Piano
SKU:
BR.EB-9355
Urtext. Composed
by Eusebius Mandyczewski.
Edited by Dietmar
Friesenegger. Solo
instruments; stapled.
Edition Breitkopf. Music
pedagogy; Romantic;
Late-romantic. Score. 28
pages. Duration 20'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #EB
9355. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EB-9355).
ISBN
9790004188194. 9 x 12
inches.
Little
Cadenzas, Canons and
Preludes for Pianoforte,
an album of 36 piano
miniatures in all keys of
the circle of fifths and
in church modes, as well
as two preludes by
Eusebius Mandyczewski
(1857-1929) that modulate
through all keys, are
presented here for the
first time in print.
Mandyczewski, who went
down in music history as
a Brahms friend, editor
and archivist of the
Vienna Musikverein,
composed numerous vocal
and piano works,
including twelve Orthodox
liturgies and two cycles
of variations on themes
by George Frideric
Handel. The album, a
birthday present from the
composer to his
twelve-year-old daughter
Virginia, was written in
the middle of the First
World War and was not
premiered publicly until
a century later - after
the manuscript was found
in a Ukrainian library -
at the Mandyczewski
Festival in Chernivtsi
(Ukraine) in 2017.
Mandyczewski shows
himself here as a master
of the small form and
counterpoint, but also as
a demanding teacher - and
so the pieces, once
reserved for his
daughter, will now be
made accessible to a
wider circle of young
musicians to enjoy.
Eusebius-Mandyczewski
