Pieczonka found in America

[edvond]

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. 

[thalbergmad]

and was buried the day the Titanic sank.

Was he on it?

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

Thal

[birba]

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.