Impromptu search

[storyseller]

I'm lookiong for impromptu pieces to assemble a recital program....

Besides the obvious ones (Schubert, Chopin, Scriabin) what other composers have written this kind of works?

Suggestions please....

[jpowell]

I had just written a really long and detailed reply, and hit some bad key on my computer and it got wiped out. I had made a big list that included Henselt, Hummel, Sibelius, Granados, and I don't know what else. I will try to do it again! It's a good idea you have here, I really think.

[furtwaengler]

^The great Jonathan Powell, stumbling on the keys!

[kelly_kelly]

Off the top of my head, I think Faure, Poulenc... but I should be able to come up with more.

[quantum]

There was one by Sibelius that got my attention over the radio.

[storyseller]

Thanks!

I just added a Kapustin one. There are actually three published but I cant find a recording of the other two.

It looks like there are not tooooo many impomtus out there... I just added a Kapustin one. There are actually three published but I cant find a recording of the other two.

More please?

[thalbergmad]

Searching my files..........

Aleneff, Alkan, Ansorge, Auric, Benjamin, Berkeley, Blanchet, Blumenfeld, Brull, Bulow, Carpenter, Casadesus, Chabrier, Chopin, Cui, Curzon, Dobrowen, Dohnanyi, Dreyschock, Dvorak, Farrenc, Faure, Glazunov, Godowsky, Gould, Granados, Heller, Henselt, Hiller, Hetu, Hofmann, Hummel, Jensen, Joseffy, Kalkbrenner, Kapustin, Korestchenko, Rimsky Korsakov, Kuhe, Leschetizky, Liadoff, Lyapunov, Liszt, Merikanto, Michalowski, Moscheles, Moszkowski, Myaskowsky, Ornstein, Pao, Paine, Palmgren, Pixis, Poulenc, pugno, Raff, Reinecke, Rozycki, Rubinstein, Sauer, Scharwenka, Schubert, Scriabin, Scott, Smetana, Sternberg, Stenhammer, Tausig, Thalberg, Tchaikovsky, Prosse, Reinhold, Reynolds, Sabaneev, Strumpel, Vorisek, Wieniawski, Yokoyama, Zarebski, Liebermann, Filstch, Falkenberg, Seeling Perger, Rossini, Arrau, Beliczay, Diemer, Dubios, Dohler, Egghard, Grodsky, Harries, Kessler, Lamond, Lambert, Lysenko, mackenzie, Malling, Mayer, Mirecki, Nielsen.....................

Thal

[storyseller]

lol thal.....

ok then to cut the list shorter.... As I'm already playing 3 Schubert 3 Scriabin and 3 Faure impromtus, I'm looking for composers that have written at least 3.   

 

[cloches_de_geneve]

The answer seems obvious to me: Chopin.

[thalbergmad]

Apart from the fact that storyteller wanted impromptus besides Chopin, I almost agree.

Thal

[communist]

Hugo Reinhold.....

[cloches_de_geneve]

Apart from the fact that storyteller wanted impromptus besides Chopin, I almost agree.
Thal

Well, yes, but the Chopin impromptus do not figure among the pieces listed for the recital (which are: Faure, Skrjabin, and Schubert). Moreover, there is little point in my view to look out for rare or original impromptus, when the original idea is to have an impromptu-only concert. And, besides, how many people know the Faure impromptus?

[healdie]

And, besides: how many people know the Faure impromptus?

I do

and they are better than the Chopin ones

[cloches_de_geneve]

I do

and they are better than the Chopin ones

This is pushing it a bit IMO, but Fauré's piano music is amazingly underrated or at least underperformed.

[healdie]

how about Donald martino?

if you are looking for somthing a bit more modern

[thalbergmad]

Moreover, there is little point in my view to look out for rare or original impromptus, when the original idea is to have an impromptu-only concert. And, besides, how many people know the Faure impromptus?

More the reason to include them then.

Thal

[cloches_de_geneve]

I think it would be worth considering including three impromptus by the first composer who ever composed impromptus. It's not Schubert, there were composers before him that wrote impromptus (forgot their names, can anyone help?), and one of them was obviously the first. That composer, I guess, should not be absent in such a recital if only for historical reasons.

[storyseller]

Yes, Worizek was the first to writte impromtus, I probably will have to include some of his works.

Hugo Reinhold, I can only find the sheets for just one impromptu - the most famous probably since it appears on Youtube..... anyone has more?

Chopin's impromptus are not his best works and will not be included probably - yes, Faure's are better. Not that Faure is better than Chopin as a composer of course!

[hodi]

ohh.... forgotten pieces are my scientific speciality !!

recommended by me:

Henselt - 4 Impromptus (all are great by the 3rd is my favorite)
Paderewski - Impromptu in F major
Scriabin - Impromptu Op.12 No.1

anton rubinstein also wrote some ones, check them out

[richard black]

Yes, Worizek was the first to writte impromtus

Um, I think that'll be Vorisek - just for the benefit of anyone trying to find the stuff in a catalogue!

[healdie]

Sterndale Bennet wrote some Impromtus

[is4adie]

Hi, my name is Alex? I am from Russia. Please help me, Where can I find free sheet music? Reinhold impromptu op.28 no.3? I have been in all big & smol shops in Moscov, but there is no this sheet music nowhere
somebody help me
P.S. sorry for my english..............

[is4adie]

Hi, my name is Alex? I am from Russia. Please help me, Where can I find free sheet music? Reinhold impromptu op.28 no.3? I have been in all big & smol shops in Moscov, but there is no this sheet music nowhere
somebody help me
P.S. sorry for my english..................   my e-male   4ainik@bk.ru     

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