Name that piece! The game

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

As I am celebrating my birthday, I hope another member will put up the next snippet...

[mc ukrneal]

Happy Birthday!

I am not sure you will get this one, but you already got your birthday selection, so all is well!!!

Test 2.mp3

[Parsifal]

Sounds like a piano transcription of an orchestra piece. I just happened to notice Offenbach in  your signature....it's not by him is it?

[mc ukrneal]

Sounds like a piano transcription of an orchestra piece. I just happened to notice Offenbach in  your signature....it's not by him is it?

Not him. Feel free to guess again. I'll wait for a guess or two more before I start with some hints.

[DavidW]

Since it sounds flamboyant but not excessively baroque, modern I'm guessing a romantic figure known for fun piano music... Liszt perhaps?

[Lethevich]

I lolled at how I initially thought Joplin during the first few seconds, then this guess increasingly became wronger and wronger.

Is it based on popular or folk dance? It sounds like it's in a somewhat populist style of that manner - not relaxed enough to be salon music.

[Parsifal]

How about Louis Moreau Gottschalk?

[mc ukrneal]

Since it sounds flamboyant but not excessively baroque, modern I'm guessing a romantic figure known for fun piano music... Liszt perhaps?

Nope - not him.

I lolled at how I initially thought Joplin during the first few seconds, then this guess increasingly became wronger and wronger.

Is it based on popular or folk dance? It sounds like it's in a somewhat populist style of that manner - not relaxed enough to be salon music.

I don't know if it is based directly on such, but the piece is a polonaise, so close enough on that score. I'm not sure if this helps you or not. And definitely not Joplin.

How about Louis Moreau Gottschalk?

Nope - not him.

Here's a small hint - it's a four-hands piano piece.

[Scarpia]

Here's a small hint - it's a four-hands piano piece.

Hmmm, Schubert wrote tons of four-hand piano stuff.  Dreadful, I've always assumed.   

[Drasko]

Bizet - Jeux d'enfants?

[mc ukrneal]

Hmmm, Schubert wrote tons of four-hand piano stuff.  Dreadful, I've always assumed.   

Those are a mixed bag, but this is not Schubert.

Bizet - Jeux d'enfants?

Nope. Love that work though - a long-time favorite.

Here's another hint - this is an early work from this composer, perhaps not in the style that we are more used to.

[Parsifal]

Fauré: Dolly?

[mc ukrneal]

Fauré: Dolly?

Not Faure

Another hint: He is not known for his piano music.

[Parsifal]

Another hint: He is not known for his piano music.

Richard Strauss?

[mc ukrneal]

Richard Strauss?

Not him either.

Another hint: This composer did not survive to see the 20th century. 

EDIT: Let me know if more serious hints are needed... Here's one more: I think you will be astonished (maybe?) when the name is revealed.

[Parsifal]

Anton Bruckner??

[Opus106]

Sounds like a piano transcription of an orchestra piece.

Yes, that occurred to me to as well...

I initially thought Joplin during the first few seconds

... right after this did.

[DavidW]

Anton Bruckner??

That's totally insane!  I like the way you think!

[mc ukrneal]

Anton Bruckner??

Nope - but this guess is warmer!

[Parsifal]

Nope - but this guess is warmer!

Richard Wagner