Weissenberg: Piano Works

Description

This book presents pianists and ambitious amateur musicians with unfamiliar, surprisingly flamboyant and often witty compositions. These piano works are by one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth Century, one of the most recent all-round musical grand masters: Alexis Weissenberg, who was born in Sofia on 26 July 1929 and died in Lugano on 8 January 2012.

This first edition includes all Weissenberg's surviving completed piano works, apart from those written for two pianos and for piano duet, stage works and the Romance for piano and violin. Fingerings and pedal markings by Alexis Weissenberg are printed in italics (fingerings and allocation of notes between hands, too) or in large type (pedal markings); recommendations added by the editor are shown in roman font (fingerings and allocation of notes between hands) or in smaller type (pedal markings).

Pieces

• Theme with Variations
• Étude (1940)
• Album Leaf
• Sleigh Ride
• Étude (1943)
• The Manhattan Suite
• Oh, Bach, Dear Bach! Forgive me!
• An Overheard Telephone Conversation
• Thème libre et variations
• Cadenza to the 1st Movement to Mozart's Piano Concerto, K. 491
• Étude "Le regret"
• Tango "Mama Dracula"
• Viola Organista
• Cadenza to the 1st Movement to Mozart's Piano Concerto, K. 467
• Cadenza to the 3rd Movement to Mozart's Piano Concerto, K. 467
• Variation on a Popular Japanese Theme by, K. Yamada
• Exercise via Czerny