Quiz: Mystery scores

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Still, I should be happy with the ones I've got...

Cheer up, Luke - I just listened to your Sonata again, and enjoyed it immensely... 

[lukeottevanger]

Well, that's good to hear!

Stick around, guys - new clues to mine coming up in a little while...

[lukeottevanger]

Clues to my newer ones, anyway:

251  The enigmatic composer, composed as a gesture of solidarity with a nearby ally in time of war.

255  The mysterious composer, who shared the interest manifested by the composer of 238, but not at the time of this early piece.

257 The one by the composer who is obvious from the context of the discussion, which is an earlier work than his more famous pieces in the genre, but equally inventive and ground-breaking.

260  An extremely uncompromising score by a composer who's been on this thread quite a few times, I think, but who's best known for less abrasive stuff.

261 Today my six year old daughter, who can only play in simple five-finger positions, tried to sightread a piece by this very famous composer.

262 Equally famous composer, very-little-known early work rediscovered after his death.

263

264 Look in detail at the score; the composer is possibly the best-known of the early experimenters with this sort of thing.

265  Looks hideously tricky, I know, but actually this piece is one of its composer's best -known pieces, due to its being a coupling on a very well-received disc of a few years ago, whose highlight work is one of the two or three finest and most famous concertos for the solo instrument you see here. The score sample itself contains an unusual orchestral touch which might help you find the work, too

266  A piano sonata I'd never heard of, but by one of those mythical genius-who-died-too-young composers.

267 Obviously, one of a set of variations. Look carefully and you'll uncover the theme (also look at the footnotes); the composer has been on this thread before

268 Equally obviously, another set of variations, and again the composer has been on this thread before - he's generally associated with a much more avant-garde style than that we see here, but actually, in this final variation we see something of his interest in sound and sound-production, manifested in a more outrageous way in his better-known works

269 and 269b The two quotations are found 1) in the bottom line-and-a-half (quotation from an early work, the composer's great popular 'hit' and 2) at the beginning, in the chords of the left hand and the pedal note above (quotation from the beginning of a wonderful later work, already on this thread)

271 This is the piano reduction of a work in a genre which Schoenberg was, I think, the first to  work in. Composer is a contemporary and compatriot of Schoenberg.

[Guido]

LO266 - Lili Boulanger Piano Sonata? I'm not aware of her writing one (so this is a guess), but I don't know that much about her. I was absolutely staggered when I heard her works for the first time the other week.

[Chrone]

LO251: Elgar, "Le Drapeau Belge" 

[lukeottevanger]

LO251: Elgar, "Le Drapeau Belge" 

Very much on the right lines, but that's not the title on my score... Elgar, the 'enigmatic' composer, is correct of course.

Guido, not Lili Boulanger; the composer you want was born a few years earlier.

[Symphonien]

265 - Could this be Gubaidulina's Viola Concerto?
268 - Lachenmann's Five Variations on a Theme of Schubert

[lukeottevanger]

265 - Could this be Gubaidulina's Viola Concerto?

No - I think I can see why you guessed that, though.

268 - Lachenmann's Five Variations on a Theme of Schubert

Yes - very good! I thought this would be one of the last to go!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Very much on the right lines, but that's not the title on my score... Elgar, the 'enigmatic' composer, is correct of course.

#251 Either Carillon or Une Voix dans le Désert?

[(poco) Sforzando]

Very much on the right lines, but that's not the title on my score... Elgar, the 'enigmatic' composer, is correct of course.

Guido, not Lili Boulanger; the composer you want was born a few years earlier.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/253084/Lekeu-Piano-Sonata

[lukeottevanger]

Sforzando is correct on the Lekeu

Johan is correct - it is one of those two. But which?

