Piano Trio Literature
GUIDE TO THE PIANO TRIO, • • ' ., ' - J. ..... .... ., -� �.., ., LITERATURE T he Silve rtrust G uide To t he Pia Tr no io Li terat ure ;..{.. ... BY RAYMOND SILVERTRUST EDITOR OR THE CHAMBER MUSIC JOURNAL -1- Table of Contents Introduction and Preface ··································································································· 3 Trios for Violin, Viola and Piano ······················································································ 6 Trios for 2 Violins and Piano ·························································································· 12 Trios for Violin, Cello and Piano ···················································································· 14 Index······························································································································· 82 -2- A Guide to the Piano Trio Literature By Raymond Silvertrust Introduction and Preface incredible number of excellent pieces, many masterpieces in their First, I would like to apologize to my readers. I have hastily typed own right, awaiting a hearing. Of course, not every rediscovered this entirely myself. And as I have no editor and because I am not work by a little known composer is a masterpiece, but one must a good proof reader, you will find many mistakes, largely because remember that not everything Mozart, or even Beethoven, wrote I have felt, now in my seventh decade, that I am racing against the is a masterpiece. The sad thing is that many marginal chamber clock so to speak. I have wanted to make sure that I would be works get performed simply because they are the work of com- able to complete this guide. When it is done, and if I have time, I posers who became famous by virtue of writing operas or sym- will improve it, add to it and, of course, try to eliminate all of the phonies, while a truly superb piece of chamber music by a com- errors I have left behind.
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