child who is
apprehended by a
supernatural Erlking, and
Schubert, recognizing the
dramatic nature of the
poem, carefully depicted
the characters (father,
son and Erlking) through
unique vocal writing and
accompaniment patterns:
the Lied is a dramatic
entity. Liszt, in turn,
followed Schubert's
characterization in this
literal transcription,
yet took it an additional
step by placing the
register of the father's
vocal line in the
baritone range, that of
the son in the soprano
range and that of the
Erlking in the highest
register, options that
would not have been
available in the version
for voice and piano.
Additionally, Liszt
labeled each appearance
of each character in the
score, a means for
guiding the performer in
interpreting the dramatic
qualities of the Lied. As
a result, the drama and
energy of the poem are
enhanced in this
transcription; as with
Gretchen am Spinnrade,
the transcriber has
maximized the content of
the original. Elaboration
may be found in certain
Lieder transcriptions
that expand the
performance to a level of
virtuosity not found in
the original; in such
cases, the transcription
approximates the
paraphrase. Schubert's Du
bist die Ruh, a paradigm
of musical simplicity,
features an uncomplicated
piano accompaniment that
is virtually identical in
each verse. In Liszt's
transcription, the
material is subjected to
a highly virtuosic
treatment that far
exceeds the original,
including a demanding
passage for the left hand
alone in the opening
measures and unique
textural writing in each
verse. The piece is a
transcription in
virtuosity; its art, as
Rosen noted, lies in the
technique of
transformation.
Elaboration may entail an
expansion of the musical
form, as in the extensive
introduction to Die
Forelle and a virtuosic
middle section (mm.
63-85), both of which are
not in the original. Also
unique to this
transcription are two
cadenzas that Liszt
composed in response to
the poetic content. The
first, in m. 93 on the
words und eh ich es
gedacht (and before I
could guess it), features
a twisted chromatic
passage that prolongs and
thereby heightens the
listener's suspense as to
the fate of the trout
(which is ultimately
caught). The second, in
m. 108 on the words
Betrogne an (and my blood
boiled as I saw the
betrayed one), features a
rush of
diminished-seventh
arpeggios in both hands,
epitomizing the poet's
rage at the fisherman for
catching the trout. Less
frequent are instances in
which the length of the
original Lied was
shortened in the
transcription, a tendency
that may be found with
certain strophic Lieder
(e.g., Der Leiermann,
Wasserflut and Das
Wandern). Another
transcription that
demonstrates Liszt's
readiness to modify the
original in the interests
of the poetic content is
Standchen, the seventh
transcription from
Schubert's
Schwanengesang. Adapted
from Act II of
Shakespeare's Cymbeline,
the poem represents the
repeated beckoning of a
man to his lover. Liszt
transformed the Lied into
a miniature drama by
transcribing the vocal
line of the first verse
in the soprano register,
that of the second verse
in the baritone register,
in effect, creating a
dialogue between the two
lovers. In mm. 71-102,
the dialogue becomes a
canon, with one voice
trailing the other like
an echo (as labeled in
the score) at the
distance of a beat. As in
other instances, the
transcription resembles
the paraphrase, and it is
perhaps for this reason
that Liszt provided an
ossia version that is
more in the nature of a
literal transcription.
The ossia version, six
measures shorter than
Schubert's original, is
less demanding
technically than the
original transcription,
thus representing an
ossia of transcription
and an ossia of piano
technique. The Schumann
Lieder transcriptions, in
general, display a less
imaginative treatment of
the source material.
Elaborations are less
frequently encountered,
and virtuosity is more
restricted, as if the
passage of time had
somewhat tamed the
composer's approach to
transcriptions;
alternatively, Liszt was
eager to distance himself
from the fierce
virtuosity of his early
years. In most instances,
these transcriptions are
literal arrangements of
the source material, with
the vocal line in its
original form combined
with the accompaniment,
which often doubles the
vocal line in the
original Lied. Widmung,
the first of the Schumann
transcriptions, is one
exception in the way it
recalls the virtuosity of
the Schubert
transcriptions of the
1830s. Particularly
striking is the closing
section (mm. 58-73), in
which material of the
opening verse (right
hand) is combined with
the triplet quarter notes
(left hand) from the
second section of the
Lied (mm. 32-43), as if
the transcriber were
attempting to reconcile
the different material of
these two sections.
