Early 20Th Century Classical

Early 20th Century Classical

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A few highlights

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Background stories

Early 20^thCentury Classical – Title order Early 20^thCentury Classical – Composer order

The 200 MIDI files in this category include works by 20^thCentury composers such as Debussy, Fauré, Granados, Milhaud, Korngold, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Respighi. Some of the works are from the late 19^thcentury, giving a snapshot of music from the Romantics, through Impressionists to modern day compositions.

Pianists include Alexander Brailowsky, Ottorino Respighi, Claude Debussy; Ernő Dohnányi, Walter Gieseking, Percy

Grainger, Enrique Granados, Leo Ornstein, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Maurice Ravel. The composers in this list are usually playing their own works.

A few highlights

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Afternoon of a Faun (Prelude to) by Debussy played by Richard Singer (two rolls joined)

Allegro De Concierto (Concert Allegro) by Granados, played by Granados’ pupil Paquita Madriguera

Enigma Variations (complete) by Elgar, played by duo pianists Cuthbert Whitmore & Dorothy Manley

Flirtation in a Chinese Garden; Rush Hour in Hong Kong by Abram Chasins, played by the composer

Fountains of Rome by Respighi, played by the composer and Alfredo Casella Malagueña, by Ernesto Lecuona, played by the composer Naila Ballet Waltz, by Delibes, arranged by Dohnányi, played by Mieczyslaw Munz Pictures at an Exhibition (incomplete) by Moussgorsky played by Sergei Prokofiev Rhapsodies Op.11 (1 to 4), by Dohnányi, all but one (No.3) played by the composer Spanish Dances (Danza Espanolas) by Granados, played by the composer Turkey Op.18, No.3 (In The Garden Of The Old Harem) by Blanchet, played by Ervin Nyiregyházi

Waltzes Noble and Sentimental, by Ravel played by the composer.

Background stories

1. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) recorded four of his compositions for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano in 1905,

six years before his death and some years before he rose to fame. Historian Q. David Bowers writes that “some of the rolls which cost Welte-Mignon the most to produce earned them the least amount of money.” But, as Bowers also points out “Karl Bockisch [from Welte] knew talent when he heard it.”

2. Paquita Madriguera (1900-1965) was Andrés Segovia’s (1893–1987) second wife. She made no sound recordings. Madriguera entered the Granados Academy at age seven, studying with Granados. According to DuoArt literature: “In one of the last letters he ever wrote, Enrique Granados commended his favourite pupil, Paquita

Madriguera, saying she played his music better than he could.”

3. Carlos Valderrama (1892-1950) was born in Peru where he wrote a number of works based on Inca melodies,

three of which are in this category. He also recorded some of these works for Edison’s Diamond Disc in 1920.

4. Ervin Nyiregyházi (1903-1987) was a Hungarian child prodigy who was managed by his domineering mother. He was praised by many musicians, and sometimes compared to Liszt. He ‘escaped’ by moving to America, where he had a short career due to his complete inability to manage himself. He married 10 times, and declared himself

“addicted to Liszt, oral sex and alcohol.” Although he made disc recordings in the 1970s, his best recordings were

made for the Ampico reproducing piano in the mid 1920s.
5. Ernő Dohnányi (1877-1960) recorded on reproducing piano roll over a 20 year period from 1905 (for Welte) to
1925 (for Ampico). He wrote his four opus 11 Rhapsodies in 1903, and made recordings of three of these for Ampico, although only number 2 was issued at the time. The master rolls for Rhapsodies No. 1 and No. 4 were discovered in the late 1960s and reissued. All of the Rhapsodies played by Dohnányi are in this group of files.

