Romantic. The decisive role that Norwegian folk music played for Edvard Grieg can be felt in almost all of his works. For his Norwegian Dancesop. 35, presented here in an Urtext edition, Grieg took old folk tunes from a collection published by the musician and researcher Ludvig Mathias Lindeman and arranged them for piano four hands in 1880. A few years later, Grieg also made the two-hand version presented here. For this Henle Urtext edition, all the extant autographs in the Grieg Archive in Berg...
Grieg's incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's drama "Peer Gynt" contains some of his best-known compositions, such as "Morning mood" and "In the hall of the Mountain King". Grieg later extracted the most beautiful pieces to form two orchestral suites and arranged himself these versions for piano solo and piano four-hands. There was a surprise in store for Henle when preparing their Urtext edition. In the autograph and the first print run, the second suite contained another movement, the "Dance of t...
Contents: 6 Piano Pieces Op.52; Stimmungen Op.73; 3 Posthumous Pieces; 4 Pieces Op.1; Poetic Tone Pictures Op.3; 4 Humoresques Op.; Concerto in A min Op.16 (solo part only, with some orchestral cues); Pictures from Life in the Country Op.19; Ballade in Gmin Op.24; 5 Album Leaves Op.28; Improvisations on Norwegian Folk Tunes Op.29 Folksongs Op.41.
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Romantic. With his 66 Lyric Pieces, Edvard Grieg created a multifacted treasury of piano miniatures and character pieces. Many have become piano classics, none more so than The Wedding at Troldhaugen, which Henle publishers offers here in a separate edition. In this boisterous piece Grieg recalls a glittering celebration at the Villa Troldhaugen on the occasion of his silver wedding, something which attracted hundreds of guests and well-wishers. The fingerings by Norwegian Grieg specialist Einar ...
20th Century. Roman Sketches, Op. 7, is one of 20th-century composer Charles Griffes's most popular works. This piano suite of four short pieces, written between 1915 and 1916, illustrates Griffes's evolving tastes in incorporating modern devices into his compositions. Filled with many memorable, evocative, and pianistically satisfying moments, the pieces require power, agility, and finesse, as well as musical sensitivity. The suite begins with "The White Peacock," a sensuous depiction of the exo...
Whether it's young beginners or piano lovers who want to refresh their skills - no budding pianist will be able to resist the charm of these "Catchy Tunes." But watch out! There's a distinct possibility that these tunes might grab your ear and not let go! The 18 pieces truly are "catchy" and even a first run-through will get impatient fingers twitching. The pieces are ideal for all fingers and ears, yet make more than simplistic technical demands on the performers. Stylistically, the anthology - ...
Note-for-note keyboard transcriptions for 31 songs as performed by the famed jazz pianist who composed the songs and themes for the popular Peanuts animated cartoons. Includes: • Autumn Leaves • Blues For Peanuts • Calling Dr. Funk • Cast Your Fate To The Wind • Charlie Brown Theme • Christmas Is Coming • Christmas Time Is Here • A Day In The Life Of A Fool (Manha De Carnaval) • Days Of Win...
Each volume in the Jazz Piano Solos Series features exciting, rich new arrangements with chord names of classic songs. This edition features 24 favorites from Guaraldi including his beloved favorites from the Peanuts TV specials. It includes 24 songs in all, including: Blues for Peanuts Calling Dr. Funk Cast Your Fate to the Wind Charlie Brown Theme Charlie's Blues Christmas Is Coming A Day in the Life of a Fool (Manha De Carnaval) Django El Matador Fenwyck's Farfel Ginza Samba The Gre...
Gurdjieff, born in Kaukasus at the boundary between Armenia and Turkey, developed a philosophical apprenticeship that melds the esoteric knowledge of the East and the scientific thinking of the West. As he traveled many years through Asia and the East, he gathered and recorded melody and ritual dances. His friend and student Thomas de Hartmann processed these to piano pieces.
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Gurdjieff, born in Kaukasus at the boundary between Armenia and Turkey, developed a philosophical apprenticeship that melds the esoteric knowledge of the East and the scientific thinking of the West. As he traveled many years through Asia and the East, he gathered and recorded melody and ritual dances. His friend and student Thomas de Hartmann processed these to piano pieces.
Category: Piano Composer Folios Item: 025349 Grade: Price: $31.95 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days