Fruhlingsnacht resembles
a paraphrase by
presenting each of the
two verses in differing
registers (alto for verse
1, mm. 3-19, and soprano
for verse 2, mm. 20-31)
and by concluding with a
virtuosic section that
considerably extends the
length of the original
Lied. The original
tonalities of the Lieder
were generally retained
in the transcriptions,
showing that the tonality
was an important part of
the transcription
process. The infrequent
instances of
transposition were done
for specific reasons. In
1861, Liszt transcribed
two of Schumann's Lieder,
one from Op. 36 (An den
Sonnenschein), another
from Op. 27 (Dem roten
Roslein), and merged
these two pieces in the
collection 2 Lieder; they
share only the common
tonality of A major. His
choice for combining
these two Lieder remains
unknown, but he clearly
recognized that some
tonal variety would be
needed, for which reason
Dem roten Roslein was
transposed to C>= major.
The collection features
An den Sonnenschein in A
major (with a transition
to the new tonality),
followed by Dem roten
Roslein in C>= major
(without a change of key
signature), and
concluding with a reprise
of An den Sonnenschein in
A major. A three-part
form was thus established
with tonal variety
provided by keys in third
relations (A-C>=-A); in
effect, two of Schumann's
Lieder were transcribed
into an archetypal song
without words. In other
instances, Liszt treated
tonality and tonal
organization as important
structural ingredients,
particularly in the
transcriptions of
Schubert's Lieder cycles,
i.e. Schwanengesang,
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A lot is known
about the American
composer Leroy Anderson.
This son of Swedish
immigrants played the
piano, organ, accordion,
trombone, tuba and double
bass. He spoke several
languages fluently and
graduated from Harvard
with first-class
honours.While on military
service, the army also
commissioned him to write
a manual on Icelandic
grammar.He already
started writing musical
arrangements as a
student, and from his
30th year arranged and
composed for the Boston
Pops Orchestra. Such
melodiesas Serenata, The
Typewriter, Sleigh Ride
and Bugler�s
Holiday made him world
famous. His best-known
work, Blue Tango, reached
number one in the US
charts in 1952, and it
sold more than a million
copies. In 1975, a year
after hisdeath, he was
given a star at the Walk
of Fame in Hollywood.Most
of his works last no
longer than three
minutes, about the
maximum length of a
single at that time. One
work that lasts longer is
his 1953 Piano Concerto
in C for piano and
orchestra.The first
performance was in
Chicago, conducted by the
composer and with Eugene
List at the piano.
However, after three
performances he was no
longer happy with the
work and withdrew it. He
always intended to revise
it, but never got round
to it. Itwas only in 1989
that the Anderson family
decided to republish the
work.This three-part
composition is on the one
hand characterised by a
careless elegance, but on
the other one can hear
the influence of
Rachmaninoff, Copland,
Gershwin, and
evenBeethoven and Mozart,
as well as the Viennese
classics.Anderson used
the sonata form for the
first movement. It ends
with a cadenza that
carries us on into the
second part (in e minor).
The third part is a
typically cheerful
American folk dance in2/4
time, a so-called Hoe
Down, with a lilting,
lyrical passage as its
middle section. At the
end comes a solo passage
followed by a rapid
close.In this piano
concerto, Anderson
combines a rigidly
classical form of
composition with simple
andappealing themes and
elements from light
music. So this work is a
perfect synthesis of
light music and what is
called serious music, in
the same way as
Gershwin�s
Rhapsody in Blue. A work
that can be played
equally well in a
concerthall, at an
open-air concert or even
a pop
concert.
Over de
Amerikaanse componist
Leroy Anderson is veel
bekend. Deze zoon van
Zweedse immigranten
speelde piano, orgel,
accordeon, trombone, tuba
en contrabas. Hij sprak
vloeiend verschillende
talen en studeerde met
grote onderscheidingaf
aan Harvard en schreef
tijdens zijn legerdienst
in opdracht van het leger
een handboek grammatica
Ijslands.Al in zijn
studententijd begon hij
met het maken van
arrangementen, en vanaf
zijn 30ste arrangeerde en
componeerde hijvoor het
Boston Pops Orchestra.
Melodieën zoals
Serenata, The Typewriter,
Sleigh Ride en Bugler's
Holiday maakte hem
wereldberoemd. Zijn
bekendste werk Blue Tango
stond in 1952 op nummer
één in de VS
Charts, ener werden meer
dan een miljoen
exemplaren van verkocht.
Een jaar na zijn dood in
1975 kreeg hij een ster
op de Walk of Fame in
Hollywood.Zijn meeste
werken duren niet langer
dan drie minuten,
ongeveer de maximumduur
van een singletoen. Een
werk dat wel langer
duurt, is het
pianoconcerto in C voor
piano en orkest uit 1953.
