Quiz: Mystery scores

[Luke]

Great piece. There are so many great pieces in that Debussy Tombeau volume

[BWV 1080]

Oh, it's the end of the Falla Homenaje, isn't it.

Yes, the inverse of Classicalgeek's French composer borrowing from Falla

[BWV 1080]

Here is a fugue subject

[classicalgeek]

The part is in the Pantomina, around the 18:00 mark (the Youtube linker does not seem to take a timestamp)

Really interesting to note Poulenc's take on it versus the original! With Falla, it has this nocturnal quality about it, and of course it's more in G major. With Poulenc, it becomes something completely different in the minor mode.

Yes, the inverse of Classicalgeek's French composer borrowing from Falla

Fascinating! The repertoire is full of composers paying tribute to others - intentionally or not!

Here is a fugue subject

The third and fourth measure seem really familiar! But I can't quite place it...

[krummholz]

The third and fourth measure seem really familiar! But I can't quite place it...

Ditto. I thought it might be either the C minor or Eb major fugue from Shostakovich Op. 87, but it's neither... who else wrote fugue subjects that themselves modulate to remote keys?

[LKB]

Not 100% positive as l don't have the work memorized completely, but l think it's from the final movement of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 6.

[BWV 1080]

Not 100% positive as l don't have the work memorized completely, but l think it's from the final movement of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 6.

No, not Shosty

[classicalgeek]

Here is a fugue subject

It reminds me a bit of Elgar... but we've had some 'mystery scores' of Elgar's recently, so I'm guessing it's not him.

[LKB]

Pretty sure it's not British. Prokofiev keeps coming to mind, since Shostakovich was ruled out.

[LKB]

Or maybe Rachmaninoff, I don't have the Symphonic Dances memorized either.

[krummholz]

Pretty sure it's not British. Prokofiev keeps coming to mind, since Shostakovich was ruled out.

Rats. I was going to suggest Sorabji.

[Luke]

Doesn't look/sound like Sorabji at all to my eyes/ears. But it does seem plausible that it could be British, I wouldn't rule it out.

[BWV 1080]

The excerpt I posted is written for one violin and it's a chamber music piece

[Luke]

I assumed that much, (that's not a piano layout, its the top line of a system and more likely violin than flute...) but it's still tricky!

[BWV 1080]

here is the final entry of the exposition

[krummholz]

Classical era or early Romantic from the sound of it, Eb major not C minor, but I can't place the composer.

[BWV 1080]

This is the frontplate from the first edition on IMSLP, which gives an indication when it might have been published

[Florestan]

You basically gave it away with this.

Reger wrote his String Quartet in E flat major, Opus 109, in 1909 and dedicated it to the Privy Connsellor, Professor Adolf Wach, the husband of Mendelssohn's youngest daughter Lili.

[BWV 1080]

You basically gave it away with this.

Reger wrote his String Quartet in E flat major, Opus 109, in 1909 and dedicated it to the Privy Connsellor, Professor Adolf Wach, the husband of Mendelssohn's youngest daughter Lili.

Fair enough, googled 'Adolph Wach' to see if it gave it away (which it did not) but did not google 'dedicated to adolph wach'

[Florestan]

Fair enough, googled 'Adolph Wach' to see if it gave it away (which it did not) but did not google 'dedicated to adolph wach'

I googled "Adolf Wach string quartet".