Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Opus 40
Piano Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Opus 40

Author: Felix Mendelssohn

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 1996-02-01

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781457486999

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An Advanced Piano Duet for 2 Pianos, 4 hands, composed by Felix Mendelssohn. Two copies are required for performance.

Piano concertos nos. 1, 2, and 3
Piano concertos nos. 1, 2, and 3

Author: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 0486263509

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Rachmaninoff's compositions for piano and orchestra won him an important position among modern composers. The works that made his reputation include these three piano concertos, reprinted from authoritative full-score Russian editions.

Eighteenth Variation "(Rhapsodie on a Theme of Paganini)"
Eighteenth Variation

Author: Sergei Rachmaninoff

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 1995-01-31

Total Pages: 6

ISBN-13: 1457462958

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The world-famous Rachmaninoff "Eighteenth Variation" has probably graced as many pianos and recitals as has any favorite solo. Lambert's arrangement has faithfully maintained the beauty of the original for intermediate pianists.

The Concerto
The Concerto

Author: Stephan D. Lindeman

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 0415976197

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Twelve-tone and serial music were dominant forms of composition following World War II and remained so at least through the mid-1970s. In 1961, Ann Phillips Basart published the pioneering bibliographic work in the field.

Mendelssohn Perspectives
Mendelssohn Perspectives

Author: Nicole Grimes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1317097394

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If the invective of Nietzsche and Shaw is to be taken as an endorsement of the lasting quality of an artist, then Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy takes pride of place beside Tennyson and Brahms in the canon of great nineteenth-century artists. Mendelssohn Perspectives presents valuable new insights into Mendelssohn’s music, biography and reception. Critically engaging a wide range of source materials, the volume combines traditional musical-analytical studies with those that draw on other humanistic disciplines to shed new light on the composer’s life, and on his contemporary and posthumous reputations. Together, these essays bring new historical and interpretive dimensions to Mendelssohn studies. The volume offers essays on Mendelssohn's Jewishness, his vast correspondence, his music for the stage, and his relationship with music of the past and future, as well as the compositional process and handling of form in the music of both Mendelssohn and his sister, the composer Fanny Hensel. German literature and aesthetics, gender and race, philosophy and science, and issues of historicism all come to bear on these new perspectives on Mendelssohn.

Performing Brahms
Performing Brahms

Author: Michael Musgrave

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-02

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780521652735

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A great deal of evidence survives about how Brahms and his contemporaries performed his music. But much of this evidence - found in letters, autograph scores, treatises, publications, recordings, and more - has been hard to access, both for musicians and for scholars. This book brings the most important evidence together into one volume. It also includes discussions by leading Brahms scholars of the many issues raised by the evidence. The period spanned by the life of Brahms and the following generation saw a crucial transition in performance style. As a result, modern performance practices differ significantly from those of Brahms's time. By exploring the musical styles and habits of Brahms's era, this book will help musicians and scholars understand Brahms's music better and bring fresh ideas to present-day performance. The value of the book is greatly enhanced by the accompanying CD of historic recordings - including a performance by Brahms himself.