Favorite composer of transcriptions, arrangements, and/or paraphrases

[stravinskylover]

I like Cziffra.

[j_menz]

Czerny, Thalberg, Tausig, Godowsky, Kempff, Gould, Grainger, Hough, Makashoff, Reger.......

[stravinskylover]

Okay, I added them. But who is your all-time favorite?

[j_menz]

I don't have a favourite. It depends on the piece.

Also, you can add JS Bach, Moszkowski and Brassin.

[stravinskylover]

I don't have a favourite. It depends on the piece.

Also, you can add JS Bach, Moszkowski and Brassin.

Done!

[ale_ius]

Bartok, Pletnev, Wild....

[visitor]

Rosenblatt, Solis, Whitney...

[ale_ius]

Hamauzu, Kameoka

[j_menz]

Feinberg, Friedmann, Siloti, Taneyev.....

[ale_ius]

Kabalevsky, Guion

[visitor]

Gershwin

[ale_ius]

Tatum

[visitor]

Savino

[stravinskylover]

Okay, I believe I added all those names! Now does anyone care to vote, or do I have to spend the rest of my life updating the poll?

[ale_ius]

I voted but it is by proxy as I cannot leave those I listed hanging.  I also jut as easily live many of the name equally.  It rally deeds on the style or type of music . I have favorites in each style or category.

  Alee Marie 

[j_menz]

or do I have to spend the rest of my life updating the poll?

You need a hobby. 

Gavrilin, Helps, Hinton, Madsen, Raff, Reynolds, Shchedrin, Sorabji, Warren .....

[visitor]

You need a hobby. 

Gavrilin, Helps, Hinton, Madsen, Raff, Reynolds, Shchedrin, Sorabji, Warren .....

Lol sorta asked for it w trying to list them all to begin huh haha

Ooooh Warren!! Good one!!!!! 

I will add:  Walter

[j_menz]

Stradal, Schalk, Rohm, Willner, Hynais, Ganz, Herz, Jirko, Ogden, Rubinstein, Templeton, Petri, Cortot, Barth, Balikirev, Chasin, Moore, Guion, Lewenthal, Stevenson, Haubiel, Wesendonck, Klindworth, Paderewski, D'Albert, Levant, John Bach, Mukerji, Lowry, Steiner, Rabinowitsch, Sennett, Cramer ......

[stravinskylover]

Stradal, Schalk, Rohm, Willner, Hynais, Ganz, Herz, Jirko, Ogden, Rubinstein, Templeton, Petri, Cortot, Barth, Balikirev, Chasin, Moore, Guion, Lewenthal, Stevenson, Haubiel, Wesendonck, Klindworth, Paderewski, D'Albert, Levant, John Bach, Mukerji, Lowry, Steiner, Rabinowitsch, Sennett, Cramer ......

Guion was already on the list.  

[stravinskylover]

*Pant pant pant* Done!

You need a hobby. 

You're actually right about that...

Lol sorta asked for it w trying to list them all to begin huh haha

You're also right! Why did I try?

[j_menz]

Guion was already on the list.  

Hmm OK - should have noticed.

BTW, You've misspelt Shchedrin. It's Щедри́н, so Shch.

[stravinskylover]

BTW, You've misspelt Shchedrin. It's Щедри́н, so Shch.

Oh really? Sorry about that!

Fixed!

[j_menz]

*Pant pant pant* Done!

Here, you deserve it.

[stravinskylover]

Here, you deserve it.

Thank you! I get that for spending 5 minutes adding composers I don't know to a poll?

[j_menz]

Thank you! I get that for spending 5 minutes adding composers I don't know to a poll?

It's 2014. Everyone gets a prize nowadays.

What ones don't you know?

[stravinskylover]

It's 2014. Everyone gets a prize nowadays.

What ones don't you know?

Did you get a prize too?

Stradal, Schalk, Rohm, Willner, Hynais, Ganz, Herz, Jirko, Ogden, Templeton, Petri, Barth, Chasin, Moore, Guion, Lewenthal, Stevenson, Haubiel, Wesendonck, Klindworth, D'Albert, John Bach, Mukerji, Lowry, Steiner, Rabinowitsch, Sennett, Madsen, Helps, and Tatum.

[j_menz]

August Stradal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Stradal

Josef Schalk - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schalk

Wilhelm Rohm - Liottle known German composer, no details. I have a nice transcription of Bruckner's Fm String Quartet he did in 1946.

Arthur Willner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Willner

Cyril Hynais - Friend of Bruckner, wrote piano transcriptions of some of his symphonic works.

Rudolph Ganz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Ganz

Henri Herz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Herz

Ivan Jirko - Prolific and (in his homeland) highly regarded Czech composer not well known outside Czech Republic 1926-78

John Ogden - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ogdon

Alec Templeton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Templeton

Egon Petri - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Petri

Hans Barth - https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Barth-Hans.htm

Abram Chasins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Chasins

Dudley Moore - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Moore (His Beethoven, Britten and Weil satires are priceless, and extremely well informed)

David Guion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wendel_Guion

Raymond Lewenthal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Lewenthal

Ronald Stevenson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Stevenson

Charles Haubiel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Haubiel

Mathilde Wesendonck - Oops, scratch her. She was Wagner's mistress, to whom he dedicated some songs which were transcribed by August Stradal - misread my own cataloguing.