Het werd in Chicago
gecreëerd onder zijn
leiding met Eugene List
aan de piano. Na drie
uitvoeringen echter, was
hij niet meer
tevredenover zijn werk en
trok dit terug. Hij had
zijn leven lang de
intentie het te herwerken
doch kwam er niet meer
toe. Pas in 1989 besliste
de Anderson Familie zijn
pianoconcerto toch
opnieuw uit te geven.Dit
driedelige werk
wordtenerzijds getypeerd
door een zorgeloze
elegantie, maar
anderzijds zijn invloeden
van Rachmaninoff,
Copland, Gerschwin en
zelfs Beethoven en Mozart
alsook de Weense
klassiekers te horen.Voor
de eerste beweging, past
Anderson de
sonatevormtoe. Op het
einde volgt een cadenza
die ons in het tweede
deel (in mi klein) voert.
Het derde deel is een
typische Amerikaanse,
vrolijke volksdans in
2/4, een zogenaamde Hoe
Down met als
middengedeelte een
zangerige,
lyrische
Ãœber
den amerikanischen
Komponisten Leroy
Anderson lässt sich
vieles berichten: Der
Sohn schwedischer
Immigranten spielte
Klavier, Orgel,
Akkordeon, Posaune, Tuba
und Kontrabass, sprach
neun Sprachen
fließend, absolvierte
mit
einemMagna-cum-laude-Absc
hluss die Harvard
Universität und
verfasste während
seiner Militärzeit im
Zweiten Weltkrieg für
die amerikanische Armee
eine Grammatik des
Isländischen. Schon
während seiner
Studentenzeit begann er
zu arrangieren, ab Mitte
der30er Jahre des letzten
Jahrhunderts arrangierte
und komponierte er für
das Boston Pops
Orchestra. Aus seiner
Feder stammen so bekannte
Werke der leichten Muse
wie Serenata, The
Typewriter, Sleigh Ride
oder Bugler�s
Holiday. Sein
wohlbekanntestes
Stück, Blue Tango,
wurde als erste
Instrumentalkomposition
über eine Million Mal
verkauft und belegte im
Jahr 1952 Platz 1 der
US-Charts. Für seine
Verdienste um die
Schallplattenindustrie
erhielt er ein Jahr nach
seinem Tod einenStern auf
dem Walk of Fame in
Hollywood.Charakteristisc
h für seine Werke ist
die Dauer: die meisten
sind rund drei Minuten
lang � mehr passte
nicht auf den damals
gebräuchlichen
Tonträger, eine
Singleschallplatte. Nur
wenige
seinerKompositionen
sprengen diesen
Zeitrahmen. Dazu
gehört sein Konzert
C-Dur für Klavier und
Orchester. Er komponierte
es 1953, die
Uraufführung fand
unter seiner Leitung und
mit Eugene List am
Klavier im selben Jahr in
Chicago statt. Da
Anderson mit demWerk aber
nicht zufrieden war, zog
er es im Sommer 1954,
nach nur drei
Aufführungen, wieder
ein. Er hatte zeitlebens
die Absicht, es zu
überarbeiten, allein,
es kam nicht mehr dazu.
Erst 1989 entschied sich
die Anderson-Familie
dazu, dasKlavierkonzert
wieder zu
veröffentlichen.Das
dreisätzige Werk zeigt
die Unbeschwertheit und
Eleganz, die Andersons
sämtliche
Kompositionen
auszeichnen. Dennoch
findet man darin auch
Anklänge an
Komponisten wie
Rachmaninoff, Copland,
Gershwin, undeben
Beethoven und Mozart,
sowie die Wiener
Klassiker. Der erste Satz
folgt der
Sonatenhauptsatzform. An
seinem Ende steht eine
Klavierkadenz, die direkt
in den langsamen zweiten
Satz (in e-Moll)
überleitet. Der dritte
Satz schließlich ist
einwaschechter Hoe Down,
ein fröhlicher
amerikanischer Volkstanz
im 2/4-Takt, in dessen
Zentrum aber eine
lyrisch-gesangliche
Passage steht. Eine
weitere Solo-Kadenz
führt das Werk in
einen spritzigen
Schlussabschnitt.In
seinem
Klavierkonzertvereinigt
Anderson einen
klassisch-traditionellen
Form- und
Kompositionsstil mit
Elementen der
Unterhaltungsmusik und
eingängigen Melodien,
die schon immer sein
Markenzeichen waren.
Daher bildet dieses Werk
eine perfekte Synthese
von ernster undleichter
Musik. Es passt �
wie beispielsweise auch
George Gershwins Rhapsody
in Blue �
gleichermaßen in einen
vornehmen Konzertsaal,
wie auch zur
zwanglos-lockeren
Atmosphäre einer
sommerlichen
Open-Air-Veranstaltung
oder
einesPops-Konzertes. <
br>Nous savons beaucoup
de choses sur le
compositeur américain
Leroy Anderson. Ce fils
dimmigrants suédois
jouait du piano, de
lorgue, de laccordéon,
du trombone, du tuba et
de la contrebasse. Il
parlait couramment
plusieurs langues et
était diplômé
avec grande distinction
de Harvard. Pendant son
service militaire, il
écrivit un manuel de
grammaire islandaise
commandé par
larmée.Étudiant,
il avait déj
commencé faire des
arrangements et dès l
ge de 30 ans, il
arrangeait et composait
pour le Boston Pops
Orchestra. Des
mélodies telles que
Serenata, The Typewriter,
Sleigh Ride et Buglers
Holiday lui valurent une
renommée mondiale. Son
uvre phare, Blue Tango,
fut numéro un
descharts américains
en 1952 et se vendit plus
dun million dexemplaires.
