GREAT WORKS FOR PIANO FOUR HANDS
EDITED BY RONALD HERDER

PAGES: 224
PUBLISHER: DOVER PUBLICATIONS
SERIES: DOVER CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC: FOUR HANDS
PUBLICATION DATE: 16TH MAY 2012
TRIM SIZE: 9.25 X 12.2 IN
FORMAT: PAPERBACK
BISACS:
MUSIC / GENRES & STYLES / CLASSICAL
MUSIC / PRINTED MUSIC / PIANO & KEYBOARD REPERTOIRE

DESCRIPTION:
-PIANISTS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS WILL SAVOR THE VAST VARIETY OF STYLES IN THIS DELIGHTFUL COMPILATION OF WORKS BY MASTERS OF THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES. THESE MAJOR COMPOSITIONS FOR PIANO FOUR HANDS ENCOMPASS EVERYTHING FROM THE CLASSICAL SPIRIT OF BEETHOVEN`S SPRIGHTLY THREE MARCHES,OP. 45, TO THE PIQUANT DANCE RHYTHMS OF MAX REGER`S THREE BURLESQUES FROM OP. 58 AND THE IMPRESSIONISTIC SOUND-PAINTING OF BOTH DEBUSSY`S HUSHED
-PRELUDE TO 'THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN' AND RAVEL`S VIBRANT RAPSODIE ESPAGNOLE.
INCLUDED AS WELL ARE BEETHOVEN`S EIGHT VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY COUNT WALDSTEIN AND SONATA IN D,OP. 6; DVORÁK`S SIX LEGENDS FROM OP. 59; JANÁCEK`S CHARMING MORAVIAN DANCES; RACHMANINOFF`S BARCAROLLE AND ITALIAN POLKA (GREAT FUN TO PLAY!); FOUR OF FLORENT SCHMITT`S NOSTALGIC WALTZES CALLED REFLECTIONS OF GERMANY; AND TCHAIKOVSKY`S LOVELY SLEEPING BEAUTY WALTZ (TRANSCRIBED BY RACHMANINOFF).

-THESE ENGAGING MASTERWORKS FOR PIANO FOUR HANDS ARE REPRINTED FROM AUTHORITATIVE EDITIONS, SUPPLEMENTED BY A HELPFUL, COMPREHENSIVE GLOSSARY OF FRENCH AND GERMAN TERMS.

-DOVER ORIGINAL.

CONTENTS:
-LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
EIGHT VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY COUNT WALDSTEIN
'SONATA IN D MAJOR, OP. 6'
I. ALLEGRO MOLTO
II. RONDO: MODERATO
'THREE MARCHES, OP. 45'
1. ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO
2. VIVACE
3. VIVACE

-CLAUDE DEBUSSY
'PRELUDE TO 'THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN' TRANSCRIBED BY MAURICE RAVEL'

-ANTONÍN DVORÁK
'SIX LEGENDS, FROM OP. 59'
III. ALLEGRO GIUSTO
V. ALLEGRO GIUSTO
VII. ALLEGRETTO GRAZIOSO
VIII. UN POCO ALLEGRETTO E GRAZIOSO
IX. ANDANTE CON MOTO
X. ANDANTE

-LEOS JANÁCEK
MORAVIAN DANCES
I. TROJÁK
II. SILNICE
III. TETKA
IV. KUKACKA
V. TROJKY
VI. STARODÁVNÝ
VII. KALAMAJKA
VIII. HOLUBICKA
IX. SEKERECKA
X. ROŽEK
XI. KONOPE
XII. CELADENSKÝ I

-SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
'BARCAROLLE, OP. 11, NO. 1'
ITALIAN POLKA

-MAX REGER
'THREE BURLESQUES, FROM OP. 58'
III. 'AUSSERST LEBHAFT, MIT HUMOR'
V. AUSSERST SCHNELL UND FLÜCHTIG
VI. SO LEBHAFT UND ÜBERMÜTIG ALS NUR MÖGLICH

-FLORENT SCHMITT
'REFLECTIONS OF GERMANY: WALTZES, OP. 28, BOOK ONE'
1. HEIDELBERG
2. COBLENTZ
3. LÜBECK
4. WERDER

-PETER ILYITCH TCHAIKOVSKY
'WALTZ FROM THE BALLET THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, OP. 66 TRANSCRIBED BY THE COMPOSER '

-MAURICE RAVEL
RAPSODIE ESPAGNOLE
TRANSCRIBED BY THE COMPOSER
I. PRÉLUDE À LA NUIT
II. MALAGEÑA
III. HABANERA
IV. FERIA