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Early 20^thCentury Classical – Title order Composer order Pianist order

Early 20^thCentury Classical – Title order

Roll No.
Issue/ rec date

Granados Debussy

Pianist

Pesetzki

time midi file name

06 1925 9:19 Afternoon of Faun (Debussy) Singer LW 02 1926 1:41 Album Leaf (Chabrier), Cortot DA
Afternoon of a Faun, Prelude to
X-7074 X-7075
Singer

5830
Allegro De Concierto (Concert Allegro)
Allegro Concerto (Granados), Madriguera

Amberley Wild Brooks from "Decorations for Piano"

Arabesque No.2 in G Arabesque Op.7 No.1

Madriguera Scharrer
Debussy Medtner
5808 218
09 1916 2:47 Arabesque 2 (Debussy), Madriguera DA 03 1925 1:32 Arabesque 7-1 (Medtner) Scharrer DA
Aragon (Fantasia) Op.47 No.6 from "Suite Espagnole"
Albeniz Falla
Madriguera Falla

Aragonesa - Spanish Pieces No.1

Banjo Picker No.6 from "At the Fair" Sketches of American Fun

Barcarolle Op.37a No.6 (June, from "The Seasons")
Tchaikovsky Ornstein Faure
Reisenberg Ornstein Cortot
7128 50643 6241
06 1927 4:22 Barcarolle 'June', Reisenberg DA

Berceuse Op.56 No.1 from "Dolly Suite"
02 1920 2:26 Berceuse 56-1 (Faure), Cortot UK DA
Birds of Sadness or Oiseaux Tristes from "Miroirs" Suite for piano No.2
09 1923

7694
4:10 Birds of Sadness (Ravel) Ravel DA by

Op.13 No.4

Brigg Fair (An English Rhapsody)
Grainger and Leopold
Delius-Juhl Arensky
74439 01 1932 12:24 Brigg Fair (Delius) duo DA
By The Sea Op.52 No.4 allegro moderato G flat

Chanson d'Avril (Song of April)
BizetBuonamici

2733
02 1919 3:55 Chanson d'Avril (Bizet), Bauer DA
1912 3:33 Children's Corner 6, Debussy LW
12 1920 4:42 Childrens March, Grainger-Hough DA
1917 4:21 Clair de Lune (Debussy) Samaroff A
Children's Corner No.6 Golliwogg's Cake-Walk
Debussy Grainger
Debussy
Children's March "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Grainger & Hough
6368

Friml
Samaroff Friml
52305

528 12 1926 6:30 Concerto (Stravinsky)-1 DA

66713 11 1926 5:20 Cordoba (Albeniz), Lhevinne AA 6149 05 1919 1:48 Country Gardens, Grainger DA
Concerto mov 1 Largo, Allegro

Cordoba Op.232 No.4 from "Songs of Spain"

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Roll No.
Issue/ rec date

Cuban Rhapsody concert paraphrase on Cervantes' "Potpourri Of National Airs"
EchanizCervantes

Dance of Puck No.11 from "Preludes" Book 1
Debussy Scott
Debussy Scott
2738 6406 6133

04 1919 4:21 Danza Espanolas 1, Granados DA
Danza Espanolas No.1 Op.37 (Lenta)

Danza Espanolas No.10 (Valenciana)
Granados Granados Granados
Granados Granados Granados
5759 5758 5760
09 1916 3:19 Danza Espanolas 10, Granados DA 05 1916 4:20 Danza Espanolas 5, Granados DA 05 1916 4:59 Danza Espanolas 7, Granados DA
Danza Espanolas No.5 (Andaluza)

Danza Espanolas No.7 (Valenciana)

Egyptian Ballet No.1 (Ballet Egyptien) allegro non troppo; Luigini No.2 allegretto

Egyptian Ballet No.3 (Ballet

69193 09 1928 3:55 Egyptian Ballet 4 (Luigini) Black AB
Egyptien) Andante sostenuto Egyptian Ballet No.4 (Ballet Egyptien) Andante espressivo

El Albaicin "Iberia" Suite for piano, book 3, No.1

Granados
5982 5762
04 1918 4:25 El Fandango (Granados), Schelling DA

Elegie (Melodie), from Incidental Music To "Les Erinnyes", Concert Transcription

Elevation Op.76 No.2 (Song without Words)

