Quiz: Mystery scores

[Guido]

Thaks for the clues Luke - I will have a wee look in a sec. First I'll post some scores - no particular logic to them other than I like these pieces and have them as pdfs on my computer!

[Guido]

Hope none of these have been posted before...

[lukeottevanger]

The first one is Ligeti - Hungarian Rock

[lukeottevanger]

...and the last is Tchaikovsky, Rococo Variations

[(poco) Sforzando]

224 - is the VL Uirapuru?

[lukeottevanger]

Guido's third one here (fourth overall in his most recently set scores, including the Beethoven Triple Concerto of a few days back, and his 24th of all, I think) is Miaskovsky's 2nd Cello Sonata



Sforzando - no, that was Mark's original guess. But, as I said, that's very close to the right answer. It's another of that sort of exotically orchestrated Amazonian V-L piece

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Another stab at 249: Marc-André Hamelin, he is a composer, too, and a very famous pianist...

[lukeottevanger]

Your stab has found its mark.....

[Guido]

Luke - I ashamed to say I don't think I can name any of the pieces. The one with the crazy directions reminds me of something that Satie might do, but you said it was unexpected for the composer. I would guess that 240 is perhaps Feldman, but that is a complete guess. Its a very beautiful score though.

All your guesses are right of course - that Miaskovsky is a superb piece, don't you think?

[(poco) Sforzando]

Sforzando - no, that was Mark's original guess. But, as I said, that's very close to the right answer. It's another of that sort of exotically orchestrated Amazonian V-L piece

Danca da terra (1939) ?
Ruda (1951) ?
Genesis (1954) ?

You really think I know from VL ballets?

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

# 249 Hamelin - Preambulum to an Imaginary Piano Symphony

Just for the sake of completeness...

[lukeottevanger]

Johan - that's the one! An incredible looking piece, like most of Hamelin's scores.

Sforzando - its status as a ballet isn't precise, as I tried to imply in my clue - it's just as much a symphonic poem which was originally written with choreography in mind (though the source I just checked online puts it under the heading of ballet.) It's none of the ones you list, btw - Uirapuru was closest.

Guido - Yes, it is!

240 isn't Feldman, but you might like to apply that guess elsewhere.... 

[Guido]

240 isn't Feldman, but you might like to apply that guess elsewhere.... 

I don't want to make too many wild guesses, but is 232 a weird 3 piano reduction of a Feldman score then - Coptic Light perhaps? This is ridiculously guessy!!!

[lukeottevanger]

232 isn't a 3 piano reduction, but it is Feldman.

[Guido]

Luke make space in your inbox! I just remembered I had a message to send you.

[lukeottevanger]

Done

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I'm off to bed. It has been a very enjoyable day (I wrote a lot between the laughs...).

Hope your children grant you some sleep, Luke!

Johan

[lukeottevanger]

It's not their fault - if it wasn't for these scores, I'd be sleeping sweetly already!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

It's not their fault - if it wasn't for these scores, I'd be sleeping sweetly already!

And now I'm really off...

[Sean]

Bax - my Achilles heel (OK, one of them - if Achilles were a millipede that would start to account for the deficiencies in my score collection). Of Bax, I only have the piano music, plus a couple of chamber pieces.

Isn't sonata No.3 or 4 in the very unusual key of G# minor?