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Classical Favorites for Piano BOOK I
Selected and Edited by MATTHEW SOUKOTTA
Classical Favorites for Piano BOOK I
Piano Pieces from Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Impressionist.
Selected and Edited by MATTHEW SOUKOTTA
Contents Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu Raindrop Prelude Waltz in A Major Nocturne in D Major Minute Waltz Ballade No. III Etude Op. 10 No. 9 Waltz in B minor Nocturne in E Major Liszt Consolations No. II Consolations No. III Liebestraum No. III Ave Maria (arr. Liszt) Beethoven Sonata No. 8 Op. 13 “Pathétique” J.S Bach Invention No. 4 Invention No. 13 Schumann Träumerei Carnaval No. 12 “Chopin” Von fremden Ländern und Menschen Clara Schumann Notturno Debussy Clair de Lune Rêverie Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum Ravel Ondine Lola Astanova Inspirit Mendelssohn Rondo Capriccioso
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Section One
Frédéric François Chopin As a pianist, Chopin was unique in acquiring a reputation of the highest order on the basis of a minimum of public appearances—few more than 30 in the course of his lifetime. His original and sensitive approach to the keyboard allowed him to exploit all the resources of the piano of his day. He was inexhaustible in discovering colorful new passagework and technical figures; he understood as no one before him the true nature of the piano as an expressive instrument, and he was able to write music that is bound up with the instrument for which it was conceived and which cannot be imagined apart from it. His innovations in fingering, his use of the pedals, and his general treatment of the keyboard form a milestone in the history of the piano, and his works set a standard for the instrument that is recognized as unsurpassable. Chopin’s works for solo piano include about 61 mazurkas, 16 polonaises, 26 preludes, 27 études, 21 nocturnes, 20 waltzes, 3 sonatas, 4 ballades, 4 scherzos, 4 impromptus, and many individual pieces—such as the Barcarolle, Opus 60 (1846); the Fantasia, Opus 49 (1841); and the Berceuse, Opus 57 (1845)—as well as 17 Polish songs.
Fantasie-Impromptu Frédéric Chopin
The Fantaisie-Impromptu was written in 1834 , as were the Four Mazurkas (Op. 17) and the Grande valse brillante in E♭ major (Op. 18), but unlike these other works, Chopin never published the Fantaisie-Impromptu.Instead, Julian Fontana published it posthumously, along with other w altzes Opp. 69 and 70. It is unknown why Chopin did not release the Fantaisie-Impromptu. James Huneker called parts of it "mawkish" and "without nobility" Ernst Oster conducted a technical examination of the piece which hints at similarities between the Fantaisie-Impromptu and Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata (Quasi una fantasia), which he cites as the reason for Chopin's reluctance to publish the piece. It is also recognized that it resembles the Impromptu in E♭ major, Op. 89 composed by Ignaz Moscheles
The mystery may have been solved in 1960 when pianist Arthur Rubinstein acquired the "Album of the Baroness d'Este" which had been sold at auction in Paris. The album contained a manuscript of the Fantaisie-Impromptu in Chopin's own hand, dated 1835, stating on the title page in French "Composed for the Baroness d'Este by Frédéric Chopin". The facts of its authenticity having been "guaranteed by the French authorities" and that it shows "a delicate care for detail" and "many improvements in harmony and style" in comparison to the previously published version, Rubinstein considered absolute proof that it is the finished work. In his preface to the "Rubinstein Edition", published by G. Schirmer, Inc. in 1962, Rubinstein surmises that the words "Composed for" in place of a dedication imply that Chopin received a paid commission for the work, so he had actually sold it to the Baroness.
and published in 1834, the same year Chopin composed his Fantasie-Impromptu.
Allegro agitato ( = 150)
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Largo ( = 50)
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Moderato cantabile ( = 90)
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Raindrop Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 Frédéric Chopin
Some, though not all, of Op. 28 was written during Chopin and George Sand's stay at a monastery in Valldemossa, Mallorca in 1838. In her Histoire de ma vie, Sand related how one evening she and her son Maurice, returning from Palma in a terrible rainstorm, found a distraught Chopin who exclaimed, "Ah! I knew well that you were dead." While playing his piano he had a dream:
He saw himself drowned in a lake. Heavy drops of icy water fell in a regular rhythm on his breast, and when I made him listen to the sound of the drops of water indeed falling in rhythm on the roof, he denied having heard it. He was even angry that I should interpret this in terms of imitative sounds. He protested with all his might – and he was right to – against the childishness of such aural imitations. His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds.
