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Topic: Pieczonka found in America  (Read 1766 times)

Offline edvond

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Pieczonka found in America
on: August 01, 2008, 06:24:08 AM
Hi everyone

Have any of you seen the biography in Keyboard Companion’s web magazine of Albert Pieczonka, composer of the Tarantella?   He was a mystery composer but it turns out he was living in New York and was buried the day the Titanic sank.

Here is a link to it.

https://www.keyboardcompanion.com/summer2008/repertoire/repertoire1.htm

It has his dates, pictures, recordings and a sample score. 
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Offline thalbergmad

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Re: Pieczonka found in America
Reply #1 on: August 01, 2008, 11:25:56 AM
Quote from: edvond on August 01, 2008, 06:24:08 AM
and was buried the day the Titanic sank.


Was he on it?

That might indicate why he was buried on the same day.

Thal
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Offline birba

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Re: Pieczonka found in America
Reply #2 on: August 03, 2008, 06:06:10 AM
Hmmm.  Read the article and listened to the performance of the "famous" tarantella played by his great great great whatever.  Have to confess my ignorance.  I had never even heard of the man, much less of the tarantella.  INteresting, though.
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