Strasbourg piano book

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The Strasbourg piano book. Contemporary house music for piano four hands is an anthology of works for piano four hands created at the suggestion of the Working Group for House Music in the Reichsmusikkammer on the occasion of House Music Day 1943 . The focus of the House Music Day in 1943 was the city of Strasbourg . The works contained in the volume published in Edition Peters in 1944 are original contributions. It contains works by the German composers Cesar Bresgen , Harald Genzmer , Gerhard Frommel , Hans Brehme , Hermann Schroeder , Heinrich Spitta , Leo Justinus Kauffmann , Hans Lang , Ernst Lothar von Knorr , Walter Girnatis , Julius Weismann and Karl Höller .

content

  1. Bresgen, Cesar: Cuckoo Suite
  2. Genzmer, Harald: Slow movement from the Sonata in D major
  3. Frommel, Gerhard: Impromptu
  4. Brehme, Hans: Gavotte
  5. Schroeder, Hermann: Rondino capriccioso
  6. Spitta, Heinrich: Solemn dance
  7. Kauffmann, Leo Justinius: Bagatelle
  8. Lang, Hans: Little May Concert - Music about old spring songs
  9. Knorr, Ernst-Lothar from: Introduction and Allegro
  10. Girnatis, Walter: Small suite
  11. Weismann, Julius: Rondo from the Sonatina op.142
  12. Karl Höller: Little Sonata, Work 32 / I

See also

Bibliographical information

  • Strasbourg piano book. Contemporary house music for piano four hands. Edition Peters No. 4532 (EP 11530)
  • The Strasbourg piano book in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 1003649076

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Just, Herbert : The promotion of house music and the implementation of the "Day of German House Music" - suggestions, experiences and tools. Berlin, Working Group for House Music in the Reich Music Chamber, 1938
  2. ↑ DNB
  3. ↑ According to the authors McGraw and Fischer, the playbook of contemporary original compositions , Leipzig VEB Peters, published by the same publisher in 1957 is identical in content except for one piece, the ceremonial dance by Heinrich Spitta, which was later replaced by Günter Raphael's romantic dance image ; Cameron McGraw and Christopher C. Fisher: Piano Duet Repertoire, Second Edition: Music Originally Written for One Piano, Four Hands (Indiana Repertoire Guides). 2016, p. 596 ( limited preview in Google Book search)