London: Keith Prowse Music Publishing Co, Ltd. 1931. — 65 p. E by Edited and arranged by Ernest Haywood. Contents: Blue Danube Waltz, Voices of Spring, Wine, Woman and Soon, Artist's life, Morgenblätter, Thousand and One Nights, Wiener Blut.
London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1963. — 7 p. The Night Piece was composed in 1963 as a test piece for the first Leeds Piano Competition which was won by the seventeen-year-old pupil of Fanny Waterman, Michael Roll. The idea behind this composition was to put musicianship rather than mere virtuosity to the test. It is a quiet ternary design in B flat—very challenging in touch, legato...
New York: J. Fischer & Bro, 1925. — 5 p. Abram Chasins (1903–87) began his career as a pianist and composer but as broadcaster and writer soon became one of the best-known cultural commentators in the USA. His output of music for solo piano – recorded here complete for the first time – dates from his first years in the public eye, and although he made little attempt to promote...
New York: J. Fischer & Bro, 1925. — 4 p. Abram Chasins (1903–87) began his career as a pianist and composer but as broadcaster and writer soon became one of the best-known cultural commentators in the USA. His output of music for solo piano – recorded here complete for the first time – dates from his first years in the public eye, and although he made little attempt to promote...
New York: J. Fischer & Bro, 1925. — 4 p. Abram Chasins (1903–87) began his career as a pianist and composer but as broadcaster and writer soon became one of the best-known cultural commentators in the USA. His output of music for solo piano – recorded here complete for the first time – dates from his first years in the public eye, and although he made little attempt to promote...
Leipzig: D. Rahter, 1909. — 33 p. 10 pieces: Conte arabe, Histoire viennoise, Pastorale galante, Aux ombres de la forêt, L'elfe de rosée, Causerie de fleurs, Intermède grec, Vénitienne, Danse de l'épée Valse, ou "comme il vous plaira".
London: Augener Ltd. 1912. — 14 p. 3 pieces: Début et Sérénade, Tendresse, Burletta. Ede Poldini was a Hungarian composer of the late romantic / early contemporary period. Famous in Hungary for writing many operas, he became internationally famous when Fritz Kreisler transcribed his piano piece “La poupée valsante” for violin. Poldini is best known for his miniature piano...
New York: Charles F. Tretbar, 1903. — 26 p. Das Porträt, Mückenschwarm, Ein Geburtstagssträusschen, Die Uhr, Auf der Pussta, Herbstnacht, Flügellahmes Vögelein, Wenn die Linden blühen,Wolkenzug, Spielmannsweise Ede Poldini was a Hungarian composer of the late romantic / early contemporary period. Famous in Hungary for writing many operas, he became internationally famous when...
Boston: Boston Music Co, 1912. — 34 p. 6 pieces: Praeludium, Skuggornas ö, Saga, Mor sjunger, Svanen, Ringdans Selim Palmgren (1878-1951) During the first decades of the past century Selim Palmgren, a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni and Conrad Ansorge, was undoubtedly one of the most performed Nordic composers of piano music. His piano works, including hundreds of pieces and five...
Boston: The Arthur P. Schmidt Co., 1899. — 16 p. MacDowell's Forgotten Fairy Tales is a charming four movement work that depicts different fairy tales: Sung Outside a Prince's Door, Of a Tailor and a Bear, Beauty in the Rose Garden, From Dwarf Land
New York: Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, 1915. — 32 p. In Sleepy Hollow; On Tappan Zee (a Boat Song); Mid-October Afternoon (Reverie); Katrina's Waltz. The New York composer (Sidney) Eastwood Lane (1879-1951) is remembered for a series of piano suites that somehow provided a bridge between the music of MacDowell and Nevin and the jazz age, and Lane had a very quirky style of...
Moscou: Musiksektion d. Staatsverlages, 1927. — 11 p. Markian Frolov was a Soviet pianist, composer and teacher. He taught the piano at the Kiev Conservatory and he was a founder and the first director of the Sverdlovsk Conservatory (1934–7 and 1943–4) where he taught the piano and composition. Moderato, semplicatto in F minor, Agitato, fantastico in F♯ minor
London: Winthrop Rogers, 1920. — 24 p. It aims to depict the innocence of childhood. Quilter takes famous nursery rhymes and neatly links them together, creating the ultimate childhood piece. The overture is based on a music book by Walter Crane called The Baby’s Opera.