Un an après sa mort en
1975, il eut droit son
étoile sur le Walk of
Fame Hollywood.La plupart
de ses uvres nexcèdent
pas trois minutes, soit
peu près la durée
maximale dun single
lépoque. Son concerto
en ut pour piano et
orchestre de 1953 est
quant lui plus long. Il
fut créé Chicago
sous sa direction avec
Eugene List au piano.
Après trois
exécutions, Anderson
nétait toutefois plus
satisfait de son travail
et le retira. Toute sa
vie, il eut lintention de
le remanier mais ne le
fit pas. Ce nest quen
1989 que la famille
Anderson décida de
tout de m?me
rééditer son
concerto pour piano.Cette
uvre en trois parties se
caractérise par son
élégance
nonchalante mais aussi
par linfluence de
Rachmaninoff, Copland,
Gershwin et m?me de
Beethoven et Mozart,
ainsi que des classiques
viennois.Pour le premier
mouvement, Anderson opte
pour une sonate. la fin,
une cadence nous conduit
la deuxième partie (en
mi mineur). La
troisième partie est
une danse populaire
joyeuse et typiquement
américaine en 2/4, une
Hoe Down avec un passage
lyrique et mélodieux
en son milieu. la fin, un
solo est suivi par une
clôture rapide.Dans
son concerto pour piano,
Anderson unit une
composition pure et
classique des thèmes
beaux et simples, sans
oublier des
éléments de la
musique légère.
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| Concerto In C For Piano And Symphonic Wind Orch. Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Beriato Music
Concert Band/Harmonie and Piano SKU: BT.BMP8091417 Composed by Leroy Ande...(+)
Concert Band/Harmonie and
Piano SKU:
BT.BMP8091417
Composed by Leroy
Anderson. Arranged by
Jörg Murschinski. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2008. Beriato Music
#BMP8091417. Published by
Beriato Music
(BT.BMP8091417).
A lot is known
about the American
composer Leroy Anderson.
This son of Swedish
immigrants played the
piano, organ, accordion,
trombone, tuba and double
bass. He spoke several
languages fluently and
graduated from Harvard
with first-class
honours.While on military
service, the army also
commissioned him to write
a manual on Icelandic
grammar.He already
started writing musical
arrangements as a
student, and from his
30th year arranged and
composed for the Boston
Pops Orchestra. Such
melodiesas Serenata, The
Typewriter, Sleigh Ride
and Bugler�s
Holiday made him world
famous. His best-known
work, Blue Tango, reached
number one in the US
charts in 1952, and it
sold more than a million
copies. In 1975, a year
after hisdeath, he was
given a star at the Walk
of Fame in Hollywood.Most
of his works last no
longer than three
minutes, about the
maximum length of a
single at that time. One
work that lasts longer is
his 1953 Piano Concerto
in C for piano and
orchestra.The first
performance was in
Chicago, conducted by the
composer and with Eugene
List at the piano.
However, after three
performances he was no
longer happy with the
work and withdrew it. He
always intended to revise
it, but never got round
to it. Itwas only in 1989
that the Anderson family
decided to republish the
work.This three-part
composition is on the one
hand characterised by a
careless elegance, but on
the other one can hear
the influence of
Rachmaninoff, Copland,
Gershwin, and
evenBeethoven and Mozart,
as well as the Viennese
classics.Anderson used
the sonata form for the
first movement. It ends
with a cadenza that
carries us on into the
second part (in e minor).
The third part is a
typically cheerful
American folk dance in2/4
time, a so-called Hoe
Down, with a lilting,
lyrical passage as its
middle section. At the
end comes a solo passage
followed by a rapid
close.In this piano
concerto, Anderson
combines a rigidly
classical form of
composition with simple
andappealing themes and
elements from light
music. So this work is a
perfect synthesis of
light music and what is
called serious music, in
the same way as
Gershwin�s
Rhapsody in Blue. A work
that can be played
equally well in a
concerthall, at an
open-air concert or even
a pop
concert.
