PIANO
CLASSIQUE

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.

Piano - difficult

SKU: HL.49045865

For Piano. Composed by Charles Koechlin. Edited by Otfrid Nies. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Piano Solo. Classical. Softcover. Composed 1907. Op. 33. 20 pages. Duration 720 seconds. Schott Music #ED20779. Published by Schott Music (HL.49045865).

ISBN 9790001170710. UPC: 888680784263. 9.0x12.0x0.097 inches.

This first print is a rarity: the highly virtuoso, evocative 'Nocturne' owes its creation to an instrument that has only survived as a museum piece. Gustave Lyon, the director of the French instrument maker Pleyel, commissioned Charles Koechlin as well as several other French composers (such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel) to write works for the 'harpe chromatique' developed by him around 1900. In contrast to the common pedal harp, the chromatic harp allows for an unlimited modulatory range. Nevertheless, the instrument did not gain much acceptance and remained exotic. Koechlin was aware of the difficulty of introducing and establishing new instruments. He therefore, from the very beginning, had the piano as an alternative of equal value in mind when writing his Nocturne.

Piano SKU: HU.HN244 Composed by Robert Schumann. Edited by Ernst Herttrich. Piano Solo, Piano and Keyboard, Repertoire, Solos. Davidsbundlertanze Op. 6. Classical, Romantic. Softcover Book. 60 pages. G. Henle #HN244. Published by G. Henle (HU.HN244).