Quiz: Mystery scores

[lukeottevanger]

LO 342

[lukeottevanger]

LO 343 - Berlioz, Romeo et Juliette

[lukeottevanger]

LO 344

[lukeottevanger]

LO 345

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

# 304/330 - must be Busoni-related...

[lukeottevanger]

Yes, they are....

So, a more useful list:

TTT
First list, in two parts:
Part one
and
Part two

Second list (one long part)

New list:

Set by Luke
293 - Tchaikovsky - Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem - (Sforzando)
294 - Tovey - Piano Concerto - (Johan)
295 - Wagner - Fantasy in F# minor - (Sforzando)
296 - Wagner-Wolf - Paraphrase über "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" - (Johan)
297 - Valen - Piano Sonata no 2 - (Johan)
298 - ? -
299 - Wolf-Ferrari - Violin Sonata in A minor - (Sforzando)
300 - Theo Ysaye - Piano Concerto op 9 - (Johan)
301 - Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto no 2 - (revealed by Luke)
302 - Tchaikovsky - The Tempest - (Sforzando)
303 - Cage - ? - (Sforzando)
304 - Busoni - Concerto for piano and strings op 17 - (Johan)
305 - ? -
306 - Beethoven - Adagio (mandolin/piano) - (Sforzando)
307 - Berg - Four pieces for clarinet and piano - (Sforzando)
308 - Arensky - Piano Trio no 1 - (Sforzando)
309 - Antheil - Sonata no 2 'The Airplane' - (Greg)
310 - ? -
311 - Berstein - Wonderful Town - (Sforzando)
312 - Barber - Hesitation Tango - (Guido)
313 - Carpenter - Krazy Kat - (Sforzando)
314 - Bax - Harp Quintet - (Guido)
315 - Berg - Abschied - (Johan)
316 - Bernstein - La Bonne Cuisine - (Sforzando)
317 - Bruckner - Christus factus est pro nobis - (Johan)
318 - ? -
319 - ? -
320 - ? -
321 - ? -
322 - ? -
323 - ? -
324 - ? -
325 - ? -
326 - Prokofiev - Classical Symphony - (Sforzando)
327 - Shostakovich - Fugue in D flat major (from the 24) - (Sforzando)
328 - Sibelius - Symphony no 3 - (Mark)
329  - Copland - Piano Fantasy - (Sforzando)
330 - Stevenson - Prelude, Fugue and Fantasy on Busoni's Faust - (Johan)
331 - ? -
332 - ? -
333 - Schubert - G major quartet - (Sforzando)
334 - Nielsen - Flute Concerto - (Johan)
335 - Haydn - Farewell Symphony - (Sforzando)
336 - Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius - (Johan)
337 - Dukas - L'Aprenti Sorcier - (Sforzando)
338 - Strauss - Die Frau ohne Schatten - (Sforzando)
339 - Berlioz - Harold in Italy - (Sforzando)
340 - Stravinsky - Threni - (Sforzando)
341 - ? -
342 - Kodaly - ? - (Johan)
343 - Berlioz - Romeo et Juliette - (Sforzando)
344 - ? -
345 - ? -


Set by Greta
1 - Berio - Sequenza IXb - (Luke)
2 - Dallapiccola - Quaderno musicale di Annalibera - (Luke)
3 - Stravinsky - Petrouchka - (Luke)
4 - Brahms - op 119/3 - (Luke)
5 - Adams - Harmonielehre - (Luke)
6 - Sibelius - Kullervo - (Luke)
7 - Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy - (Chrone)

Set by Chrone:
4 - Rogers - Guadalcanal March - (Mark)
5 - Hermann - Vertigo - (Luke)