Over de
Amerikaanse componist
Leroy Anderson is veel
bekend. Deze zoon van
Zweedse immigranten
speelde piano, orgel,
accordeon, trombone, tuba
en contrabas. Hij sprak
vloeiend verschillende
talen en studeerde met
grote onderscheidingaf
aan Harvard en schreef
tijdens zijn legerdienst
in opdracht van het leger
een handboek grammatica
Ijslands.Al in zijn
studententijd begon hij
met het maken van
arrangementen, en vanaf
zijn 30ste arrangeerde en
componeerde hijvoor het
Boston Pops Orchestra.
Melodieën zoals
Serenata, The Typewriter,
Sleigh Ride en Bugler's
Holiday maakte hem
wereldberoemd. Zijn
bekendste werk Blue Tango
stond in 1952 op nummer
één in de VS
Charts, ener werden meer
dan een miljoen
exemplaren van verkocht.
Een jaar na zijn dood in
1975 kreeg hij een ster
op de Walk of Fame in
Hollywood.Zijn meeste
werken duren niet langer
dan drie minuten,
ongeveer de maximumduur
van een singletoen. Een
werk dat wel langer
duurt, is het
pianoconcerto in C voor
piano en orkest uit 1953.
Het werd in Chicago
gecreëerd onder zijn
leiding met Eugene List
aan de piano. Na drie
uitvoeringen echter, was
hij niet meer
tevredenover zijn werk en
trok dit terug. Hij had
zijn leven lang de
intentie het te herwerken
doch kwam er niet meer
toe. Pas in 1989 besliste
de Anderson Familie zijn
pianoconcerto toch
opnieuw uit te geven.Dit
driedelige werk
wordtenerzijds getypeerd
door een zorgeloze
elegantie, maar
anderzijds zijn invloeden
van Rachmaninoff,
Copland, Gerschwin en
zelfs Beethoven en Mozart
alsook de Weense
klassiekers te horen.Voor
de eerste beweging, past
Anderson de
sonatevormtoe. Op het
einde volgt een cadenza
die ons in het tweede
deel (in mi klein) voert.
Het derde deel is een
typische Amerikaanse,
vrolijke volksdans in
2/4, een zogenaamde Hoe
Down met als
middengedeelte een
zangerige,
lyrische
Ãœber
den amerikanischen
Komponisten Leroy
Anderson lässt sich
vieles berichten: Der
Sohn schwedischer
Immigranten spielte
Klavier, Orgel,
Akkordeon, Posaune, Tuba
und Kontrabass, sprach
neun Sprachen
fließend, absolvierte
mit
einemMagna-cum-laude-Absc
hluss die Harvard
Universität und
verfasste während
seiner Militärzeit im
Zweiten Weltkrieg für
die amerikanische Armee
eine Grammatik des
Isländischen. Schon
während seiner
Studentenzeit begann er
zu arrangieren, ab Mitte
der30er Jahre des letzten
Jahrhunderts arrangierte
und komponierte er für
das Boston Pops
Orchestra. Aus seiner
Feder stammen so bekannte
Werke der leichten Muse
wie Serenata, The
Typewriter, Sleigh Ride
oder Bugler�s
Holiday. Sein
wohlbekanntestes
Stück, Blue Tango,
wurde als erste
Instrumentalkomposition
über eine Million Mal
verkauft und belegte im
Jahr 1952 Platz 1 der
US-Charts. Für seine
Verdienste um die
Schallplattenindustrie
erhielt er ein Jahr nach
seinem Tod einenStern auf
dem Walk of Fame in
Hollywood.Charakteristisc
h für seine Werke ist
die Dauer: die meisten
sind rund drei Minuten
lang � mehr passte
nicht auf den damals
gebräuchlichen
Tonträger, eine
Singleschallplatte. Nur
wenige
seinerKompositionen
sprengen diesen
Zeitrahmen. Dazu
gehört sein Konzert
C-Dur für Klavier und
Orchester. Er komponierte
es 1953, die
Uraufführung fand
unter seiner Leitung und
mit Eugene List am
Klavier im selben Jahr in
Chicago statt. Da
Anderson mit demWerk aber
nicht zufrieden war, zog
er es im Sommer 1954,
nach nur drei
Aufführungen, wieder
ein. Er hatte zeitlebens
die Absicht, es zu
überarbeiten, allein,
es kam nicht mehr dazu.
