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‘The Planets’, originally a suite for Orchestra, was composed between 1914 and 1916 by Gustav Holst. Holst was always interested in astrology and therefore was inspired to take the seven planets of the solar system to create a suite. Themes like ‘Mars, the bringer of war’ and ‘Venus, the bringer of peace’ are on the one hand proof that Gustav Holst partially also considered the mythological features of the Gods and Goddesses. On the other hand these themes show that ‘The Planets’ was created under the impression of World War I.
This edition of ‘The Planets’ is an edition for Piano solo. The editor Katsuma Nakajima set a high value on feeling the orchestral power in the edition for Piano as well. The piano version is therefore similar to the original version and contains as well all seven themes.
The seven themes are:
‘Mars, the bringer of war’, ‘Venus, the bringer of peace’, ‘Mercury, the winged messenger’, ‘Jupiter, the bringer of jollity’, ‘Saturn, the bringer of old age’, ‘Uranus, the magician’ and ‘Neptune, the mystic’.
 
In­stru­men­ta­tion: piano
Edi­tion: Sheet music, Introduction in Japanese and English
Lan­guage: Japanese • English

Repertoire suitable for the auditions of the National Guild of Piano Teachers. This prestigious new series is a classified compilation of Guild members’ original piano solos with appropriate Musicianship Phases of scales, chords, cadences and arpeggios. Includes 12 levels in a 6-book series.

Chaconne
Sonata
Toccata-Troncata
Invention

Tchaikovsky wrote his second piano sonata in 1878 and dedicated this Grande Sonate to the notable pianist Karl Klindworth, his colleague at the Moscow Conservatoire, who prepared the manuscript for publication. Your wonderful sonata really does not need any corrections by me, Klindworth wrote to the composer, though he did in fact make some changes to the notation, dynamics, variations in tempo, articulation and phrasing. Whereas all previous music editions have been based on the earliest published editions of Tchaikovsky’s work, this new edition is the first to present the original version based on Tchaikovsky’s autograph engraver’s score, which is kept in the Glinka Museum in Moscow.
75 pages, 23 × 30.5 cm

Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Series: Edition Schott
Year of composition: 1962
Page number: 16

Ullman‘s seven Piano Sonatas were written between 1936 and 1944. Though rediscovered as recently as 1990, they are now available in a number of recordings. Neo-classical in approach, the piano writing and the use of polytonality places them closer to Skriabin and Prokofiev than to the works of Ullman‘s teachers Arnold Schoenberg and Alois Hába – this applies also to the Piano Concerto, written during the same period. The numerous quotes from Mozart, Wagner, Mahler, and Dukas to folksongs and tunes from operettas are particularly interesting in this context.
Ullmann, V: Piano Sonatas Vol. 2 – No. 5-7
Pages: 92