London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1963. — 7 p. The Night Piece was composed in 1963 as a test piece for the first Leeds Piano Competition which was won by the seventeen-year-old pupil of Fanny Waterman, Michael Roll. The idea behind this composition was to put musicianship rather than mere virtuosity to the test. It is a quiet ternary design in B flat—very challenging in touch, legato...
New York: J. Fischer & Bro, 1925. — 5 p. Abram Chasins (1903–87) began his career as a pianist and composer but as broadcaster and writer soon became one of the best-known cultural commentators in the USA. His output of music for solo piano – recorded here complete for the first time – dates from his first years in the public eye, and although he made little attempt to promote...
New York: J. Fischer & Bro, 1925. — 4 p. Abram Chasins (1903–87) began his career as a pianist and composer but as broadcaster and writer soon became one of the best-known cultural commentators in the USA. His output of music for solo piano – recorded here complete for the first time – dates from his first years in the public eye, and although he made little attempt to promote...
New York: J. Fischer & Bro, 1925. — 4 p. Abram Chasins (1903–87) began his career as a pianist and composer but as broadcaster and writer soon became one of the best-known cultural commentators in the USA. His output of music for solo piano – recorded here complete for the first time – dates from his first years in the public eye, and although he made little attempt to promote...
Unknown editor, no data 16p. Elegia, Noturno e Toccata. Pianist, composer and musicologist, he studied with Souza Lima, Artur Hartmann and perfected his talent with Olivier Messiaen, in Paris. His work has more than 160 compositions. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Music and holds 10 prizes as a performer and 16 awards has a composer. He has performed more than 72...
Leipzig: Verlag von Bertholf Senff, 1902. — 20 p. Schnell und grotesk. (b-Moll) Äußerst schnell und flüchtig. (G-Dur) So lebhaft und übermütig als nur möglich. (E-Dur)
Leipzig: J. Rieter-Biedermann n.d. — 25 p. Wilm (1834-1911) was a German-Baltic composer, pianist, conductor. He composed more than 250 works, and the only know string nonett which is known. He was born in Riga, studied in Leipzig, then St. Petersburg in 1860. He lived most of his life in Germany, Wiesbaden. He composed a lot of piano pieces for young people, songs, choir...
New York: Composers Music Co, 1919. — 25 p. 17 pieces: Queen of Hearts, Little Jack Horner, Little Polly Flinders, Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Jack Spratt, Jack, Be Nimble, Lady Bug, Little Miss Muffet, Hark! Hark!, The King, the Queen, and the Blackbird, Goosey-Gander, Pussy-Cat, Mary's Lamb, Baa, Black Sheep, Georgy-Porgy, What Are Little Girls Made Of?, Sing a Song of Sixpence
Leipzig: D. Rahter, 1909. — 33 p. 10 pieces: Conte arabe, Histoire viennoise, Pastorale galante, Aux ombres de la forêt, L'elfe de rosée, Causerie de fleurs, Intermède grec, Vénitienne, Danse de l'épée Valse, ou "comme il vous plaira".
Paris: Garnier Fréres, Libraires-Éditeurs, 1886. — 93 p. Weckerlin, Jean-Baptiste-Théodore, eminent French music scholar and composer. 56 Songs and Rounds: Ah! mon beau château, Ah! vous dirai-je, maman, Ainsi font, font, font, L'Alouette et le Pinson, A ma main droite, A Paris, sur un petit cheval gris, Arlequin tient sa boutique, Au clair de lune, Autrefois le rat de ville,...
London: Augener Ltd. 1912. — 14 p. 3 pieces: Début et Sérénade, Tendresse, Burletta. Ede Poldini was a Hungarian composer of the late romantic / early contemporary period. Famous in Hungary for writing many operas, he became internationally famous when Fritz Kreisler transcribed his piano piece “La poupée valsante” for violin. Poldini is best known for his miniature piano...
