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Offline 8_octaves

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Searching for 2 Gottschalk-scores
on: March 24, 2015, 08:18:17 AM
Hi all,

I'm searching for 2 Gottschalk-works, maybe one of you has got one or both of them as pdf? Both of them are in the New York Public Library, but I dislike very much to ask libraries or their curators.

The first is this one:

Author    Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, 1829-1869.
Uniform Title    Souvenirs d'Andalousie; arr.
Title    Souvenirs d'Andalousie: caprice de concert sur la cana, le fandango et le jaleo de jerez, op. 22/composé pour piano par L. M. Gottschalk.
Imprint    Mayence: B. Schott's Söhne, [188-?]
Description    17 p.; 35 cm.
Note    For piano, 4 hands; originally for piano solo.
Subject    Piano music (4 hands), Arranged.
Added Author    American Music Collection.
Publisher No.    Pl. no. 24711 B. Schott's Söhne
Call No.    JNG 81-18
Research Call Number    JNG 81-18

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The second is this one: (There are 2 versions: One Ms, and a microform of it).

Author    Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, 1829-1869.
Title    Ejercicios, pasages, arpejios [Microform] : sa., en el orden moderno, para lograr una gran articulacion como igualmente una gran independencia en los dedos / por L. M. Gottschalk y N. R. Espadero.
Imprint    [186-?]
Description    [78] l. 16 x 22 cm.
Note    Ms. in ink, in hand of Espadero; with additional markings in pencil.
Access    Requires permission of the curator; please use *ZB-380 instead.
Note    Leaves [26-43, 47-58, 69-78] are blank.
   Additional leaf (34 x 28 cm., folded twice) of exercises, in ink, laid in.
   Unpublished. Possibly his Exercises brillante, as mentioned by R. Offergeld in his Centennial catalogue, item 89.
Reproduction    Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : The New York Public Library, 1972. 1 reel.
Subject    Music -- Manuscripts.
   Piano music -- Teaching pieces.
Added Author    Ruiz Espadero, Nicolás, 1832-1890.
Research Call Number    *ZB-380 [Microfilm]
   JOB 72-14 (Locked case)

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Both of them aren't on IMSLP and not on https://www.gottschalk.fr/index.php/en/gottschalk-s-eng/partitions-s-eng . (Pls note it's not the "exercises journaliers").

Background for those who might be interested: As far as my research went, the NYPL holds very interesting documents about Gottschalk, for example the Starr-papers, and a collection formerly known as the "Rhome-Collection", until it was assimilated / integrated in the NYPL-Gottschalk-"area". This Rhome-Collection under difficulties (Offergeld at first wasn't allowed to get access to the collection when it was still property of Otto Rhome, a descendant-relative of Gottschalk) made its way into the NYPL, as I said, and perhaps the "exercises, passages, and arpeggios", a kind of "piano-school", collaborative by Moreau and his friend Espadero, were / are part of it?

(Addition: Ah, I remember: maybe not. It ( the "ejercicios..." ) seems to belong to another collection of 23 items the NYPL once bought, too, as I re-read in the introduction of the "Little book of L.M. Gottschalk: Seven previously unpublished piano pieces", which I have in printed form, copy of the complete facsimile.
  
But the origins and provenance of the mentioned 23-items-collection, of which the "ejercicios.." were part, both stay a little obscure, the editors of the "Little Book" ( Jackson, Ratcliff, preface: G. Chase) only knew that Espadero and one of his - again (!!) - unknown relatives, and a man named "Rene Guin y Toussaint", who is "obscure", too, were involved. On the other hand, the case of the "Rhome-Collection" I mentioned earlier was discussed by Starr in "Bamboula!", which I have. But it isn't too important to which collection it finally belongs or had belonged. I only wanted to make the difficult circumstances perhaps a bit clearer.

It's sometimes very difficult to track or understand the diffuse and obscure ways of Gottschalk - stuff, I think! But exciting, fascinating, compelling, too, I think!  :) :)

End of addition.

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However:

Has anybody perhaps come across one of the 2 above mentioned works? A pdf would be marvellous! OR: Does anybody know who exactly was the arranger of the 4hd andalusie?

But I won't ask the library. If this thread is without success, I will let the two works rest in peace, and not further try to touch them.

Very cordially, 8_octaves!







"Never be afraid to play before an artist.
The artist listens for that which is well done,
the person who knows nothing listens for the faults." (T. Carreño, quoting her 2nd teacher, Gottschalk.)

Offline thalbergmad

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Re: Searching for 2 Gottschalk-scores
Reply #1 on: March 24, 2015, 05:34:57 PM
I will have a look at my files later my friend, but would say i have ordered many scores from the NYPL in the past and have found them fast and helpful.

Speak later.

Thal
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Offline 8_octaves

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Re: Searching for 2 Gottschalk-scores
Reply #2 on: March 24, 2015, 06:46:35 PM
I will have a look at my files later my friend, but would say i have ordered many scores from the NYPL in the past and have found them fast and helpful.

Speak later.

Thal

Merci very much, Monsieur Thalberg, :) for having a look! I'll stay alert.. 

cordially, 8_oct!
"Never be afraid to play before an artist.
The artist listens for that which is well done,
the person who knows nothing listens for the faults." (T. Carreño, quoting her 2nd teacher, Gottschalk.)
 

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