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Raindrop Prelude
Waltz in A♭ Major Op. 69 No. 1 Frédéric Chopin
The waltz is in A-flat major, with a time signature of 3/4. The tempo is marked at tempo di valse, or a waltz tempo. The beginning theme, marked con espressione, is melancholic and nostalgic, and reaches a small high point with a fast flourish. The second part is marked sempre delicatissimo, or con anima in other versions. It is somewhat more cheerful than the previous theme, but soon gives way to the same first theme. After a second rendition of the first theme is a third theme, marked as dolce, the most playful theme. It leads to another theme with a series of ascending double-stops. This fourth theme is marked poco a poco crescendo, with other editions adding ed appassionato. This leads back to the third, playful theme, and returns to the beginning with a da capo al fin.
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con espressione
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Waltz in A♭ Major
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simile
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Lento
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più 3
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a tempo
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con anima
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dolce rit.
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a tempo
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ten. 3
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animato
a tempo ten.
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3 ten.
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ten. 3
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Waltz in A♭ Major
a tempo 3 ten. simile
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ten.
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cresc.
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con espressione
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ten.
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Tempo I
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Nocturne in D♭ Major Op. 27, No. 2
Frédéric Chopin
Lento sostenuto
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Nocturne in D♭ Major
Minute Waltz Frédéric Chopin
leggiero Molto vivace.
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Minute Waltz
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Minute Waltz
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Minute Waltz
Ballade No. III in A♭ Major Frédéric Chopin The ballade opens with a lengthy introduction marked dolce. The introduction is thematically unrelated to a majority of the piece but is repeated at the close and climax of the work. Following the introduction, Chopin introduces a new theme in a section with the performance direction mezza voce; this theme consists of repeated Cs in two broken octaves in the right hand. This theme reoccurs three times in the ballade, twice on C and once on A♭ The mezza voce section soon develops into a furious F minor chordal section and once again returns to A♭. The mezza voce section is repeated, following by a new theme consisting of right hand sixteenth-note leggiero runs. The following return of the broken octave theme is transposed from C to A♭ (the repeated Cs now being A♭s). The key signature then shifts to C♯ minor. The original "B" theme is then developed, this time using rapid, chromatic left-hand runs in the left hand under large chords in the right. This theme builds to a climax through rapid repetition of broken G♯ octaves (referencing the mezza voce theme) with fragments of the "C" theme in the left hand.
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Ballade No. III in A♭ Major
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Ballade No. III in A♭ Major
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dim.
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dim.
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sostenuto
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Ballade No. III in A♭ Major
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mezza voce
legato
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Ballade No. III in A♭ Major
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Ballade No. III in A♭ Major
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sotto voce
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Ballade No. III in A♭ Major
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Ballade No. III in A♭ Major
Etude Op.10 No. 9 in F Minor
Frédéric Chopin
Allegro, molto agitato
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a tempo segue
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ritard.
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Etude Op.10 No. 9 in F Minor
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sempre
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stretto
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loco
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appassionato
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Etude Op.10 No. 9 in F Minor
a tempo 5 agitato sempre poco rallent.
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sotto voce
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Etude Op.10 No. 9 in F Minor
Waltz in B Minor Op. 69 No.2
rit. dim. a tempo rit. cresc. a tempo con anima
Frédéric Chopin
Moderato
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a tempo
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rit.
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a tempo
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rit.
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cresc.
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dim.
dolce
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a tempo
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a tempo con anima
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rit.
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a tempo
rit.
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a tempo
rit.
calando
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Waltz in B Minor
Nocturne in E ♭ Major Op. 9, No. 2
Frédéric Chopin
Andante
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espress. dolce
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a tempo 4
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rallent. smorz.