New York: Charles F. Tretbar, 1903. — 26 p. Das Porträt, Mückenschwarm, Ein Geburtstagssträusschen, Die Uhr, Auf der Pussta, Herbstnacht, Flügellahmes Vögelein, Wenn die Linden blühen,Wolkenzug, Spielmannsweise Ede Poldini was a Hungarian composer of the late romantic / early contemporary period. Famous in Hungary for writing many operas, he became internationally famous when...
Boston: Boston Music Co, 1912. — 34 p. 6 pieces: Praeludium, Skuggornas ö, Saga, Mor sjunger, Svanen, Ringdans Selim Palmgren (1878-1951) During the first decades of the past century Selim Palmgren, a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni and Conrad Ansorge, was undoubtedly one of the most performed Nordic composers of piano music. His piano works, including hundreds of pieces and five...
Boston: The Arthur P. Schmidt Co., 1899. — 16 p. MacDowell's Forgotten Fairy Tales is a charming four movement work that depicts different fairy tales: Sung Outside a Prince's Door, Of a Tailor and a Bear, Beauty in the Rose Garden, From Dwarf Land
Paris: Rouart, Lerolle & Cie, 1927. — 11 p. La cigale chante ; Cicada's sing ; Цикада поет Cerisiers en fleurs ; The cherry blossom ; Вишневый цвет Amour ; Love ; Любовь Printemps ; Spring ; Весна
New York: Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, 1915. — 32 p. In Sleepy Hollow; On Tappan Zee (a Boat Song); Mid-October Afternoon (Reverie); Katrina's Waltz. The New York composer (Sidney) Eastwood Lane (1879-1951) is remembered for a series of piano suites that somehow provided a bridge between the music of MacDowell and Nevin and the jazz age, and Lane had a very quirky style of...
Moscou: Musiksektion d. Staatsverlages, 1927. — 11 p. Markian Frolov was a Soviet pianist, composer and teacher. He taught the piano at the Kiev Conservatory and he was a founder and the first director of the Sverdlovsk Conservatory (1934–7 and 1943–4) where he taught the piano and composition. Moderato, semplicatto in F minor, Agitato, fantastico in F♯ minor
Breslau^ Julius Hainauer 1896. — 44 p. 5 pieces: Pagenlied (C major), Andalusierin (E minor), Kirgisischer Waffentanz (A minor), Die Spatzen auf dem Dache (F major), Spinnlied (A♭ major).
New York: G. Schirmer, 1886. — 28 p. 5 movements: Prelude (Molto adagio), Marche (Maestoso), Menuet (Moderato), Romance (Andante cantabile), Tarantelle (Molto vivace) Berthold Tours (Rotterdam, Dec 17, 1838 – London, Mar 11, 1897) was a Dutch-born English violinist, composer and music editor. His first music teacher was his father, Barthelemy Tours (1797-1864), who was organist...
London: Winthrop Rogers, 1920. — 24 p. It aims to depict the innocence of childhood. Quilter takes famous nursery rhymes and neatly links them together, creating the ultimate childhood piece. The overture is based on a music book by Walter Crane called The Baby’s Opera.
Paris: Heugel & Cie, 1914. — 32 p. Isidor Edmond Philipp was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue of Jewish Hungarian descent. He was born in Budapest and died in Paris.
Sydney: A. Mellos, 2016. — 32 p. Aristea Mellos is a Greek-Australian composer of contemporary classical music whose compositional voice has been described as “unnerving and awe-inspiring” (Limelight Magazine 2020). Born on the island of Crete, she received her formative musical training in Sydney, where she was an avid chorister and also studied classical piano.
London: Oxford University Press, 1922. — 8 p. Son of the English artist Horace Mann Livens, Leo Livens was a virtuoso concert pianist and composer. He wrote mainly for his own instrument and his most celebrated works were based on nursery rhymes: Sing a Song of Sixpence and Little Polly Flinders. Together with his sister, Evangeline, Leo Livens (1896-1990) was a piano pupil of...
