Godowsky's piano arrangements by Old Masters

The Old Masters piano arrangements (no work title) are Leopold Godowsky's re -creations of baroque music .

"Airs of the Eighteenth Century"

1. Exaudets's minuet
2. Lisette
3. La mère bontemps
4. Maman, dites-moi
5. Bergère légère
6. Pergolesi: Que ne suis-je la fougère
7. Venez, agréable printemps

See also : André-Joseph Exaudet  and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

"Renaissance Suite"

Free arrangements of old masterpieces for piano, in some editions “Dedicated to my highly esteemed friend WJ Safonoff”. Eight of the 27 works were not published.

1st book

Jean Philippe Rameau , published December 28, 1906.

1. Sarabande in E major
2. Rigaudon in E major
3. Minuet in A minor
4. Minuet in G minor / G major
5. Elegy (over two gigs ) in E minor
6. Tambourine in E minor

2nd book

Published December 28, 1906.

1. Johann Schobert : Minuet in E flat major
2. Arcangelo Corelli : Pastorale (Angelus) in G major
3. Jean-Baptiste Lully : Sarabande in E minor
4. Lully: Courante in E minor
5. Jean-François Dandrieu : Capriccio (Le Caquet) in E major
6. Jean-Baptiste Loeillet de Gant : Gigue in E major

3rd book

Rameau, published 22/28 April 1909.

1. Sarabande in A minor
2. Musette en Rondeau in E major
3. Gavotte in A minor / A major

See also : musette (baroque dance)  and rondo (music)

4th book

Domenico Scarlatti : Concert Allegro in A major

See also

• List of paraphrases, transcriptions, arrangements and cadences by Leopold Godowsky

source

• Jeremy Nicholas : Godowsky - a pianist for pianists. A biography of Leopold Godowsky. With a foreword by Jorge Bolet . Translated from English by Ludwig Madlener. Staccato-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-932976-50-6 , pp. 231-232.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vasily Ilyich Safonov
2. ↑ Numbers 16-18 of Book 3 were not published.
3. ↑ Numbers 20–24 of Book 4 were not published.