Smyth: Complete Piano Works
Composer: Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) Editor: Liana Gavrila-Serbescu Instrumentation: Piano Binding: ISMN: 9790004189276 Size: 9.0 x 12.0 inches Pages: None Urtext / Critical Edition Look Inside! PDF Preview Description It is quite amazing that the piano works of the English composer Ethel Smyth had remained unpublished until 2003.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, Dvořák, 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, wh