New York: J. Fischer & Bro, 1919. — 26 p. Eastwood Lane was an American composer who wrote piano suites and ballet music. His compositions influenced Bix Beiderbecke. Eastwood Lane was born in Brewerton, New York. The Crap Shooters (A Negro Dance), Around the Hall (A Dance Hall Ditty), A Gringo Tango, North of Boston (A Barn Dance), Powwow (An Indian Reminiscence)
Paris: O. Bouwens van der Boijen & Cie., 1909. — 49 p. Les Campbells arrivent... Danse des Fées Nocturne Limerick-Pibroch Chanson Ecossaise des basses-terres Fantaisie sur une contredanse populaire
Helsingfors: A. Apostol n.d. — 13 p. Vesper – 6 sound pictures for piano with motto by Jacob Tegengren, Op. 6 Carl Axel von Kothen (August 15th 1871 Hamina – July 7th 1927 Tammisaari) was a Finnish vocalist, music teacher and composer.
Moscou: P. Jurgenson, 1912. — 8 p. Yevgeny Ottovich Gunst was a Russian composer, pianist, music essayist, and pedagogue. He was the brother of architect Anatoly Gunst. Born in Moscow, emigrated to Tallinn in 1920 and later Paris, co-founded the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff in 1924 (but left in 1931 due to differences with Rachmaninov), planned to move to the United States...
Paris: J. Hamelle Éditeur, 1885. — 30 p. Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher. His influence as a teacher, in particular, was considerable. He was a co-founder of the Schola Cantorum de Paris and also taught at the Paris Conservatoire. 5 movements: Harmonie Le Chant des Bruyères, Danses rythmiques, Plein Air, Harmonie Le Poème des montagnes is...
London: Chappel&Co, 1919. — 15 p. Eric Francis Harrison Coates (27 August 1886 – 21 December 1957) was an English composer of light music and, early in his career, a leading violist. In a Country Lane On the Edge of the Lake At the Dance
Cracovie: A. Piwarski&Co, 1911. — 17 p. Franciszek Ksawery Brzezinski was a Polish composer. Brzezinski had piano lessons with Jan Kleczyński. He studied law in Tartu and worked until 1903 as a lawyer. He then studied music in Paris and at the Conservatory in Leipzig. Since 1916, he lived as a composer in Warsaw. He composed in addition to late romantic piano works, a piano...
Київ: Музична Україна, 1975. — 54 c. — (Композитори України - дiтям). Прогулка. Русская протяжная. Русская танцевальная. Соловей-соловеюшко. Русская народная песня. Маки, маки, маковочки. Русская народная песня. Казачок. «Гречаники». Украинский народный танец. Грустная песенка. Латышский танец. Эстонский танец. Восточный напев. Венгерская танцевальная. Чешская танцевальная....
New York: G. Schirmer, 1921. — 24 p. 6 pieces: March of the Peppermint Sticks. Sweet Taffy. The Candy-Pull. The Popular Chocolate Creams. The Lollipop and the Lemondrop. Divinity Fudge.
Buenos Aires: Edición de la Sociedad Nacional de Música, 1916. — 38 p. Celestino Piaggio (1886-1931) was an Argentine Composer. Piaggio was born in Concordia, Argentina. He studied at the Schola Cantorum, Paris. He died in Buenos Aires, aged 44.
New York: Carl Fischer, 1918. — 56 p. 10 pieces: No Man's Land, The Sower of Despair, The Orient in Flanders, The Wrath of the Despoiled, Night Brooding over the Battlefield, A Dirge of the Trenches, Song Behind the Lines, The Battle, Army at Prayer, Dance of the Dead The ten brief Poems of 1917, Ornstein’s Op 41, are dedicated to an outstanding pianist-composer, Leopold...