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Nocturne in E ♭ Major
Section Two
Franz Liszt Liszt was not only the greatest piano virtuoso of his time but also a composer of enormous originality and a principal figure in the Romantic movement. As a composer he radically extended the technique of piano writing, giving the instrument not only brilliance but a full and rich, almost orchestral sound. Most of his compositions bear titles and are representations of some natural scene or of some poetic idea or work of literature or art. Liszt extended the harmonic language of his time, even in his earlier works, and his later development of chromatic harmony helped lead eventually to the breakdown of tonality and ultimately to the atonal music of the 20th century. Liszt also invented the symphonic poem for orchestra and the method of “transformation of themes,” by which one or two themes in different forms can provide the basis for an entire work—a principle from which Wagner derived his system of so-called leitmotifs in his operas. As a pianist Liszt was the first to give complete solo recitals, and he did a great deal to encourage the performance of music by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Wagner, and Robert Schumann by transcribing their works for piano and playing them in his concerts at a time when they were insufficiently appreciated. He also helped younger composers, including Edvard Grieg, Mily Balakirev, Aleksandr Borodin, and Claude Debussy, and he taught a number of pupils who themselves became famous virtuosos. Apart from his more than 700 compositions, Liszt was the author of books on Frédéric Chopin, Hungarian Roma music, Wagner’s Lohengrin and Tannhäuser, John Field’s nocturnes, the lieder of Robert Franz, and the Goethe Foundation in Weimar. His published essays and correspondence fill many volumes. A controversial figure in his time, he was attacked for his innovations, and his rivals were jealous of his brilliance and panache. For a long time he was regarded merely as a superficial composer of brilliant trifles, but in recent years his true stature has been seen more clearly as that of a composer who revolutionized the music of his time and anticipated numerous later developments. As Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein said, “Liszt has flung his spear far into the future.”
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Consolations No. II Franz Liszt
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smorz.
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cantando espressivo
Un poco più mosso
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cantando
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appassionato
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poco riten. accentuato ed espressivo assai smorz. smorz. rinforz.
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Consolation No. II
Consolations No. III Franz Liszt
Lento placido
sempre legatissimo
cantando
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dolcissimo
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smorzando
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ritard.
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Consolations No. III
Liebestraum No. 3
S. 541/3
Franz Liszt Liebesträume (German for Dreams of Love) is a set of three solo piano works (S.541/R.211) by Franz Liszt, published in 1850. Originally the three Liebesträume were conceived as lieder after poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand Freiligrath. In 1850, two versions appeared simultaneously as a set of songs for high voice and piano, and as transcriptions for piano two-hands. Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat major is the last of the three that Liszt wrote and the most popular. It can be considered as split into three sections, each divided by a fast cadenza requiring dexterous finger work and a very high degree of technical ability.
Poco allegro, con affetto
sempre
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dolce cantando
Liebestraum No. 3
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ten.
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poco cresc. ed agitato
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Liebestraum No. 3
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più animato con passione
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sempre stringendo
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affrettando
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dim.
leggiero
Tempo primo
dolce armonioso
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più smorz. e rit.
Liebestraum No. 3
AVE MARIA .
Lied von Franz Schubert
Für das Pianoforte übertragen von
Franz Liszt
dol : molto espress : e legato
riten :
- smorz : molto
gli accompagnamenti sempre dolciss :
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A
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mild!
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o
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radolcendo
Mut
ein bittend Kind!
smorz :
ter hör'
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cresc : ed accelerando
a!
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molto dim :
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loco
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a!
loco
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loco
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loco
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wir
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hin
auf
Wenn
fleckt!
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loco
loco
loco
loco
dein Schutz he sin
ken
loco
zum
loco
Schlaf,
und uns
loco
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weich
der har
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ken.
uns
dolciss :
te Fels
loco
dün
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5 1 2
deckt,
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loco 4 2
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4 2
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loco 1
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loco
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in
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chelst, Rosendüf
loco
loco loco
loco
loco
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3
più cresc :
sempre stacc :
die
Ave Maria
Fel senkluft.
