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Category Archives: piano solo
Hit and miss? – A purportedly wrong note in Beethoven’s Sonata op. 14 no. 2
For almost ten years now I’ve been working with Murray … Continue reading
Going down, coming up or on the up and up? – stumbling block in Erik Satie’s ‘2ème Gymnopédie’
At first sight Urtext editions of Satie’s piano music do … Continue reading
Posted in autograph, first edition, Gymnopédie (Satie), Monday Postings, piano solo, Satie, Erik, Urtext
Tagged correction, Gymnopédie, Satie
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Debussy: to finger or not to finger…? Why we are adding fingering in the “Études”
In summer 1915 in the solitude of Pourville, the small … Continue reading
Posted in Debussy, Claude, Douze Études (Debussy), Monday Postings, piano solo, Urtext
Tagged Chopin, Couperin, Debussy, Études, fingering, piano, Rameau
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How to drive the devil out of a waltz or: Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz for everybody?
It’s still ringing in your ears, this warhorse for orchestra … Continue reading
Posted in arrangement, Liszt, Franz, Mephisto Waltz (Liszt), Monday Postings, piano solo, versions
Tagged arrangements, Liszt, Mephisto Waltz, Meyendorff, versions
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On the lookout for the lost measure: Bach’s C-major Prelude from the Well-Tempered Clavier I
Those in the know among our readers will be aware … Continue reading
Curiosity pays off. The genesis of Maurice Ravel’s piano ‘Sonatine’
In 2011 when I began preparing a new edition of … Continue reading
Posted in genesis, Monday Postings, piano solo, Piano Sonatina (Ravel), Ravel, Maurice
Tagged Calvocoressi, competition, genesis, Ravel, Sonatina
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How an original Mozart A flat escaped from the dust. On the slow movement of the C- minor Piano Sonata K. 457
Very vividly I recall the Mozart sensation of the year … Continue reading
Posted in autograph, first edition, Monday Postings, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, piano solo, revision, Urtext, variant reading
Tagged facsimile, Mozart, piano sonata, variants
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“La dernière pensée musicale de Chopin” – a Sham?
Mystery swirls around Chopin’s Mazurka in f minor, op. post. … Continue reading
Posted in Chopin, Frédéric, Mazurka op. post. 68 nr. 4 (Chopin), Monday Postings, piano solo, sketches, versions
Tagged Chopin, Fontana, Franchomme, Mazurka, variants, versions
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Missing bass octave in Debussy’s Prélude “Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest”?
Whether the Pope is infallible is anybody’s guess, but composers … Continue reading
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How does Chopin’s Second Ballade end?
Many pianists are familiar with the problem that there are … Continue reading
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Tagged Ballade, Chopin, versions
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