Sydney: A. Mellos, 2016. — 32 p. Aristea Mellos is a Greek-Australian composer of contemporary classical music whose compositional voice has been described as “unnerving and awe-inspiring” (Limelight Magazine 2020). Born on the island of Crete, she received her formative musical training in Sydney, where she was an avid chorister and also studied classical piano.
London: Oxford University Press, 1922. — 8 p. Son of the English artist Horace Mann Livens, Leo Livens was a virtuoso concert pianist and composer. He wrote mainly for his own instrument and his most celebrated works were based on nursery rhymes: Sing a Song of Sixpence and Little Polly Flinders. Together with his sister, Evangeline, Leo Livens (1896-1990) was a piano pupil of...
New York: J. Fischer & Bro, 1919. — 26 p. Eastwood Lane was an American composer who wrote piano suites and ballet music. His compositions influenced Bix Beiderbecke. Eastwood Lane was born in Brewerton, New York. The Crap Shooters (A Negro Dance), Around the Hall (A Dance Hall Ditty), A Gringo Tango, North of Boston (A Barn Dance), Powwow (An Indian Reminiscence)
Helsingfors: A. Apostol n.d. — 13 p. Vesper – 6 sound pictures for piano with motto by Jacob Tegengren, Op. 6 Carl Axel von Kothen (August 15th 1871 Hamina – July 7th 1927 Tammisaari) was a Finnish vocalist, music teacher and composer.
Moscou: P. Jurgenson, 1912. — 8 p. Yevgeny Ottovich Gunst was a Russian composer, pianist, music essayist, and pedagogue. He was the brother of architect Anatoly Gunst. Born in Moscow, emigrated to Tallinn in 1920 and later Paris, co-founded the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff in 1924 (but left in 1931 due to differences with Rachmaninov), planned to move to the United States...
Paris: J. Hamelle Éditeur, 1885. — 30 p. Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher. His influence as a teacher, in particular, was considerable. He was a co-founder of the Schola Cantorum de Paris and also taught at the Paris Conservatoire. 5 movements: Harmonie Le Chant des Bruyères, Danses rythmiques, Plein Air, Harmonie Le Poème des montagnes is...
London: Chappel&Co, 1919. — 15 p. Eric Francis Harrison Coates (27 August 1886 – 21 December 1957) was an English composer of light music and, early in his career, a leading violist. In a Country Lane On the Edge of the Lake At the Dance
Cracovie: A. Piwarski&Co, 1911. — 17 p. Franciszek Ksawery Brzezinski was a Polish composer. Brzezinski had piano lessons with Jan Kleczyński. He studied law in Tartu and worked until 1903 as a lawyer. He then studied music in Paris and at the Conservatory in Leipzig. Since 1916, he lived as a composer in Warsaw. He composed in addition to late romantic piano works, a piano...
Buenos Aires: Edición de la Sociedad Nacional de Música, 1916. — 38 p. Celestino Piaggio (1886-1931) was an Argentine Composer. Piaggio was born in Concordia, Argentina. He studied at the Schola Cantorum, Paris. He died in Buenos Aires, aged 44.
Paris: Editions Maurice Senart, 1921. — 10 p. Michel-Maurice Lévy was a French composer, best known for the opera Le Cloître. Lévy, Michel-Maurice, French composer; b. Ville-d’Avray, June 28, 1883; d. Paris, Jan. 24, 1965. He studied at the Paris Cons. with Lavignac and Leroux.
Helsingfors: Axel E. Lindgren, n.d. — 8 p. Oskar Merikanto was a Finnish composer, music critic, pianist, and organist. As a composer, Merikanto was primarily a miniaturist, and his extensive œuvre includes songs and piano pieces. Of the latter, he is best remembered for: Summer Evening Waltz, Romance, Summer Evening Idyll, Valse lente, and Idyll.
