TAUSIG Transcriptions!

[dnephi]

Ok...

Faust Symphony?

Dante Symphony? 

Any Symphonic Poems he got around to?

Anything else you'd care to share?

Thanks a bunch,

Dan

[bench warmer]

Go here  https://www.vkgfx.com/ 

Under Schubert there's the Schubert-Tausig-Horowitz: March Militaire.

[thalbergmad]

I will upload a little zip file on megaupload for you.

Just be a couple of hours.

Thal

[thalbergmad]

I will try again tomorrow, megaupload is slow at the mo.

I have already posted a fair bit of Tausig, but i might as well do the lot at once.

Thal

[thalbergmad]

https://www.megaupload.com/?d=FIB55ZHS

[dnephi]

Absolutely gigantic file!  Is that all pdfs?

Dan

[thalbergmad]

Mostly pdf's, but a couply of Zips and DJVU's.

I am very bad at filing things in the right place. I might have missed some.

Thal

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Heh. That file is enormous - therefore I have to investigate it  I'm sure my Tausig collection will be expanded by this. Thanks 

[nicco]

https://www.megaupload.com/?d=FIB55ZHS

Thal - you are le champion

[thalbergmad]

I am a big fan of Tausig. I consider some of his transcriptions superior to those of Liszt and Thalberg.

Regretfully, much of his output is beyond my own pianistic ability, especially the Halka, which i spent a month on but did not get very far.

The 5 Stauss Waltz transcriptions are absolute gems and anybody thinking of entering the Romantic Transcription genre should give them a whirl. His take on Weber's Invitation to the Dance is a fantastic work and his alterations to the Chopin E Minor Concerto is more than sufficient to irritate the "purists".

I wonder sometimes what heights Tausig would have risen to if he had not died so young. As a pianist, many contempory pianists thought him superior to Liszt.

Might i be so bold as to suggest that his Hungarian Rhapsody is as good as anything Liszt wrote?

Thal

[connorbarrownx]

https://www.megaupload.com/?d=FIB55ZHS

Hi, do you still have this? The link is no longer working. I don't think these are available anywhere else.

[ash120]

Question - recently I have picked up Tausig's Introduction + Tarantella (Op. 2) - very nice piece. I can't figure out if Tausig actually composed it or if it was transcribed by him. Was he the original composer?

This tarantella and "The Smuggler" (Schumann/Tausig) are my favorites by Tausig!

[dizzyfingers]

It's his own work, as far as I can tell, reading a few sources online.
Google's AI:
"Carl Tausig’s Introduction and Tarantella, Op. 2 is a virtuoso piano piece composed around 1855, reflecting the intense, technical style of Franz Liszt's circle. It features a dramatic, slow introduction leading into a rapid, fiery Tarantella in A minor, characterized by complex, fast-paced technical demands, including rapid arpeggios, detached playing, and a high-energy, chromatic conclusion."

One of the YT videos has this extended BIO:

"Karol (or Carl) Tausig was the son of Aloys Tausig (1820 - 1885), a student of Thalberg, and a minor composer. When the boy was 14, Aloys took him to Liszt, who immediately encouraged him and took him on as a student. Liszt took Carl on concert tours and taught him counterpoint, composition, and orchestration as well as piano.

Carl debuted as a pianist in 1858, perhaps a bit early. His technical abilities were amazing, but he lacked artistic balance and his playing was wild and exaggerated. Nevertheless, he toured successfully. In 1862, he decided to start an orchestra for the purpose of bringing the "Philistines" the latest in advanced music. Then, as now, the public did not flock to a series of "new music concerts" and the idea was a financial flop. Critical reports also say the performances were not entirely successful from an artistic point of view, either. At this point, Tausig withdrew for a few years from the public eye. In 1864, he married Seraphine von Vrabely (1841 -1931), a marriage that did not last long.

Tausig returned to the concert platform a changed artist. He had studied and rethought his approach and now returned to the public receiving acclaim as a balanced, mature artist, still wowing the crowd with his pianistic legerdemain, but now backing it up with artistic depth. Rather than showing off, he made it a point to show no more effort when performing the spectacular bits than when playing the easier parts. He had a wide repertoire and could practically play any well-known piece by any important composer from Scarlatti to Liszt on demand, from memory.

In 1865, he formed an academy for advanced piano students and also used the considerable proceeds from his nonstop concertizing to help support contemporary music, meaning that he loaned Richard Wagner money. Tausig was also of great assistance to Wagner in conceiving and devising the subscription scheme by which Wagner's Festspielhaus in Bayreuth was financed.

During the decade, he wrote numerous transcriptions and arrangements for piano, many of which are still played. His original compositions were the sort of display work expected of a major star of the piano at the time. All of these works are highly derivative of Liszt, while many of his transcriptions are over-arranged, although his Berlioz and Wagner transcriptions are very suitable and effective. He also wrote Tägliche Studien (Daily Etudes) for the pianist, still regarded as extremely valuable to all advanced pianists.

In 1870, he wrote a set of two concert etudes which show a sudden increase in depth and an interest in making his point by artistic rather than athletic means. It is likely that he regarded these as a breakthrough in his composing, for although he had numerous publications out already, he designated this set as his Op. 1. It seems likely that this was the start of an artistic development as a composer to parallel his sojourn as a pianist a few years earlier. But we'll never know, for Tausig died at the age of 29 of typhoid."