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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 04 June 2013, 09:08

Title: Early Piano Music by Wagner
Post by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 04 June 2013, 09:08
...from cpo:
http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/Richard-Wagner-1813-1883-Klaviersonaten-B-Dur-op-1-A-dur-op-4/hnum/3506395 (http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/Richard-Wagner-1813-1883-Klaviersonaten-B-Dur-op-1-A-dur-op-4/hnum/3506395)
Title: Re: Early Piano Music by Wagner
Post by: eschiss1 on Tuesday 04 June 2013, 17:10
Oh good! Thank you. Was just looking at a score of the A major a week ago or so (uploaded awhile ago to IMSLP.) I think there's a few other sonatas but they may be later works.
Hrm, plus 7 compositions on Goethe's Faust. Interesting.
Still, about contemporary with these works is also a fantasy - in F-sharp minor I think, will have to check. has probably been recorded a few times already. If not, even if so, that would be good to include in a volume 2, maybe... well... cart, horse... (and me not even the greatest Wagner fan who ever was, and then, I guess, mostly for Parsifal. Still, this is intriguing. Thanks again for pointing this out.)

(Double-checking- yes. Fantasia in F-sharp minor, WWV 22, 1831, pub.1905. The two early sonatas are

-- yep, indeed, WWV 21/Op.1, 1831, published 1862?, in B-flat; WWV 26, 1831, published 1960, in A.)