[lukeottevanger]

Let's bring this up TTT

Old list:
part one
and
part two

current list

Set by Luke
165 - Schubert - Symphony no 4 - (Sforzando)
166 - Brahms - Serenade no 1 - (Sforzando)
167 - Bartok - Miraculous Mandarin (complete ballet) - (Sforzando)
168 - Janacek - Otce Nas - (revealed by Luke)
169 - Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante (wind solos) - (Sforzando)
170 - Brahms - Neue Liebeslieder waltzes - (Sforzando)
171 - Liszt - Totentanz - (Johan)
172 - Schumann - Mein Wagen rollet langsam- (Sforzando)
173 - Wagner - Rheingold - (Mark)
174 - Stravinsky - Mass - (Mark)
175 - Sibelius - Tapiola - (Mark)
176 - Debussy- Danse sacre et danse profane - (Sforzando)
177 - Berlioz - Roman Carnival - (Johan)
178 - Debussy - Pelleas et Melisande - (Sforzando)
179 - Rossini - La Cenerentola overture - (Sforzando)
180 - Scriabin - Prometheus - (Mark)
181 - Franck - Symphonic Variations - (Sforzando)
182 - Gershwin - Piano Concerto - (Mark)
183 - Busoni - Piano Concerto - (Robert)
184 - Honegger - Pacific 231 - (Greg)
185 - Ligeti - String Quartet no 1 - (revealed by Luke)
186 - Ligeti - String Quartet no 2 - (matticus)
187 - Holst - The Perfect Fool - (Johan)
188 - Tippett - Fantasia Concertante/Corelli - (Johan)
189 - Elgar - Cockaigne - (Johan)
190 - Tippett - Triple Concerto - (Mark)
191 - Ireland - Piano concerto - (Guido)
192 - Tippett - Symphony no 1 - (Mark)
193 - Vaughan Williams - The Lake in the Mountains - (revealed by Luke)
194 - Tippett - A Child of Our Time - (Robert)
195 - Rubbra - Prelude/Fugue theme of Cyril Scott - (Maciek)
196 - Berners - Le poisson d'or - (Guido)
197 - Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage - (Mark)
198 - Howells - Hymnus Paradisi - (Guido)
199 - Lutoslawski - Two Etudes - (Maciek)
200 - Bloch - Schelomo - (Guido)
201 - Thelonius Monk improvisation - (revealed by Luke)
202 - Humperdinck - Hansel und Gretel - (Sforzando)
203 - Hoddinott - The sun, the great luminary of the universe - (revealed by Luke)
204 - Zimmermann - Stille und umkehr - (revealed by Luke)
205 - Ligeti - Cello Concerto - (Guido)
206 - Glass - Vessels (from Koyaanisqatsi) - (revealed by Luke)
207 - Berio - Folksongs - (Symphonien)
208 - Part - Rottkappchen und der Wolf - (Sforzando)
209 - Ligeti - Lontano - (Greg)
210 - Ligeti - Artikulation - (Greg)
211 - Bussotti - La Passion Selon Sade - (Symphonien)
212 - Stevenson - Passacaglia on DSCH - (Johan)
213 - Grainger - Ramble on Love - (Sforzando)
214 - Penderecki - De Natura Sonoris I - (Mark/Greg)
215 - Cowell - Fabric - (Sforzando)
216 - Dallapiccola - Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera - (Symphonien)
217 - Xenakis - à r - (Johan)
218 - Ives - Improvisation (transcr. Dapogny) - (Mark)
219 - ? -
220 - Messiaen - Mode de valeurs... - (Guido)
221 - Messiaen - Tombeau de Paul Dukas - (Johan)
222 - Crumb - Agnus Dei (Makrokosmos II) - (Symphonien)
223 - Emsley - For Guitar 1 - (Johan)
224 - Villa-Lobos - Amazonas - (Johan)
225 - Koechlin - Les Heures Persanes - (Sforzando)
226 - Mussorgsky - Sunless - (Sforzando)
226 - Brant - Four Traumatics - (Sforzando)
227 - Schoenberg - Songs op 22 - (Mark)
228 - Foulds - Essays in the Modes - (Johan)
229 - Blacher - Preludes - (Sforzando)
230 - Gould - So you want to write a fugue - (Johan)
231 - Schoeck - Elegie - (Johan)
232 - Feldman - ? - (Guido)
233 - Gurdjieff - something-or-other-I'll-find-out-later - (Johan)
234 - ? -
235 - Rachmaninov - Piano Trio 1 - (Guido)
236 - Britten - Michelangelo Sonnets - (Sforzando)
237 - Wyschnegradsky - Etude sur le carré magique sonore - (Johan)
238 - ? -
239 - Mosolov - Two Dances op 23b - (Johan)
240 - Bryars - Mr Sunshine - (Sforzando)
241 - Francaix - La Promenade d'un musicologue éclectique - (Johan)
242 - Britten - Cadenza for Mozart K482 - (Sforzando)
243 - Sciarrino - Anamorfosi - (Johan)
244 - Nancarrow - ? - (Sforzando)
245 - ? -
246 - Beethoven - Equali - (Mark)
247 - Boulez - Notations - (Sforzando)
248 - Ustvolskaya - Piano Sonata no 6 - (Johan)
249 - Hamelin - Preambulum to an Imaginary Piano Symphony - (Johan)
250 - Stockhausen - Gruppen - (Sforzando)
251 - Elgar - Carillon - (Chrone)
252 - Ravel - Ronsard à son âme - (Johan)
253 - Chopin (aged 7) - Polonaise - (Sforzando)
254 - Chopin reconstr. Kallberg - 'Trill' Prelude - (Sforzando)
255 - Scriabin - Fantasy for 2 pianos - (Symphonien)
256 - Ravel - Noël des jouets - (Johan)
257 - ? -
258 - Handel - Guilio Cesare - (Sforzando)
259 - Gliere - Concerto for Coloratura Soprano - (Sforzando)
260 - Gorecki - 5 pieces for 2 pianos - (Symphonien)
261 - Stravinsky - Tango - (Sforzando)
262 - Webern - Movement (or Sonata) - (Symphonien)
263 - Gubaidulina - Toccata Troncata - (Symphonien)
264 - ? -
265 - Eötvös - Replica - (Symphonien)
266 - Lekeu - Piano Sonata - Sforzando)
267 - Markevitch - Variations on a Theme by Handel - (Sforzando)
268 - Lachenmann - Five Variations on a Theme of Schubert - (Symphonien)
269/269b - Suk - O Mamince - (Johan)
270 - Rimsky-Korsakov - Piano Concerto - (Sforzando)
271 - Schreker - ? - (Sforzando)
272 - ? -
273 - Brian - John Dowland's Fancy - (Johan)