0361 br 0362 br 0363 br 0364 br 0365 br

4:31 Enigma Variations-1 (Elgar) Duo DA 8:46 Enigma Variations-2 (Elgar) Duo DA 2:41 Enigma Variations-3 (Elgar) Duo DA 5:23 Enigma Variations-4 (Elgar) Duo DA 5:03 Enigma Variations-5 (Elgar) Duo DA 2:31 Entracte Waltz (Korngold) Korngold DA
Enigma Variations Part 1 Theme and variations 1-3
Elgar (arr four Whitemore and hands) Manley
12 1932 by

Enigma Variations Part 2 Variations 4-9
12 1932 by

Enigma Variations Part 3 Variation 10 (Dorabella)
12 1932 by

Enigma Variations Part 4 Variations 11-13
12 1932 by

Enigma Variations Part 5 Variation 14 (Nimrod)
Elgar (arr four Whitmore and hands)
12 1932

09 1923 by

Chabrier
Korngold Copeland Narinska Hofmann Carreno
080 br

from "Triakontameron"
Godowsky Moszkowski MacDowell
B-6911 12 1924 1:56
LW

5615
02 1923 2:25 Etincelles (Mzkwski), Hofmann DA
Etude de Concert Op.36 in F sharp
02 1915 3:15 Etude de Concert (MacDwll), Carreno DA

Suskind
62281 08 1923 2:55 Etude Heroique (Ltizky), Nyiregyhazi AA 64723 07 1925 4:42 Etude 2 (Reinhardt), Suskind AA 67133 02 1927 4:46 Etude 15-3 (Bortkiewicz) Rosenthal A
Etude No.2, B flat minor Etude Op.15 No.3
Reinhardt

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Roll No.
Issue/ rec date

Etude Tableaux (Picture Study) Op.39 No.4 B minor
Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff

Etude Tableaux (Picture Study) Op.39 No.6
60891 07 1922 2:28 Etude 39-6 (Rachmnf), Rachmnf AA
Evening In Granada (Debussy), Debussy

Palmgren
Debussy Bourne

Evening Whispers (Nocturne) Op.47 No.1

Fairy of the Fountain, The. Op.65 No.1 from "Les Reves Beach De Columbine"

Fairy Tale Op.34 No.3 in A

minor from "Fairy Tales"

Novaes
3842 6442
1923-24 8:35 Fairy Tales 6, 7 (Korngold) Heinemann RW 06 1921 7:32 Fantasia, Brazilian Hymn, Novaes DA
Fantasia Triumphal on a Brazilian National Hymn
Gottschalk
Ganz and Hutcheson
Finlandia Op.6 No.7 Flirtation in a Chinese Garden; Rush Hour in Hong Chasins Kong

Flirtation Chinese Garden, Rush Hr,

Chasins DA

Florence, Grand valse brillante Op.12
Liebling, E Griffes
Liebling Cooper
C-7276 02 1926 4:14 Florence (Liebling, E) Leibling, G LW 67621 05 1927 3:38 Fountain Acqua Paola (Griffes) Cooper AA
Fountain of the Acqua Paola Op.7 No.3 from "Roman Sketches"

Fountains of Rome Part 2. The Triton Fountain; The Fountain Of Trevi at Mid-Day
Casella & Respighi

C-7614 03 1927 3:40 Fountains of Rome-1 (Respighi) duo LW
Fountains of Rome Part 1. The Fountain Of Villa Guilia Respighi (Dawn)
Casella & Respighi

Fountains of Rome Part 3. The Villa Medici Fountain (Sunset)
Casella & Respighi

Franzosisch (Walzermasken No.14)
Godowsky Debussy
Pachmann Lortat
C-7207 12 1925 2:35 Franzosisch (Godowsky), Pachmann LW
6131 04 1919 2:57 Gardens in Rain (Debussy), Lortat DA
0219 br 04 1925 5:30 Gaspard de la Nuit.2, Ravel DA
Gardens in the Rain No.3 from "Estampes"

Gaspard de la Nuit No.2 Le Gibet

Grainger
Prokofiev Grainger
6253 6072
03 1920 2:52 Gavotte (Prokofiev) Prokofiev DA 11 1918 2:15 Gay But Wistful (Grainger) Grainger DA
Girl-Flaxen Hair (Debussy) Moiseiwitsch
Gay But Wistful No.2 from "In a Nutshell" Suite

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