Erst 1989 entschied sich
die Anderson-Familie
dazu, dasKlavierkonzert
wieder zu
veröffentlichen.Das
dreisätzige Werk zeigt
die Unbeschwertheit und
Eleganz, die Andersons
sämtliche
Kompositionen
auszeichnen. Dennoch
findet man darin auch
Anklänge an
Komponisten wie
Rachmaninoff, Copland,
Gershwin, undeben
Beethoven und Mozart,
sowie die Wiener
Klassiker. Der erste Satz
folgt der
Sonatenhauptsatzform. An
seinem Ende steht eine
Klavierkadenz, die direkt
in den langsamen zweiten
Satz (in e-Moll)
überleitet. Der dritte
Satz schließlich ist
einwaschechter Hoe Down,
ein fröhlicher
amerikanischer Volkstanz
im 2/4-Takt, in dessen
Zentrum aber eine
lyrisch-gesangliche
Passage steht. Eine
weitere Solo-Kadenz
führt das Werk in
einen spritzigen
Schlussabschnitt.In
seinem
Klavierkonzertvereinigt
Anderson einen
klassisch-traditionellen
Form- und
Kompositionsstil mit
Elementen der
Unterhaltungsmusik und
eingängigen Melodien,
die schon immer sein
Markenzeichen waren.
Daher bildet dieses Werk
eine perfekte Synthese
von ernster undleichter
Musik. Es passt �
wie beispielsweise auch
George Gershwins Rhapsody
in Blue �
gleichermaßen in einen
vornehmen Konzertsaal,
wie auch zur
zwanglos-lockeren
Atmosphäre einer
sommerlichen
Open-Air-Veranstaltung
oder
einesPops-Konzertes. <
br>Nous savons beaucoup
de choses sur le
compositeur américain
Leroy Anderson. Ce fils
dimmigrants suédois
jouait du piano, de
lorgue, de laccordéon,
du trombone, du tuba et
de la contrebasse. Il
parlait couramment
plusieurs langues et
était diplômé
avec grande distinction
de Harvard. Pendant son
service militaire, il
écrivit un manuel de
grammaire islandaise
commandé par
larmée.Étudiant,
il avait déj
commencé faire des
arrangements et dès l
ge de 30 ans, il
arrangeait et composait
pour le Boston Pops
Orchestra. Des
mélodies telles que
Serenata, The Typewriter,
Sleigh Ride et Buglers
Holiday lui valurent une
renommée mondiale. Son
uvre phare, Blue Tango,
fut numéro un
descharts américains
en 1952 et se vendit plus
dun million dexemplaires.
Un an après sa mort en
1975, il eut droit son
étoile sur le Walk of
Fame Hollywood.La plupart
de ses uvres nexcèdent
pas trois minutes, soit
peu près la durée
maximale dun single
lépoque. Son concerto
en ut pour piano et
orchestre de 1953 est
quant lui plus long. Il
fut créé Chicago
sous sa direction avec
Eugene List au piano.
Après trois
exécutions, Anderson
nétait toutefois plus
satisfait de son travail
et le retira. Toute sa
vie, il eut lintention de
le remanier mais ne le
fit pas. Ce nest quen
1989 que la famille
Anderson décida de
tout de m?me
rééditer son
concerto pour piano.Cette
uvre en trois parties se
caractérise par son
élégance
nonchalante mais aussi
par linfluence de
Rachmaninoff, Copland,
Gershwin et m?me de
Beethoven et Mozart,
ainsi que des classiques
viennois.Pour le premier
mouvement, Anderson opte
pour une sonate. la fin,
une cadence nous conduit
la deuxième partie (en
mi mineur). La
troisième partie est
une danse populaire
joyeuse et typiquement
américaine en 2/4, une
Hoe Down avec un passage
lyrique et mélodieux
en son milieu. la fin, un
solo est suivi par une
clôture rapide.Dans
son concerto pour piano,
Anderson unit une
composition pure et
classique des thèmes
beaux et simples, sans
oublier des
éléments de la
musique légère.
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| Concerto Piano seul Theodore Presser Co.
Orchestra Piano SKU: PR.11641861SP Composed by William Kraft. Part. 35 pa...(+)
Orchestra Piano SKU:
PR.11641861SP
Composed by William
Kraft. Part. 35 pages.
Duration 21 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#116-41861SP. Published
by Theodore Presser
Company (PR.11641861SP).
UPC:
680160685202. What?
! - my composer
colleagues said - A
concerto for the piano?
It's a 19th century
instrument! Admittedly we
are in an age when
originally created
timbres and/or
musico-technological
formulations are often
the modus operandi of a
piece. Actually, this
Concerto began about two
years ago when, during
one of my creative jogs,
the sound of the
uppermost register of the
piano mingled with wind
chimes penetrated my
inner ear. The challenge
and fascination of
exploring and developing
this idea into an
orchestral situation
determined that some day
soon I would be writing a
work for piano and
orchestra. So it was a
very happy coincidence
when Mona Golabek phoned
to tell me she would like
discuss the Ford
Foundation commission.
After covering areas of
aesthetics and
compositional styles, we
found that we had a good
working rapport, and she
asked if I would accept
the commission. The
answer was obvious. Then
began the intensive
thought process on the
stylistic essence and
organization of the work.
