Moscou: Section Musicale des Editions d'Etat, 1920. — 18 p. Alexander Abramsky was a Soviet composer. He was known for his adaptation of folk music within his compositions. Abramsky was born on January 10, 1898 in the city of Lutsk. Alexander Abramsky studied piano with Igumnov and composition with Catoire. From 1922 undertook further studies with Miaskovsky at the Moscow...
Sydney: Allan&Co, 1922. — 10 p. Roy Ewing "Robert" Agnew was an Australian composer, pianist, teacher, and radio announcer. He was described as "the most outstanding of the early twentieth-century Australian composers" by Morris Hinson. Intended for student of music universities, medium difficulty
Madrid: Sociedad Anónima Casa Botesio, 1912. — 115 p. Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works based on Spanish folk music idioms. Gavotte...
Boston: The Boston Music Co, 1916. — 40 p. Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works based on Spanish folk music idioms. Isaac Albéniz was close...
Christiania: Carl Warmuth's Musikvorlag, N.D. /cca1895/. — 10 p. Vaterlandische Hymne, Volkweise, Albumblatt, Humoreske Alnæs was a renowned pianist and accompanist; as part of his piano and organ teaching he published piano and organ methods and practical collections of music. intended for student of music schools and universities, not difficulty
Leipzig: M. P. Belaieff Edition, 1901. — 16 p. Amani, Nikolai, Russian composer; b. St. Petersburg, April 4, 1872; d. Yalta, Oct. 17, 1904. He was a pupil in piano of Essipova and in composition of Rimsky-Korsakov and Liadov at the St. Petersburg Cons. (1890–1900). His life was cut short by tuberculosis. Among his works were a String Trio (1900), piano pieces, and songs....
Moscow: Jurgenson, 1904. — 30 p. The "Album pour la jeunesse" is Nikolai Amani's (1872 - 1904) last published opus, his swan song. It was written on the Crimean peninsula, to which Amani had retreated because of his tuberculosis, from which he also died soon after. Amani, who was penniless throughout his life, was a composition student of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly...
Leipzig: M. P. Belaieff, 1901. — 20 p. Prélude, Minuetto, Gigue and Gavotte. There is some evidence that the almost forgotten Rimsky-Korsakov pupil Amani, whose rewarding and skillfully crafted piano works I am gradually making more accessible, drew his immediate inspiration to use the classical suite form from Johann Sebastian Bach's numerous suites. These consist mainly of...
Buenos Aires: Edición de la Sociedad Nacional de Música, 1918. — 30 p. José André (1881-1944) was an Argentine composer, teacher and music critic. He was a student of Alberto Williams and Julián Aguirre. He then continued his musical training at the Schola Cantorum in Paris between 1911 and 1914. In 1915, he founded the National Music Society, which later became the Argentine...
Manusript. — 28 p. Violet Louise Archer CM was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist. Born Violet Balestreri in Montreal, Quebec, in 1913, her family changed their name to Archer in 1940. She died in Ottawa on 21 February 2000.
Moscow: P. Jurgenson, 1903. — 32 p. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the greatest influence on Arensky's musical compositions. Indeed, Rimsky-Korsakov said, "In his youth Arensky did not escape some influence from me; later the influence came from Tchaikovsky. He will quickly be forgotten." The perception that he lacked a distinctive personal style contributed to long-term neglect...
London: J.&W. Chester, 1918. — 17 p. Anton Stepanovich Arensky (Russian: Анто́н Степа́нович Аре́нский; 12 July [O.S. 30 June] 1861 – 25 February [O.S. 12 February] 1905) was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music. Arensky was born into an affluent, music-loving family in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a...
London: J.&W. Chester, 1915. — 35 p. 4 pieces Arabesque Minuet Romance Gigue Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton (9 December 1859 – 10 April 1937) was a British composer, pianist, and Professor of piano at the Royal College of Music 1884–1910. He was a prolific composer in many instrumental genres. His published works exceeded 160, but there were many other unpublished works, some...
Berlin: Verlag von Ries&Erler, 1892. — 42 p. Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton was a very voluminous English composer, better known, however, by his favourite hobby of seeking out and keeping in repair the graves of distinguished persons, a hobby pursued at one time by means of frequent letters to the English newspapers. Algernon Ashton’s compositions include symphonies,...
