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Rooted in the Norwegian Folk tradition, the piano music of Edvard Grieg offers spirited rhythms, novel harmonies and a refined lyrical sense. Included in this volume are the perennial favorites, Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and2, in Grieg’s own piano arrangement, and the Holberg Suite, as well as a rich selection of other pieces.Reproduced from authoritative editions published by C.F. Peters.
 
Concerto In A Minor Op.16
Four Album Leaves
Four Pieces
From Holberg’s Time
Humoresques
Moods Op.73
Nordraak’s Funeral March
Peer Gynt Suite No.1 Op.46
Peer Gynt Suite No.2 Op.55
Piano Pieces After His Own Songs
Poetic Tone-pictures
Sonata In E Minor Op.7
Three Piano Pieces
Two Elegiac Melodies
Two Melodies

Like Chopin, Scriabin made the piano the focus of his art. Among the supreme achievements of that art are the ten sonatas he composed between 1892 and 1913, works that abundantly display both his technical virtuosity and the exhilarating emotional gamut he ranged with such individuality.All ten of Scriabin’s sonatas are reprinted here from the authoritative Russian edition published in 1964. The first four reveal the influences of the pianism of Chopin and Liszt. The subsequent sonatas richly display Scriabin’s emerging impressionist techniques and his deep attraction to mysticism, which progressively conjured a more and more ethereal framework of sound, now brooding and introspective, now rhapsodic and exultant.In both their technical requirements and their emotional demands, these brilliant works will offer pianists a deeply satisfying challenge. Nonpianists will also enjoy this finely made edition, with which they may follow, music in hand, the growing number of loved and recorded performances of these masterpieces.
256 Pages

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The present volume reproduces — directly from an authoritative Russian edition — the famous cycle of solo piano works that comprises a summa of Liszt’s pianistic achievement, representing the maturation of his style over a period of decades. The Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) consists of the Première Année(Suisse); DeuxiemeAnnée (Italie) — including the formidable “Après une lecture du Dante” — and its supplement, Venezia e Napoli; and Troisième Année. Also included in this volume are a number of related pieces: “Lyon,” from Album d’un voyageur; the three pieces called Apparitions; the original version of Venezia e Napoli. In addition, new English translations of the Russian footnotes and of the editor’s preface have been provided. Printed in a sturdy, attractive, and inexpensive format, this rich cycle of masterly works for solo piano belongs in the library of every serious pianist or music lover.

Melding literary, philosophical, and political — as well as musical — influences in his works, Richard Wagner (1813-83) brought the expressive power of German romantic opera to new heights — indeed, his music was its crowning glory. George Bernard Shaw, a critic not given to hyperbole, acknowledged Wagner’s preeminent status in The Perfect Wagnerite “He was the summit of the nineteenth-century school of dramatic music.”
In Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner drew on a medieval German epic, the Nibelungenlied, and Norse mythology to create a new synthesis of music and drama on the largest scale. Of the four works in the Ring cycle, Götterdämmerung is perhaps the grandest and most sweeping of all. Although it is the final work in the series, the opera was actually first sketched out by Wagner in 1848, under the title Siegfrieds Tod. As it turned out, dramaturgic difficulties forced the composer to expand the tragedy of Siegfried into the four-part Ring. In 1851 he amplified Siegfrieds Tod with Der junge Siegfried (later Siegfried), and the following year wrote the texts of Die Walküre and Das Rheingold. In effect, the text of the Ring cycle was written in reverse order.
Wagner began composing the musical drafts of Götterdämmerung in 1869. Five years later, the work was complete — the capstone of an epic masterpiece that aroused near-religious fervor among its devotees. Shaw opined of the Ring as a whole: “The musical fabric is enormously elaborate and gorgeous,” while Grove’s Dictionary offers this comment on the special appeal of Götterdämmerung “It is in the epic and reflective passages of Götterdämmerung, the narratives and orchestral epic of the Funeral March, that there unfurls that ‘associative magic’ praised so highly by Thomas Mann.”
Götterdämmerung has never been available in the United States in full operatic score — until now. Reprinted directly from the rare 1877 first edition, this is the score that Wagner himself approved with the instrumentation he intended. Except for the original title page, the German-language front matter has been omitted in this edition for reasons of space and replaced by an English translation.
New admirers of Wagner, opera enthusiasts, and all music lovers can savor the full heroic impact of this majestic musical achievement in Dover’s characteristically inexpensive, superbly produced edition.