Quiz: Mystery scores

[Sean]

Extracts here from eleven solo keyboard works, ten for piano and one for harpsichord, by eleven composers, mostly if not all core repertory; many are near the start of the work, with some at the end. How you might work them out is a minor mystery to me...

A


B


C


D


E


F


G


H


I


J


K

[Karl Henning]

Well, I cannot see the images here . . . and I expect Luke & Larry will have them all taped out by the time I get to a computer where I can view the scores 

[Sean]

Karl, my library must have binned its orchestral short scores years ago, along with most of its other books...

[(poco) Sforzando]

I know most of these from years of playing them at the piano. So as not to cheat, these are off the top of my head:

B - Child falling asleep from Schumann's Kinderszenen
C - Definitely Liszt, probably one of the Liebestraume
D - Brahms, Capriccio in C from op. 119
E - I first wrote Haydn, but now I think it's stylistically more like Mozart, must check
* Edited to add: Ah yes, of course, the Mozart K 283 in G. The excerpt is in D major, which briefly threw me.
F - Schubert, one of the A major piano sonatas
G - slow movement of Beethoven op. 10/1
H - Scarlatti sonata in E
I - Joplin Maple Leaf Rag
K - a Chopin nocturne, I believe op. 9/3 in B

As for the others, my guesses are that A is by CPE Bach and J by Prokofiev. More sleuthing needed there.

[(poco) Sforzando]

No, not Prokofiev. The font is all wrong for his work, and I can't find this music in my book of the sonatas.

[Sean]

Amazing reply, Sforz, you must be one serious player.

You're right with these, of course

B  Schumann Scenes from childhood
D  Brahms Pieces for piano, op.119- No.3
G  Beethoven Piano sonata No.5
I  Joplin Maple leaf rag

Also very close with C, E, F, H and K.

Slightly further out with A and J, if not much; indeed not Prokofiev but the right nationality...

[(poco) Sforzando]

Amazing reply, Sforz, you must be one serious player.

You're right with these, of course

B  Schumann Scenes from childhood
D  Brahms Pieces for piano, op.119- No.3
G  Beethoven Piano sonata No.5
I  Joplin Maple leaf rag

Also very close with C, E, F, H and K.

Slightly further out with A and J, if not much; indeed not Prokofiev but the right nationality...

Not sure what you mean by "very close." I'm sure I have the Mozart, Chopin, and Schubert right. And I'm sure of the Scarlatti. Can't pinpoint the Liszt however; now that I checked it's not a Liebestraum, and the guy wrote only 6,000 pieces of music.

[Luke]

Got here too late as usual!    I'd have got the ones Larry got; the Liszt is one of the Consolations.

[Luke]

And the Chopin is definitely op 9/3, Larry's right.

[Sean]

A Haydn Piano sonata No.23
B Schumann Scenes from childhood
C Liszt Consolations No.3
D Brahms Pieces for piano, op.119- No.3
E  Mozart Piano sonata No.5
F  Schubert Piano sonata No.13
G  Beethoven Piano sonata No.5
H  Scarlatti Harpsichord sonata No.380
I  Joplin Maple leaf rag
J  Shostakovich Piano sonata No.1
K  Chopin Nocture No.1

I'm afraid for any more I'd have to go to Birmingham my nearby city for a good library. My local library is a disturbing experience, LPs gone, CDs gone, scores gone, computers in, moronic clientele in. You think I'm crackers with my ideas that there's little further to be said by our civilization?

Luke, I thought it was op.9/1, probably my mistake. Or the compilation book's.

[Luke]

op 9/1 is B flat minor. This one is no 3 for sure.

Just a guess - is J Kapustin? It's very densely written....but Kapustin's usually even denser than this. Still, there are similarities. OTOH, it doesn't remind me of any of his pieces specifically....

[Sean]

A new name to me...

[(poco) Sforzando]

A Haydn Piano sonata No.23
B Schumann Scenes from childhood
C Liszt Consolations No.3
D Brahms Pieces for piano, op.119- No.3
E  Mozart Piano sonata No.5
F  Schubert Piano sonata No.13
G  Beethoven Piano sonata No.5
H  Scarlatti Harpsichord sonata No.380
I  Joplin Maple leaf rag
J  Shostakovich Piano sonata No.1
K  Chopin Nocture No.1

I'm afraid for any more I'd have to go to Birmingham my nearby city for a good library. My local library is a disturbing experience, LPs gone, CDs,gone, scores gone, computers in, moronic clientele in. You think I'm crackers with my ideas that there's little further to be said by our civilization?

Luke, I thought it was op.9/1, probably my mistake. Or the compilation book's.

Oh, you're looking for numbers for the Schubert and Haydn. But those are very unreliable; different editions will use different number systems and the only reliable ones are the standard catalogues like Deutsch for Schubert. There are at least two and probably three standard numbering systems for Scarlatti as is.

As for libraries, I share your pain. There's a good reason I've held onto all my scores, purchased over a period of 50 years or more.

[Sean]

Yes indeed Sforz.

I'm good at being a critical bastard.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Got here too late as usual!    I'd have got the ones Larry got; the Liszt is one of the Consolations.

I must have a copy of that somewhere. I knew it looked familiar. But I wouldn't have known the Shostakovich. Luke, you and I will have start posting a new set sometime soon.

[Luke]

You're right. I've got a few new things which might be interesting...

[Luke]

Here are three to be going on with. More soon, I hope...

[Luke]

Just realised that I've set another part of the first of those new ones before - and it was identified, too, so it shouldn't be too hard to get again. I've set so many hundreds on this thread now that it's no surprise if I lose track!

As compensation, here's another one. Hope I've never set it before...

[Luke]

Two more...

[(poco) Sforzando]

Leave it to Luke to come up with scores no one can possibly get. The I am not a crook one has to refer to Tricky Dick Nixon, but the only Nixon opera I know about is Adams's Nixon in China, and I don't believe these passages occur there.

So I'm striking out on all counts.