Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25

Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25
Author: Felix Mendelssohn
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1996-02-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457475467

Expertly arranged Piano Duet by Felix Mendelssohn from the Kalmus Edition series. This Advanced Piano Duet (2 Pianos, 4 Hands) is from the Romantic era. 2 copies are required for performance.

Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36

Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36
Author: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre:
ISBN:

This is a newly edited and engraved edition: this new edition is based on the most authoritative early publications; mistakes and misprints from the old editions are corrected; missing technical markings and other inconsistencies have been resolved; all texts, titles and dates are carefully checked with Grove's Music Dictionary; the new layout offers more comfortable reading; increased staff size will help to make the score more legible on music stands, tablets or other digital media. Now, this new edition finally offers musicians the opportunity to fully enjoy this beautiful piece.

Andante and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14

Andante and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14
Author: Felix Mendelssohn
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2005-05-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457437295

A complete and informative performance-oriented edition of this sparkling Mendelssohn work. Detailed performance and background notes are also provided. A 'must' for all serious piano students!

Structural Novelty and Tradition in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto

Structural Novelty and Tradition in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto
Author: Stephan D. Lindeman
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781576470008

Lindeman, a musicologist, traces and defines the historical development of the concerto form as it passed from Mozart to succeeding generations. He then assesses Beethoven's contributions, and examines the classical model of the form in the early 19th century by overviewing several early romantic composers' works. Subsequent chapters analyze and assess the responses of five precursers of Schumann, whose work offers a synthesis of radical experiments and traditional tenets. He concludes by suggesting that concertos of Lizst offer a road into further developments of the genre in the second half of the century. Illustrated with bandw portraits of composers and excerpts from musical scores. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto

The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto
Author: Simon P. Keefe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2005-10-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521834834

A rare volume dedicated entirely to scholarship on the genre of the concerto.

The Violin Conspiracy

The Violin Conspiracy
Author: Brendan Slocumb
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 059331543X

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world. “I loved The Violin Conspiracy for exactly the same reasons I loved The Queen’s Gambit: a surprising, beautifully rendered underdog hero I cared about deeply and a fascinating, cutthroat world I knew nothing about—in this case, classical music.” —Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and Hour of the Witch Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music. When he discovers that his beat-up, family fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, all his dreams suddenly seem within reach, and together, Ray and his violin take the world by storm. But on the eve of the renowned and cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition—the Olympics of classical music—the violin is stolen, a ransom note for five million dollars left in its place. Without it, Ray feels like he's lost a piece of himself. As the competition approaches, Ray must not only reclaim his precious violin, but prove to himself—and the world—that no matter the outcome, there has always been a truly great musician within him.

Concerto No. 1 in E Minor (Two-Piano Score)

Concerto No. 1 in E Minor (Two-Piano Score)
Author: Frederic Chopin
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2018-10-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780342600052

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Schumann and His World

Schumann and His World
Author: R. Larry Todd
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1400863864

We know Robert Schumann in many ways: as a visionary composer, a seasoned journalist, a cultured man of letters, and a genius who, having passed his mantle on to the young Brahms, succumbed to mental illness in 1856. Drawing on recent pathbreaking research, this collection offers new perspectives on this seminal nineteenth-century figure. In Part I, Leon Botstein and Michael P. Steinberg assess Schumann's efforts to place music at the center of German culture, in public and private sectors. Bernhard R. Appel offers a probing source study of one of Schumann's most personal works, the Album für die Jugend, Op. 68, while John Daverio considers the generic identity of Das Paradies und die Peri, and Jon W. Finson reexamines the first version of the Eichendorff Liederkreis. Gerd Nauhaus investigates Schumann's approach to the symphonic finale, and R. Larry Todd considers the intractable issue of quotations and allusions in Schumann's music. Part II presents letters and memoirs, including unpublished correspondence between Clara Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. In Part III, conflicting critical views of Schumann are juxtaposed. Some of these sources are translated into English for the first time. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Mendelssohn Essays

Mendelssohn Essays
Author: R. Larry Todd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135866694

When R. Larry Todd’s biography, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, appeared in 2003, it won acclaim from several critics as a definitive biography. In researching Mendelssohn’s life over the last two and a half decades, Todd uncovered much new information about the composer and his music, his family and his peers, and his complex reception history. Now, as we approach the 2009 bicentenary of Mendelssohn’s birth, the author has chosen and compiled fifteen essays written between 1980 and 2005, including five previously unpublished, that examine several aspects of the composer whom Goethe and Heine likened to a second Mozart. Mendelssohn Essays explores Mendelssohn’s precocity, his musical impressions of British culture, the role of the visual in his music, his compositional response to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and incomplete drafts from his musical estate of three instrumental works. In addition, a group of three essays focuses on the music of Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny Hensel, perhaps the most gifted woman composer of the century, and a significant, complex figure in the formation of the Mendelssohnian style.