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Category Archives: Monday Postings
The “Creation” starting from scratch: Joseph Haydn’s sketches in the Complete Edition
It is probably well enough known that in the G. … Continue reading
Posted in chorus + orchestra, Creation (Haydn), genesis, Haydn, Joseph, Monday Postings, sketches
Tagged Complete Edition, Creation, facsimile, genesis, Haydn, sketch
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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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How the (cradle) song ends: what is the final tone of Fauré’s Berceuse?
Gabriel Fauré’s Berceuse op. 16, a captivating miniature for violin … Continue reading
Posted in Berceuse op. 16 (Fauré), Fauré, Gabriel, first edition, Monday Postings, notation, piano + violin
Tagged Berceuse, Fauré, harmonics, notation, variants
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So, how much bass do you want? Beethoven’s Sextet Op. 81b
Wouldn’t you wonder, too, if you saw a sextet on … Continue reading
“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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Sometimes you have to dig deeper! Or: What the violist should really play in Hoffmeister’s concerto.
Most violists groan whenever the names Hoffmeister and Stamitz are … Continue reading
Posted in articulation, copy, dynamics, Hoffmeister, Franz Anton, Monday Postings, piano + viola, Urtext, versions, Viola Concerto (Hoffmeister)
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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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Alta Viola – Twice is better
Descriptions of musical instruments in older musical prints and manuscripts … Continue reading
Posted in Hummel, Johann Nepomuk, Monday Postings, viola
Tagged Hummel, instrument, instrumentation, viola
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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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