Where would you rank these Mel Bonis pieces?

[mooshrimp]

I have never truly wanted to learn an entire collection before, but I recently discovered Mel Bonis' Femmes de Legende and I would love to learn at least 4-5 of them. For anyone who has played them how would you rank these in difficulty? What other pieces would you compare them to for difficulty? I am probably "late intermediate" (most of the things I've learned over the last year are a Henle 6/7) but would say "harp-like arpeggios" are a strength. Which seems to be the biggest component of most of these 

Melisande
Omphale
Ophelie
Phoebee
Desdemona

[thorn]

I love this set too. I've played Ophélie, Salomé, Phoebé and Desdémona. I'd say they're all between Henle 4 and 7, Desdémona is the easiest and Omphale is the hardest.

[mooshrimp]

I love this set too. I've played Ophélie, Salomé, Phoebé and Desdémona. I'd say they're all between Henle 4 and 7, Desdémona is the easiest and Omphale is the hardest.

Thank you! Where did you find the music for Ophelie? I can find most of them except that one.

I was thinking of starting with Omphale because I just finished a piece with the “3 hands technique,” if I can handle the first 2 pages are there any extremely challenging parts later? It strikes me as an easier than it sounds piece so far.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Thank you! Where did you find the music for Ophelie? I can find most of them except that one.

Based on a quick search, it was recently unearthed in 1998 and isn't in public domain, so if you want it legally you'll have to pay for it.

I ran into a similar issue with Godowsky's Study no. 50 a while back. Basically, while Godowsky was writing his studies on Chopin's Etudes, he suddenly had to flee his home in Austria-Hungary due to the outbreak of WW1. He left a few unfinished studies (30a, 44a, and 50) behind. 30a and 50 were recently rediscovered, but the sheet music isn't available for free, even though the rest of the studies entered public domain a long time ago.

TL;DR Copyright law can be annoying at times, and this is one of those times.

[kosulin]

Mel Bonis is in public domain and is available for free to everybody thanks to her family and to Association Mel Bonis:
https://www.bruzanemediabase.com/en/mediabase/news/mel-bonis-scores-now-available-online

[mooshrimp]

Based on a quick search, it was recently unearthed in 1998 and isn't in public domain, so if you want it legally you'll have to pay for it.

I ran into a similar issue with Godowsky's Study no. 50 a while back. Basically, while Godowsky was writing his studies on Chopin's Etudes, he suddenly had to flee his home in Austria-Hungary due to the outbreak of WW1. He left a few unfinished studies (30a, 44a, and 50) behind. 30a and 50 were recently rediscovered, but the sheet music isn't available for free, even though the rest of the studies entered public domain a long time ago.

TL;DR Copyright law can be annoying at times, and this is one of those times.

Ahhh, makes sense. I was struggling to even find a copy to buy that wasn't $50 to ship from Europe, but my university library has a copy. Hooray for libraries!

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Mel Bonis is in public domain and is available for free to everybody thanks to her family and to Association Mel Bonis:
https://www.bruzanemediabase.com/en/mediabase/news/mel-bonis-scores-now-available-online

Godowsky's Studies on the ChopEts are also in public domain, but you still have to pay for the sheet music of Study no. 50:
https://muse-press.com/en/product/mp00303/?srsltid=AfmBOoo3E6fvgHDf3gCrGOj7e_Ye-1H4uvdK_nufNdA8o127gYrehfNh