Paris: Durand & Fils, 1913. — 27 p. Louis Aubert's Sillages, Op. 27 is a set of three pieces for solo piano. Aubert, a French composer, wrote a number of ballets and songs, and he was the dedicatee of and premiered Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales. A typical performance of the work lasts around 20 minutes. "Sillages is another sea-piece to set alongside Le Tombeau de...
Paris: Durand & Fils, 1901. — 8 p. Dedication Albert Lavignac. Composer Time Period: Early 20th century. Piece Style: Romantic. Prelude, Nocturne, Valse. Medium difficulty.
Paris: Editions Max Eschig, 1948. — 18 p. Georges Auric was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault. He was a child prodigy and at age 15 he had his first compositions published. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Georges Caussade, and under the composer Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum.
London; Brighton: J.&W. Chester, 1915. — 16 p. Ernest Austin was an English composer. He started composing in 1907 after a career in business and was self-taught. He was the brother of baritone and composer Frederic Austin. In Sun-Lit Forest Glades A Quiet Valley Sunset Harmonies On the Hilltop
Paris: Alphonse Leduc, 1878. — 65 p. 25 pieces for piano. Sérénade, Mazurka-rêveuse, Berceuse, À deux, Prélude, Gavotte, Impromptu, Chant du soir, Menuet, Valse allemande, Alla marcia,Le petit soldat, Laendler, Solitude, Elégie, Délire, Air de ballet, Confidence, Chant de Ménestrel, Humoresque, Plainte, Nuit d'été, Les almées,Romance sans paroles, Finale Medium difficulty,...
London: Elkin &Co, 1919. — 10 p. William Baines was an English pianist and composer who wrote over 150 works for solo piano and a number of larger orchestral works before his premature death of tuberculosis at the age of 23. Despite his youth, William Baines completed roughly 150 works, mostly in the genre of the piano miniature and he left a symphony, a poem for piano and...
Krakow: Polskie Wydanictwo Muzycne, 1949. — 10 p. In the macroscale, the Sonatina is in the form of a sonata allegro, in which the exposition corresponds to the first movement, the development to the second movement and the recapitulation to the third movement. Such an interpretation is made possible by the motivic uniformity of the entire composition as well as its brevity...
London: Elkin&Co, 1917. — 5 p. Barratt, Albert Edgar 13.sep.1877-20.aug.1928 England, Lincoln - Scotland, Glasgow. pianist, born at 7 Tentercroft Street, 1880-1890 residing with his parents at 1 Maxwell Street in Paisley Scotland, studied at Leipzig Conservatory and in Oxford, as concert and recital pianist he toured with the sopranos Emma Albani and Dolores, pianist in the...
Paris: Editeurs Durand & Fils, 1909. — 34 p. René-Emmanuel Baton, known as Rhené-Baton, was a French conductor and composer. Though born in Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, his family originated in Vitré in neighbouring Brittany. He returned to the region at the age of 19, and many of his compositions express his love of the area. Suite in 6 movements: Crépuscule d'Eté sur le...
New York: Schirmer 1946. — 36 p. 3 movements I. Majestic ( = 108) II. Dignified, yet lyric ( = circa 69) III. Humorous ( = 100) Dedication For the High School of Music and Art, New York City. Intended for student of music schools and universities, two piano-scores.
London: J.&W. Chester, 1918. — 11 p. Tragic landscape. Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral music. Winter Waters was written in 1915, and is a brooding, dark piece. It's a transcription of a movement in some...
Bratislava: Vydavatelstvo Slovenského Hudobného Fondu 1984. — 55 p. The preludes were created in the time, when I wanted to express a kind of return (wide tonality, the piano technique, the concert form) as well as a content (shapes, evoking certain associations - maybe too romantic) Movements: Promenáda (Promenade) Rozbúrená rieka (La Fleuve déchaîné) Strieborná hora (Le Mont...
Massachusetts: Wa-Wan Press, 1906. — 24 p. John Parsons Beach was born in Gloversville, New York, on October 11, 1877. The nephew of Cyrus Northrop, he studied piano at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and became a piano instructor at the University of Minnesota. In 1910 he went to Europe where he took lessons in composition with André Gédalge and piano with Harold Bauer...