Karl Klindworth - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Klindworth

Eugene D'Albert - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_D%27Albert

John Bach - no details but did a large number of concert transcription for popular sale in the 1950s and 50s.

Nawa Mukerji - https://www.youtube.com/user/Mukerji1/featured

Art Lowry, Columbia Recording artist, jazz, 1950s.

Max Steiner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Steiner

Max Rabinowitsch - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0704922/

Chris Sennett - no details, but I have a lovely arrangement of Faure's Pavane for a Dead Princeess by him.

Trygve Madsen - https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2002100810502081320210

Robert Helps - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Helps

Art Tatum. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Tatum

[stravinskylover]

August Stradal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Stradal

Josef Schalk - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schalk

Wilhelm Rohm - Liottle known German composer, no details. I have a nice transcription of Bruckner's Fm String Quartet he did in 1946.

Arthur Willner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Willner

Cyril Hynais - Friend of Bruckner, wrote piano transcriptions of some of his symphonic works.

Rudolph Ganz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Ganz

Henri Herz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Herz

Ivan Jirko - Prolific and (in his homeland) highly regarded Czech composer not well known outside Czech Republic 1926-78

John Ogden - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ogdon

Alec Templeton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Templeton

Egon Petri - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Petri

Hans Barth - https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Barth-Hans.htm

Abram Chasins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Chasins

Dudley Moore - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Moore (His Beethoven, Britten and Weil satires are priceless, and extremely well informed)

David Guion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wendel_Guion

Raymond Lewenthal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Lewenthal

Ronald Stevenson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Stevenson

Charles Haubiel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Haubiel

Mathilde Wesendonck - Oops, scratch her. She was Wagner's mistress, to whom he dedicated some songs which were transcribed by August Stradal - misread my own cataloguing.

Karl Klindworth - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Klindworth

Eugene D'Albert - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_D%27Albert

John Bach - no details but did a large number of concert transcription for popular sale in the 1950s and 50s.

Nawa Mukerji - https://www.youtube.com/user/Mukerji1/featured

Art Lowry, Columbia Recording artist, jazz, 1950s.

Max Steiner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Steiner

Max Rabinowitsch - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0704922/

Chris Sennett - no details, but I have a lovely arrangement of Faure's Pavane for a Dead Princeess by him.

Trygve Madsen - https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2002100810502081320210

Robert Helps - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Helps

Art Tatum. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Tatum

Thanks, I'll read those within next month!

[thalbergmad]

Nobody has mentioned the greatest of all.

PABST

Thal

[visitor]

Nobody has mentioned the greatest of all.

PABST

Thal

Yep.  Pauly was a bad a$$.

Levine
 Geehl
Kapustin
Robert Goldbeck
Joseffy
Jonas

[stravinskylover]

Done, I added those names, as well as Foeckeler. Why am I adding names that nobody is voting for though?

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Nobody has mentioned the greatest of all.

PABST

Yes - he did some really excellent work.

I'm not voting because it means choosing between a multitude of favourites. Liszt's are probably overall the best, but I have soft spots for so many other transcribers.

[kakeithewolf]

Liszt. To me, he dominated the field of transcription in the time he was about.

[khantallis123]

I discriminate against Czerny's Fantasy on Chinese "Airs". I have no proof that the melodies- "airs"- were composed by Czerny or some French guy, but has anyone thought about the fantasy's themes may have been composed just to deceive curious things?

[coda_colossale]

How on earth you came up with so many names    I mean, what the heck is a Haubiel?

[j_menz]

How on earth you came up with so many names   

I looked on my music shelves. 

I mean, what the heck is a Haubiel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Haubiel

He did a perfectly charming set of Variations on themes of Stephen Forster.

[visitor]

...o  I mean, what the heck is a Haubiel?

I agree w j.  The work he did in that foster theme is a colossal masterpiece.  I also have his American rhapsody which is a gem.  Incredible sound.  Charles sounds like Brahms and Debussy with distinct American flair.  Warrants more study and listening.  I hit a recording I his piano music up regularly.

[ahinton]

Oh really? Sorry about that!

Fixed!

You've also mis-spelt Ogdon!

Best,

Alistair

[kakeithewolf]

I just looked at the list, and I'm surprised Widor isn't up there.

[mjames]

Siloti hype train

[j_menz]

Siloti hype train

OK, you've completely lost me on that one. 

[khantallis123]

Beyer
Spindler
Moscheles
J. field
Kalkbrenner
But the best is already Liszted

[khantallis123]

Clementi is bad but add him

[khantallis123]

I think you should add Chopin and Gottschalk.

[khantallis123]

Add Isidor Phillip, also add Bizet
 

[j_menz]

also add Bizet

Wasn't Bizet rather more transcribed against than transcribing?

[khantallis123]

Well he arranged Saint Saens piano concerto

[j_menz]

I did not know that!

Superb! (so far  still plugged in EDIT: good all the way through)

[khantallis123]

HMMM... Saint-saens, Stephen Hough, Anton Rubinstein

[khantallis123]

Oops, he's already there, how about RACHMANINOFF?