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ser dumpfen
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loco loco loco loco
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Fle
hen,
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loco loco loco
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dim :
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Ave Maria
loco
leggeriss:
loco
3 2
dol:
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leggeriss:
ve
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loco loco smorz :
ri
a!
accelerando e cresc : molto
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non troppo presto
dol:
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Section Three
Ludwig van Beethoven Widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived, Ludwig van Beethoven dominates a period of musical history as no one else before or since. Rooted in the Classical traditions of Joseph Haydn and Mozart, his art reaches out to encompassthe new spirit of humanism and incipientnationalism expressed in the works of Goethe and Friedrich von Schiller, his elder contemporaries in the world of literature; the stringently redefined moralimperatives of Kant; and the ideals of the French Revolution, with its passionate concern for the freedom and dignity of the individual. He revealed more vividly than any of his predecessors the power of music to convey a philosophy of life without the aid of a spoken text; and in certain of his compositions is to be found the strongest assertion of the human will in all music, if not in all art. Though not himself a Romantic, he became the fountainhead of much that characterized the work of the Romantics who followed him, especially in his ideal of program or illustrative music, which he defined in connection with his Sixth (Pastoral) Symphony as “more an expression of emotion than painting.”
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The work is commonly named Pathétique due to the tragic and expressive nature of the music. The piece features extreme dynamics and pitch as well as virtuosity, which was very forward-looking for its time. This sonata is often described as being Classic Romantic. This style of composition contrasted with the balanced phrasing of Mozart and Haydn’s music. The term sonata form relates to the structure of the composition.
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Section Four
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach. He is a composer of the Baroque era, the most celebrated member of a large family of north German musicians. Although he was admired by his contemporaries primarily as an outstanding harpsichordist, organist, and expert on organ building, Bach is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time and is celebrated as the creator of the Brandenburg Concertos, The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Mass in B Minor, and numerous other masterpieces of church and instrumental music.
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Section Five
Robert and Clara Schumann Robert Schumann is unique by virtue of being the only great composer who was also a great critic. His contributions to the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), the periodical he founded in 1834, made him far better known originally as a writer than composer. It also gave him a platform from which he could champion the Romantic ideas that informed his own works and recognize the geniuses of his time, including Chopin, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Franz Liszt. Clara was one of the most famous pianists and acclaimed touring musicians in Europe at a time when women of her class were rarely encouraged to pursue careers outside the home. She was also a composer of no small talent, though her family commitments and touring schedule kept her from developing her compositional gifts as fully as she might have. The songs that she did compose with Robert’s encouragement show great promise, however. During this lecture series you will hear two of Clara’s songs and one of her piano works.
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Kinderszenen, No.7 Op.15 "Träumerei" Robert Schumann
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Von fremden Ländern und Menschen From Scenes From Childhood, Op. 15, No. 1 Robert Schumann
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Section Six
Claude Debussy Claude Debussy, in full Achille-Claude Debussy, (born August 22, 1862, SaintGermain-en-Laye, France—died March 25, 1918, Paris), French composer whose works were a seminal force in the music of the 20th century. He developed a highly original system of harmony and musical structure that expressed in many respects the ideals to which the Impressionist and Symbolist painters and writers of his time aspired. His major works include Clair de lune (“Moonlight,” in Suite bergamasque, 1890–1905), Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1894; Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), the opera Pelléas et Mélisande (1902), and La Mer (1905; “The Sea”). Debussy …(100 of 1916 words)
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Claude Debussy ______________________________________ Clair de lune, meaning moonlight, was written by the Impressionist French composer Claude Debussy. The piece is part of the four-movement work Suite Bergamasque. Clair de lune takes its title from an atmospheric poem by the French poet Paul Verlaine which depicts the soul as somewhere full of music ‘in a minor key’ where birds are i nspired to sing by the sad and beautiful light of the moon. Suite Bergamasque is one of a number of works by Debussy and his French contemporaries that paid homage to the “style ancien” (old style), which referred to the French Baroque period in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
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Section Seven
Maurice Ravel Ravel studied at the Conservatoire until his early 20s, during which time he composed some of his most renowned works, including the Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess; 1899); the Jeux d'eau (1901), also known as "Fountains" or "Playing Water," a piece that Ravel dedicated to Fauré; the String Quartet (1903), which is played in F major and follows four movements; the Sonatine (circa 1904), for the solo piano; the Miroirs (1905); and the Gaspard de la nuit (1908).
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Inspirit
Lola Astanova
All Places are temporary places. Inspirit is the title of the original contemplative composition, composed by Lola Astanova Since her Carnegie debut, Lola has given countless concerts across country with the leading American ensembles, including her notable collaboration with the All-Star Orchestra. Their Visions of New York documentary, featuring Lola’s performance of Gershwin’s famed Rhapsody in Blue received the 2016 EMMY® Award.
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