Unsung extracts

[Reverie]

Some more extracts to listen to in these troubled times.

Eugenio Pirani
Witold Maliszewski
Aleksandr Tiniakov
& Edgar Stillman Kelley

There is a short visual glitch in the first extract lasting about 20 seconds or so. I blame it on the Corona Virus!

I know very little of Tiniakov. I wonder if anyone can do some more thorough research on him. Surely he must have composed a lot more than this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxsvhrduCg4&t=22s

[eschiss1]

Tinyakov: IMSLP page ; List of works ; Wikipedia page in Russian. Translating the latter however one sees no mention of any music, so I wonder if we're talking about a different Tiniakov than the 1886-1934 poet...

[tpaloj]

Thank you Reverie! Do you use any OCR (image recognition) methods to produce these extracts or are you creating them manually?

[Reverie]

All manually. It can be painstaking but at the same time I'm learning quite a bit about orchestration.

[dhibbard]

Aleksandr Tiniakov:   I can't find any information on him.. Ho/Feofanov does not list him anywhere.   

[Alan Howe]

Try IMSLP...

[Alan Howe]

Info on Eugenio di Pirani here:
https://etudemagazine.com/etude/1915/01/well-known-composers-of-to-day-eugenio-di-pirani.html

[adt]

Here's an extract from Rudolph Bergh's Tragische-Sinfonie (1905). I've completed the first movement's exposition in Sibelius/Note Performer.

I'd like to get some opinions from the community: is this worth continuing?

https://mega.nz/file/99EyXaaL#4jhEB5W_f4MWlX8wNTmXZSyYveCAA0zVv8LY0xfpWs8

[Alan Howe]

An unequivocal yes! Please continue! This is very exciting music, well worth exploring further.

[eschiss1]

Depending on how much you finish of the Bergh, please consider linking it on the IMSLP page (there's a line one can add called "NCRecordings" where one can link offsite freely available recordings) so people there can hear it as well as see the piece? Thanks

[tpaloj]

Thank you for the Bergh extract, it's a wonderful start.

This Scherzo is from Friedrich Markull's Symphony. His name is mentioned in the following article on raff.org about having possibly submitted this symphony to the Vienna 1862 symphony competition. The manuscript score is digitized by BSB.
http://www.raff.org/resource/krueck/vienna.htm

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f5hox7rhq0jlcsr/Friedrich%20Markull%20-%20Symphony%2C%20III%20Scherzo%20%28dorico%20np3%29.mp3?dl=0

The rest of the work? Not too much stuck out after skimming through the score. It seems like a perfectly passable Symphony in its own right. I liked the trio of this scherzo, and with the manuscript being so neatly written it was a pleasure to reproduce the movement. There's plenty of repeats but I included everything nonetheless.

[Alan Howe]

The Scherzo from Markull's Symphony is very attractive - thank you! Apparently he wrote two symphonies: No.1 in D major and No.2 in C minor. I'm assuming this Scherzo is from the latter...

[tpaloj]

Right, it's the c-minor Perhaps someone should record it: BSB also has a set of manuscript parts which are very neatly written and look fit for performance as is.

[Wheesht]

A Gavotte by Eugenio di Pirani can be found in a 1910 recording on gramofon online, an interesting source of very early audio documents from Hungary – played by the husband and wife piano duo Louis and Susanne Rée, whom I mentioned here on UC six years ago.

[dhibbard]

yes the OCR programs and photo scanner do not do well with Sibelius... has to be done manually.