Amedee Mereaux 60 Grand Etudes

[lontano]

If anyone is interested, I have a PDF of the complete score of Mereaux's 60 Grandes Etudes - a somewhat legendary opus. Marc Hamelin has pretty much poo-pooed these technically challenging works as "music for the fingers, rather than the ears" (or something like that) and will not likely record them, but they are interesting nonetheless.

Unfortunately the file is just over the 20MB limit for PianoStreet, so if enough people are interested I can place it on my fileserver.

L.

[furtwaengler]

Is this different from what IMSLP already has? I'm not stopping you either way.

[thalbergmad]

The World famous Caprotti decided to release his scan publicly recently, so I assume this is the same one on IMSLP and Pianophilia.

I cannot imagine anyone else having the patience to digitalise it.

He is lovely, but rather mad.

Thal

[ahinton]

The World famous Caprotti decided to release his scan publicly recently, so I assume this is the same one on IMSLP and Pianophilia.

I cannot imagine anyone else having the patience to digitalise it.

He is lovely, but rather mad.

Who, Caprotti or Méreaux?(!)

I have to admit that I've ploughed through some of these Méreaux pieces and they seem to me to be at best of passing historical interest but of precious little musical value.

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

Who, Caprotti or Méreaux?(!)

Possibly both, but i have only had the pleasure of meeting one of them.

Thal

[thalbergmad]

I have to admit that I've ploughed through some of these Méreaux pieces and they seem to me to be at best of passing historical interest but of precious little musical value.

Yeh, a bit like Schumann.

[ahinton]

Yeh, a bit like Schumann.

If you've looked at any Méreaux and concluded that it sounds anything remotely like Schmann, I'd be astonished, frankly...

Best,

Alistair

[lontano]

The World famous Caprotti decided to release his scan publicly recently, so I assume this is the same one on IMSLP and Pianophilia.

I cannot imagine anyone else having the patience to digitalise it.

He is lovely, but rather mad.

Thal

Yes, I now see that what I found elsewhere is the same that was recently posted by Caprotti on IMSLP, so there's no reason to for me to do the same.

[thalbergmad]

Caprotti rules the scanning world

[alpacinator1]

[felixblumenfeld]

Thanks for enabling us to listen to at least one etude from this huge set of sixty.

[argerichfan]

Yes, thanks for posting that. 'Twas an interesting listen, though I humbly wonder if the time it would take for a human pair of hands to learn that up to speed would be better utilized elsewhere. 

[richard black]

Not unattractive. The piano writing is obviously ridiculously difficult, and I do mean ridiculously. It occurs to me that one could arrange that to be playable and still make the same musical effect... if I live to be 150 I might get round to it one day....