Along with this went a
renewed study of
idiomatic writing for the
piano, of the kind
Stravinsky undertook with
the violin when he began
his Violin Concerto. By a
stroke of great fortune,
the day in February 1972
that I received official
notice from the Ford
Foundation of the
commission, I also
received a letter from
the Guggenheim Foundation
informing me I had been
awarded my second
fellowship. With the good
graces of Zubin Mehta and
Ernest Fleischmann,
masters of my destiny as
a member of the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, I
was relieved of my
orchestral duties during
the Hollywood Bowl
season. Thus I was able
to go to Europe to work
and to view the latest
trends in music
concentrating in London
(the current musical
melting pot and showcase
par excellence), Oslo,
Norway, for the Festival
of Scandinavian Music
called Nordic Days, and
Warsaw, Poland, for its
prestigious Autumn
Festival. Over half the
Concerto was completed in
that summer and most of
the rest during the 72-73
season with the final
touches put on during a
month as Resident Scholar
at the Rockefeller
Foundation's Villa
Serbelloni in Bellagio,
Italy. So much for the
external and
environmental influences,
except perhaps to mention
the birds of Sussex in
the first movement, the
bells of Arhus (Denmark)
in the second movement
and the bells of Bellagio
at the end of the
Concerto. Primary in the
conception was the
personality of Miss
Golabek: she is a
wonderfully vital and
dynamic person and a real
virtuoso. Therefore, the
soloist in the Concerto
is truly the protagonist;
it is she (for once we
can do away with the
generic he) who unfolds
the character and intent
of the piece. The first
section is constructed in
the manner of a
recitative - completely
unmeasured - with letters
and numbers by which the
conductor signals the
orchestra for its
participation. This
allows the soloist the
freedom to interpret the
patterns and control the
flow and development of
the music. The Concerto
is actually in one
continuous movement but
with three large
divisions of sufficiently
contrasting character to
be called movements in
themselves. The first
'movement' is based on a
few timbral elements: 1)
a cluster of very low
pitches which at the
beginning are practically
inaudibly depressed, and
sustained silently by the
sostenuto pedal, which
causes sympathetic
vibrating pitches to ring
when strong notes are
struck; 2) a single
powerful note indicated
by a black note-head with
a line through it
indicating the strongest
possible sforzando; 3)
short figures of various
colors sometimes ominous,
sometimes as splashes of
light or as elements of
transition; 4) trills and
tremolos which are the
actual controlling
organic thread starting
as single axial tremolos
and gradually expanding
to trills of increasingly
larger and more powerful
scope. The 'movement'
begins in quiescent
repose but unceasingly
grows in energy and
tension as the stretching
of a string or rubber
band. When it can no
longer be restrained, it
bursts into the next
section. The second
'movement,' propelled by
the released tension, is
a brilliant virtuosic
display, which begins
with a long solo of wispy
percussion, later joined
in duet with the piano.
Not to be ignored, the
orchestra takes over
shooting the material
throughout all its
sections like a small
agile bird deftly
maneuvering through
nothing but air, while
the piano counterposes
moments of lyricism. The
orchestra reaches a
climax, thrusting us into
the third 'movement'
which begins with a
cadenza-like section for
the piano. This moves
gently into an expressive
section (expressive is
not a negative term to
me) in which duets are
formed with various
instruments. There are
fleeting glimpses of
remembrances past, as a
fragmented
recapitulation. One
glimpse is hazily
expressed by strings and
percussion in a moment of
simultaneous contrasting
levels of activity, a
technique of which I have
been fond and have
utilized in various
fixed-free relationships,
particularly in my
Percussion Concerto,
Contextures and Games:
Collage No. 1. The second
half of the third
'movement; is a large
coda - akin to those in
Beethoven - which brings
about another display of
virtuosity, this time
gutsy and driving,
raising the Concerto to a
final climax, the soloist
completing the fragmented
recapitulation concept as
well as the work with the
single-note sforzando and
low cluster from the very
opening of the first
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| Romances in F major and G major for Violin and Orchestra, op. 50, 40 Barenreiter
Flute, first oboe, second oboe, first bassoon, second bassoon, first horn, secon...(+)
Flute, first oboe, second
oboe, first bassoon,
second bassoon, first
horn, second horn (Flute,
1. Oboe, 2. Oboe, 1.
Bassoon, 2. Bassoon, 1.
Horn, 2. Horn) SKU:
BA.BA09026-65
Composed by Ludwig van
Beethoven. Edited by
Jonathan Del Mar. This
edition: urtext edition.
Folded. Barenreiter
Urtext. Wind set,
anthology. Opus 50, 40.