Set by Greg
31 - Mahler - Ressurection symphony - (Johan)

Set by Symphonien
1 - Lachenmann - Pression - (Luke)
2 - Stravinsky - Les noces - (Johan)
3 - Schoenberg - A Survivor from Warsaw - (Mark)
4 - Murail - Désintégrations - (Luke)
5 - Schnittke - Prelude in memoriam Dmitiri Shostakovich - (Mark)
6  - Sciarrino - Sei quartetti brevi - (Luke)
7 - Stockhausen - Es (aus der sieben Tage) - (Mark)
8 - Nietzsche - There flows a brook - (Guido)

Set by Guido
21 - Beethoven - Triple Concerto - (Luke)
22 - Ligeti - Hungarian Rock - (Luke)
23 - Bartok - Study for the Left Hand - (Luke)
24 - Miaskovsky - Cello Sonata 2 - (Luke)
25 - Schulhoff - Violin Sonata - (Luke)
26 - Webern - Piece for cello and piano - (Luke)
27 - Tchaikovsky - Rococo Variations - (Luke)
28 - Scarlatti - Sonata K175 - (Luke)
29 - Vaughan Williams - Romance - (Luke)
30a-c - Ives - Skethces for Universe Symphony - (Luke)
31 - Korngold - Romance-Impromptu - (Johan)
32 - Ives - Some Southpaw Pitching - (Luke)
33 - Honegger - Cello concerto - (Luke)
34 - Ysaye - Solo Cello Sonata - (Luke)
35 - Klengel - Hymnus - (Luke)
36 - Piazzolla - Cuatro Estaciones porteña - (Luke)
37 - T. Newman - score to American Beauty - (Luke)
38 - Janacek - Violin Sonata - (Luke)
39 - Ravel - Concerto for the Left Hand - (Luke)
40 - Bartok - Solo Violin Sonata - (Luke)

