Complete Piano Works Sonatas, Individual Piano Pieces, Variations – Urtext by Dame Ethel Mary Smyth Piano Solo - Sheet Music

Name: Complete Piano Works
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Instrument:

Piano Solo

Genres:

Romantic Period

Composers:

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

Artist:

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

Series:

Women Composers and Arrangers

Format:

Collection / Songbook

Item types:

Physical

Usages:

School and Community

Detailed Description

Piano

SKU: BR.EB-9450

Sonatas, Individual Piano Pieces, Variations – Urtext. Composed by Dame Ethel Mary Smyth. Solo instruments; Softcover. Edition Breitkopf. Romantic; Late-romantic. Sheet Music. 96 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9450. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9450).

ISBN 9790004189276. 9 x 12 inches.

It is quite amazing that the piano works of the English composer Ethel Smyth had remained unpublished until 2003. All of them were written during her Leipzig study years after 1877, a period that Ethel Smyth herself described as the happiest time of her life. In Leipzig, she met such musical giants as Brahms, Clara Schumann, Dvorak, Grieg and Tchaikovsky. It should come as no surprise that these encounters left stylistic traces in Ethel Smyth's piano oeuvre.Smyth wrote the three piano sonatas in 1877, yet they are stylistically diverse: Smyth raced through a kind of musico-historical evolution. Her point of departure was Haydn and Mozart, who clearly inspired her sonata in C major. It was followed by the impassionate sonata in C sharp minor, which was inspired by the actress Marie Geistinger. The two-movement fragment in D major, reflecting Ethel Smyth's admiration for Brahms, concludes the sonatas.Most of the other piano pieces borrow their atmosphere and titles from Baroque models (dance movements, genre pieces) and are technically undemanding. They have been arranged in this edition in order of progressive difficulty.

It is quite amazing that the piano works of the English composer Ethel Smyth had remained unpublished to this day. She wrote all of these pieces during her years of study in Leipzig, after 1877.