3/3/3/4/3/3/3 pages.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA09026_65. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA09026-65). ISBN
9790006540860. 32.5 x
25.5 cm inches. Key: F
major, g
major. Beethoven'sR
omancesare performed all
over the world, yet how
many conductors,
performers and listeners
are aware that op. 50
which was incidentally
composed before op. 40,
comes down to us in an
unfinished form? The
autograph score contains
little to no articulation
or dynamics and to the
present day the work has
existed only in highly
over-edited publications.
The performer has no way
of knowing what was
originally intended by
the composer.
Barenreiter's new
Urtext edition of opp. 50
and 40 offers the score
to op. 50 twice; the
first score reflects the
state of Beethoven's
autograph with editorial
markings clearly
indicated, the second
score has been edited
based on other works by
Beethoven from that
period. This manner of
publishing remains true
to the sources and at the
same time offers
musicians a reliable
transparent score for
performances.
In
addition to the Urtext
solo part, a second solo
part with fingering and
bowing by Detlef Mahn is
also included in the
piano reduction.
-
Piano reduction which
includes an Urtext solo
part as well as an
additional solo part with
fingering and bowing -
The score to op. 50
available in two
versions - Detailed
critical commentary
(Eng).
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| Chamber Music for/ Kammermusik für Violoncelli 12 [Conducteur et Parties séparées] EMB (Editio Musica Budapest)
2 or more Violoncelli SKU: BT.EMBZ14728 For 4 violoncellos. Compos...(+)
2 or more Violoncelli
SKU: BT.EMBZ14728
For 4
violoncellos.
Composed by Arpad
Peijtsik. EMB Chamber
Music for Violoncellos.
Educational Tool. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
2010. 50 pages. Editio
Musica Budapest
#EMBZ14728. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ14728).
Volume 12 in
the series contains works
by great composers
adapted for four cellos.
They all share a festive
mood. Beethoven's
variations on the theme
of the British nation
anthem 'God Save the
King' are followed by
'The Shepherds' Farewell'
from Berlioz' oratorio
The Childhood of Christ,
and three Christmas
pieces by Mendelssohn.
The excerpt from Wagner's
Parsifal - excellently
transcribed by Hermann
Jacobowsky at the end of
the 19th century - is
associated with Good
Friday, but because of
its sacred character its
mood blends with that of
the preceding
pieces.
Inhoud: 1. Beethoven, Ludwig
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farewell 3.
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Felix: 3 Christmas
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Berlioz, Hector: The
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Felix: 3 Christmas
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Richard - Jacobowsky,
Hermann: Aus dem
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Berlioz, Hector: The
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Felix: 3 Christmas
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Hermann: Aus dem
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Orchestra Coro SATB, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Clt, 2 Fg, 4 Cor, 2 Tr, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc, C...(+)
Orchestra Coro SATB, 2
Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Clt, 2 Fg, 4
Cor, 2 Tr, Timp, 2 Vl,
Va, Vc, Cb SKU:
CA.1039509 Composed
by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Edited by Sven Hiemke. 1x
10.395/21 flute 1, 1x
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10.39. Harmony parts.
Secular choral music. Set
of Orchestra Parts. Op.
112. Duration 8 minutes.
Carus Verlag #CV
10.395/09. Published by
Carus Verlag
(CA.1039509). ISBN
9790007245320. Language:
German. Beethoven's
Meeres Stille und
Gluckliche Fahrt (Calm
Sea and Prosperous
Voyage) op. 112 for
four-part mixed chorus
and symphony orchestra -
his setting of a pair of
poems by Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe - defies
straightforward
categorization, but can
best be described as a
choral ode. Beethoven in
fact never voyaged by
sea, but his composition,
premiered in 1815,
continues to surprise
even today. He depicted
in music the smooth
surface of the motionless
water and the oppressive
calm, which meant nothing
other than being
becalmed, a delayed
voyage, and short rations
in the era of sailing,
with the same intensity
as a freshening
increasing wind, with
which Aeolus, the God of
the winds, ultimately
enabled the longed-for
prosperous voyage to take
place. The composed
calmness of the
motionless sea is
conveyed in the low
register used throughout,
in which the chorus sings
the first poem
accompanied by washes of
pianissimo sounds on the
strings. There is a
surprising moment with
the musical portrayal of
the ungeheuere Weite
(immense breadth), at
which the
vocal-instrumental
writing suddenly
crescendos to forte and
unfolds into a texture of
over five octaves. By
contrast Gluckliche Fahrt
is written in
restlessly-compiled
meters, whose musical
setting in flowing
movement with diatonic
scale passages evokes
happy excitement and
confidence. The work was
dedicated to Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe, whom
Beethoven greatly admired
throughout his life. The
work has now been
published in a new
critical edition based on
the first printed edition
and the performance score
which Beethoven himself
checked and corrected.
Score and parts available
separately - see item
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