SKU: HL.49045865
ISBN 9790001170710. UPC: 888680784263. 9.0x12.0x0.097 inches.
This first print is a rarity: the highly virtuoso, evocative 'Nocturne' owes its creation to an instrument that has only survived as a museum piece. Gustave Lyon, the director of the French instrument maker Pleyel, commissioned Charles Koechlin as well as several other French composers (such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel) to write works for the 'harpe chromatique' developed by him around 1900. In contrast to the common pedal harp, the chromatic harp allows for an unlimited modulatory range. Nevertheless, the instrument did not gain much acceptance and remained exotic. Koechlin was aware of the difficulty of introducing and establishing new instruments. He therefore, from the very beginning, had the piano as an alternative of equal value in mind when writing his Nocturne.
SKU: BT.1956-13-400-M
ISBN 9789043137546. 9x12 inches. English-German.
Aniko Drabon, the editor of this book of piano masterworks, is also the pianist on the accompanying CD recordings. She is known among other things as the author of the successful Tastenzauberei piano tutor method. PIANO MASTERWORKS richtet sich an fortgeschrittene Klavierspieler, die eine pianistische Grundausbildung absolviert haben, wie z. B. die bekannte Klavierschule TASTENZAUBEREI von Aniko Drabon. Während ihrer langjährigen Tätigkeit als Klavierpädagogin sammelte die Herausgeberin die Lieblingsstücke ihrer Schüler. Die schönsten Titel wählte sie nun für dieses Buch aus. Die Audio-CD dient als Beispiel für eine Interpretation der Werke.
SKU: M7.BRP-1006
SKU: BT.BVP1006
SKU: HL.50511397
ISBN 9790080088043. UPC: 073999113976. A/4 inches. Zoltan Kocsis.
SKU: HL.51481156
ISBN 9790201811567. UPC: 888680749705. 9.25x12.25x0.07 inches.
In his youth, when still searching for his own personal style, Debussy composed a series of short, stand-alone piano pieces. He took traditional genres such as the ballade, mazurka, nocturne and waltz, but in general used each of them just once, as if trying them out. One such was the “Valse romantiqueâ€, published by Choudens of Paris in 1891 and thus written at the same time as his famous piano works “Two Arabesques†and the “Suite bergamasqueâ€. This charming waltz is of moderate difficulty and thus ideal either as a pedagogical piece or for concert performance. Our collected volume “Debussy: Piano Pieces†(HN 404) offers numerous other short piano pieces of modest difficulty for those who find that this practical, stand-alone edition awakens in them a desire for more.
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