Set by Sforzando
1 - Schubert - Reliquie Sonata - (Luke)
2 - Feldman - Last pieces - (Guido)
3 - Griffes - The White Peacock - (Luke)
4 - Ferneyhough - Superscriptio - (Mark)
5 - Ibert - Le petit ane blanc - (Guido)
6 - Ruggles - Sun-Treader - (Mark)
7 - Verdi - original version of Liber Scriptus, Manzoni Requiem - (Luke)
8 - Berwald - Symphony no 3 - (Mark)
9 - Rimsky-Korsakov - Le coq d'or - (Mark)
9(a) - Beethoven - sketchbook for opp 130, 132 - (Luke)
10 - Gluck - Le calme entre dans ma coeur (Iphigénie en Tauride) - (Luke)
11 - Rameau - Les tendres plaintes - (Luke)
12 - Roussel - Le festin de l'araignée - (Luke)
13 - Alfvén - First Swedish Rhapsody (Midsommarvaka) - (Johan)
14 - Panufnik - Jagiellonian Triptych - (Johan)
15 - Respighi - Brazillian Impressions - (Luke)
16 - Beach - Gaelic Symphony - (Luke)
17 - Hoffmann - Piece for Orchestra - (Luke)
18 -  Flothuis - Symphonic Music - (Luke)
19 - von Einem - Philadelphia Symphony - (Luke)
20 - Martin - Concerto pour sept instrument à vents - (Luke)
21 - Bernstein - Serenade - (Luke)
22 - Larry Rinkel - Sonatina - (Luke)
23 - Chabrier - Bourrée Fantasque - (Johan)
24 - Wolf - Er ist's - (Luke)
25 - Berlioz - Benvenuto Cellini - (Luke)
26 - Hummel - Trumpet Concerto - (Luke)
27 - Varese - Density 21.5 - (Luke)
28 - Gottschalk - Grand Tarantelle - (Johan)
29 - Berio - Sequenza XI - (Luke)
30 - Schumann - Fantasy op 17 (orig. ending) - (Luke)
31 - Schmidt - The Fantasticks - (Luke)
32 - Wolf - Ganymed - (Luke)
33 - Wagner - Die Meistersinger.. - (Luke)
34 - Wagner - Das Rheingold - (Luke)
35 - Alkan - Allegro Barbaro (no 5, Etudes Dans Tous Les Tons Majeurs) - (Johan)
36 - Massenet - Don Quichotte - (Johan)
37 - Schumann - Genoveva - (Johan)
38 - Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots - (Chrone)
39 - Bolling - Picnic Suite - (Luke)
40 - Byrd - Great Service - (Luke)
41 - Walton - Belshazzar's Feast - (Luke)
42 - Boulez - First Sonata - (Luke)
43 - Handel - Saul - (Luke)
44 - Glanville Hicks - The Transposed Heads - (Mark)
45 - Barraque - Piano Sonata - (Luke)
46 - Dvorak - Symphony no 3 - (Luke)
47 - Liszt - Hungarian Folksong - (Luke)
48 - Clementi - Sonata op 40/2 - (Luke)


Set by Chrone
1 - Gibbons - Cries of London - (Sforzando)
2 - Billings - Jargon - (Sforzando)
3 - Joplin - Treemonisha - (Mark)

Set by Karl
1 - Henning - Wedding Music - (Luke)

[(poco) Sforzando]

"I think I've missed Sfz 38 if it's been posted."

Probably a gap in my numbering scheme. This should be quite easy:

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

251 - Elgar - Une Voix dans le Désert

[Chrone]

251 - Elgar - Une Voix dans le Désert

So I'll go with LO251: Elgar, Carillon.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

So I'll go with LO251: Elgar, Carillon.

This is a fight to the death! 

[lukeottevanger]

Sorry, to say, then, Johan, that Chrone is the winner! 

Carillon - a kind of melodrama, music to accompany the reading of a poetic elegy for Belguim. Actually, not too bad, not the bits I've played anyway - a kind of restrained dignity that proves the Elgarian nobilmente isn't an entirely English-only affair.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

"Congratulations... Chrone...", he gasped, and expired.

0:)

[Chrone]

Yeeha!

And to continue the micro-roll I'm on:

Sfz38 is from "Les Huguenots" by Meyerbeer.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Yeeha!

And to continue the micro-roll I'm on:

Sfz38 is from "Les Huguenots" by Meyerbeer.

And so it is.