New York: Carl Fischer, 1948. — 29 p. Louise Talma (1906–1996) composed in a distinctive, often neo-Classical style. She wrote many vocal pieces, including song cycles and the first American opera by a woman to be staged at a major European opera house. In all, Talma composed more than 40 significant works in her lifetime. She also became the first American to teach at the...
New York: Carl Fischer, 1918. — 56 p. 10 pieces: No Man's Land, The Sower of Despair, The Orient in Flanders, The Wrath of the Despoiled, Night Brooding over the Battlefield, A Dirge of the Trenches, Song Behind the Lines, The Battle, Army at Prayer, Dance of the Dead The ten brief Poems of 1917, Ornstein’s Op 41, are dedicated to an outstanding pianist-composer, Leopold...
Warsawa: Gebethner and Wolff, 1926. — 13 p. 8 pieces: Moderato, Moderato, Tranquillo, Moderato, leggiero, Adagio, Andante, Allegro moderato, Andante moderato. Rogowski was greatly influenced by the music of Claude Debussy, but also by Polish, French, Bosnian, etc. popular idioms. He used whole-tone scales, pentatonic scales, and various modes, such as the one he called Slavic:...
Paris: B. Roudanez, Éditeur 1916. — 11 p. Rogowski Ludomir Michał, *3 X 1881 Lublin, †13 III 1954 Dubrovnik, Polish composer and conductor. His interest in music was influenced by his parents who were amateur musicians – his mother, Karolina played the piano and his father, Dominik played the violin. When he was just seven years old he tried to write his first pieces. He...
Paris: B. Roudanez, 1916. — 8 p. Rogowski, Ludomir (Michal) , Polish composer and conductor; b. Lublin, Oct. 3, 1881; d. Dubrovnik, March 14, 1954. He was a student of Nosk-owski (composition) and Mlynarski (conducting) at the Warsaw Cons., and then of Nikisch and Riemann in Leipzig, hi 1909 he went to Vilnius as director of the Organ School. He also founded the Vilnius Sym....
Paris: J. Hamelle , Éditeur 1890. — 14 p. Vincent d'Indy was a French Composer who lived from 1851-1931. He studied under César Frank, and the two took inspiration from German music. He founded his own music conservatory, the School Cantorum de Paris, and taught many famous composers such as Magnard, Roussel, Milhaud, and Satie, the latter of which stated that his experience...
Unknow source. 22 p. Tatyana Georgievna Smirnova (nee Schulz ; March 30, 1940, Leningrad - June 06, 2018, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian composer , pianist , teacher , musical and public figure and educator . Member of the Union of Composers of the USSR / Russia (1969), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1987), Professor of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (1994). Diploma...
Москва: Музыка, 1976. — 43 c. Разорёнов Сергей Алексеевич — русский советский композитор — родился 31.1.1909 года в Петербурге. Окончил Московскую консерваторию по композиции у Н.Мясковского. Среди его произведений: симфония, «Фантазия на славянские темы» для симфонического оркестра, симфония-легенда памяти Зои Космодемьянской, симфоническая поэма «1905 год»; концерт для...
Москва: Советский композитор, 1971. — 52 c. Двенадцать прелюдий для фортепиано предназначаются для концертного исполнения. Это ряд контрастных по своему характеру пьес, дополняющих друг друга и образующих единый цикл. Вместе с тем автором предусмотрена возможность отдельного исполнения каждой прелюдии (см. примечания к прелюдиям №№ 2; 4 и 5). Расположены прелюдии в порядке...
Moscow: P. Jurgenson, 1891. — 22 p. Andante (C minor) Molto animato (F minor) Presto agitato (A♭ major) Animato (F major) Andantino (B♭ minor) Sostenuto (D♭ major) Władysław Pachulski (c. 1855 – 1919) was a Polish violinist, pianist and amateur composer who was the secretary to and later son-in-law of Nadezhda von Meck, the patroness for 13 years of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky....
Moscou: P. Jurgenson, 1906. — 12 p. Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov (Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Ре́биков, Vladi'mir Iva'novič Re'bikov; born May 31 [OS May 19] 1866 - Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia — died October 1, 1920 - Yalta, Crimea) was a late romantic 20th-century Russian composer and pianist. Early works suggest the influence of Peter Tchaikovsky. He wrote lyrical piano...