Set by Sforzando
49 - Faure - Violin Sonata no 2 - (Luke)
50 - Sullivan - The Mikado - (Mark)
51 - Schutz - Ich ruf zu dir - (Luke)
52 - Puccini - La Rondine - (Luke)
53 - Puccini - Messa di Gloria - (Luke)
54 - Prokofiev - Piano Concerto 4 - (Luke)
55 - Peter Susser - Quatre Bêtises - (revealed by Sforzando)
56 - Copland - 8 Dickinson Songs - (Luke)
57 - Hindemith - The Four Temperaments - (Luke)
58 - Bernstein - Songfest - (Luke)
59 - Bernstein - Songfest - (Luke)
60 - Grieg - Slatter - (Luke)
61 - Beethoven - Kakadu Variations (Luke)
62 - Beethoven - Fugue for string quintet - (Luke)
63 - Prokofiev - Overture on Hebrew Themes - (Mark)
64 - Hindemith - Der Schwanendreher - (Luke)
65 - Verdi - Quartet - (Luke)
66 - Sullivan - Cox and Box - (Luke)
67 - Bernstein - Candide - (Luke)
68 - Sondheim - A Little Night Music - (Luke)
69 - Gershwin - An American in Paris - (Luke)
70 - Egge - Symphony no 3 (Louisville) - (Luke)
71 - Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad (Luke)
72 - Falla - El retabloe de Maese Pedro - (Luke)
73 - Wolf-Ferrari - IL segreto di Susanna - (Luke)
74 - Beethoven - Ah, perfido - (Johan)
75 - Berlioz - La Mort de Cleopatre - (Luke)
76 - Boyce - Symphony no 1 - (Luke)


Clues to Luke's remaining ones

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

# 304 is apparently a German (?) Piano Quintet in D minor. But by whom? It's very tonal and straightforward.

[(poco) Sforzando]

LO 338 - Strauss, Die Frau ohne Schatten

and in full, the letter to my great-great-great uncle from which this scrap comes.

I hope you have that letter well-insured and archivally framed. On the commercial market an autograph letter from a major composer including a musical quotation could be worth at least a thousand pounds. I would have it appraised by a qualified dealer.

[lukeottevanger]

Unfortunately, I only have a copy - the letter was in the possession of my great aunt, I think: she had many copies of it, and of another letter from Strauss to Buxbaum (also letters to him from Lotte Lehman and Elisabeth Schumann), but the whereabouts of the originals are not known. 

[lukeottevanger]

# 304 is apparently a German (?) Piano Quintet in D minor. But by whom? It's very tonal and straightforward.

Not a piano quintet. That's a full string section. And you know who the composer is already. 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I admit that I found it strange it said Violoncello/Kontrabass.

I have a hard time discovering what it is, though. I'm scouring the whole work catalogue (the so-called  Kindermannverzeichnis http://www.rodoni.ch/busoni/kindermann.html), but can't find a work that fits...

Found it: Concerto per pianoforte accompagnamente di quartetto ad arco, Op. 17, in D minor

[lukeottevanger]

Yes, indeed. And he composed it shortly before his 12th birthday. Which accounts for the 'very tonal and straightforward' appearance, I suppose!

[lukeottevanger]

So 330 is a (very very closely) Busoni-linked work. I'd advise you to think carefully about that one, Johan, because if you do you'll probably get it.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

First: Théo Ysaÿe, # 300, his Piano Concerto op.9 (reduced for two pianos)

Later: @ 330 Could be Stevenson... Berceuse symphonique??! (Never heard it)

[lukeottevanger]

Of course - told you it was obvious!

[lukeottevanger]

Later: @ 330 Could be Stevenson... Berceuse symphonique??! (Never heard it)

Yes it is, but not the Berceuse (which is for orchestra, though is of course titled in reference to Busoni). Busoni is the composer to whom Stevenson is closest, but this piece is where the bond is strongest of all, especially amongst Stevenson's major works. Think on - you ought to get this.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

# 330 - Stevenson, Prelude, Fugue & Fantasy on themes from Busoni’s "Faust"...

[lukeottevanger]

Yes - of which work Stevenson's 1st Piano Concerto (which you listened to only the other day!) is to a large extent a transcription. 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Yes - of which work Stevenson's 1st Piano Concerto (which you listened to only the other day!) is to a large extent a transcription. 

Yes, I listened to the Faust Triptych a few weeks ago, but only the once... I didn't know it was a transcription. It'll be interesting to compare the two works (I have the piano piece too, on CD).

# 303 Cage - Song Books?

# 320 Anthony Philip Heinrich - A Chromatic Ramble (1820)

[(poco) Sforzando]

Unfortunately, I only have a copy - the letter was in the possession of my great aunt, I think: she had many copies of it, and of another letter from Strauss to Buxbaum (also letters to him from Lotte Lehman and Elisabeth Schumann), but the whereabouts of the originals are not known. 

Then, I'm afraid, what you have is of no commercial value. But it would be worth while to track down those originals, and I'm not speaking only or even primarily of their monetary worth. They could add to our understanding of the composer.