Oleg Felzer

Oleg Felzer (1939 in Azerbaijan – 1998 in New York) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet composer and teacher. He taught at the Baku Conservatory for many years before coming to New York City from Baku in 1989. His pieces have been commissioned by the Continuum Ensemble and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

List of works

Oleg Felzer's works in 1960-1998 is listed in Oleg Felzer scores and sound recordings.

• And Harold Again, for viola solo and chamber orchestra, dedicated to Berlioz (1982)
• Autographs on the Silhouettes, for violin, cello and piano (1987)
• Children Suite, for orchestra (1978)
• Dialogue, for viola, piano and orchestra (1970)
• Five Bagatelles, for piano (1986)
• Five Tanka, for tenor and chamber orchestra (lost) or for tenor and piano (1967)
• Four Diary Pages, for chamber orchestra, commissioned by the Nieuw Ensemble (1994)
• Four Piano Pieces, Op. 1, (1960-1962)
  • Watercolor, Etude, Imprint, March (lost)
• Four Songs (1969)
  • Bird, Red Bird also for piano
• The House That Jack Built, for mixed chorus and piano (1981-1982) and for children's chorus (1985)
• In Memoriam of Dmitri Shostakovich, for orchestra (1977)
• Intermezzo, for violin and piano (1961)
• Interrupted Song, sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (1998)
  • Completion by Faradzh Karayev exists
• Jubilatio, for violin, viola and piano (1979, 1983) and for violin, viola, and strings (1991)
• Piano Sonata No. 2 (1974)
• Pieces for Chamber Ensembles, Installment 1 (1980)
• Playing Bossa Nova, for two pianos (undated)
• Polyphonic Suite, for piano (1965)
• Prelude and Fugue, for organ (1970)
• Procession and Stroll (1976, 1978)

For orchestra. Includes parts for Stroll. See also Two Pieces for Piano: Procession and Stroll.

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 Protect Your Sons 1972

For bass or baritone, chorus, and piano.

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 Sinfonia 1966, 1972

For chamber orchestra. Copy of published score.

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 Sofia Waltz 1981

For two pianos.

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 Sonata for Harp 1985

Published.

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 Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano 1993 
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 Sonata Partita 1976

For organ.

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 Sonata for Violin Solo 1978 
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 Sonata for Solo Viola 1986 
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 Sonatina 1963

Copy of publication. Also titled Piano Sonata No. 1.

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 Strange Story 1962

For piano.

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 String Quartet 1968

Published.

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 Symphony No. 2 1970

For viola, piano, and orchestra. Arrangement for piano solo (no full score for orchestra).

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 Three Pieces 1978, 1987

For flute and guitar.

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 Touching Waltz And Postlude 1988

For piano. Copy of publication.

 Two Pastorales 
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 For Flute and Piano 1978 
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 For Flute, Cello and Piano 1979 
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 Two Pieces for Piano: Procession and Stroll 1976 
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 Veshomru II 1991

For recorder and two violins.

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 Vestige 1993

For clarinet, violin, and piano.

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 What Are Years? 1994

For chorus. Poem by Marianne Moore.

 Woe From Wit 1979

Musical. Libretto based on the play by Alexander Griboyedov.

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 Full Score 
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 Libretto 
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 Piano-Vocal Score 
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 Zaboul 1996

For chamber orchestra. Computer print.

• Vestige, for clarinet, violin, and piano (1993)
• Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano (1993)

External links

• Oleg Felzer scores and sound recordings, 1960-1998 Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts