20-07-2012, 16:52
Hey John!
Another Lisztophile! Yay! I love (and play) Liebestraum and Consolation 3, I've played Consolation 1 which is only one page!!! A lot of others I'm still in the process: Rhapsody 2, Bravura Waltz, Csardas Obstine, but I found one that sounds perfect for you! Really! A lovely song, in English:
"A wondrous rapture, must it be, when 2 hearts are ..." I'll have to go find the score, I have it somewhere here. It's 2 pages, beautiful and slow, and I imagine Liszt wrote the lyrics too!!!
I have arranged his opus 1, Don Sanche, here: http://teovincent4.com it is now a trio score but you can play the piano parts.
To answer your question, "Who are some great composers," I have found a few off of the beaten path: Clara Schumann, St. George de Chevalier, and half classical people like Sebastien Yradier or Iradier who wrote Paloma, beautiful, and El Arreglito the original melody of Carmen's Habanera! Also Ernesto Lecuona's Andalucia - that is in the site I mentioned above. I put it back in a waltz, though most people play it in 4/4, with the added lyrics: "The breeze and I, are saying goodbye, to love we used to share..." but the original has a Cuban Waltz and Andalucian feel.
Teo
Another Lisztophile! Yay! I love (and play) Liebestraum and Consolation 3, I've played Consolation 1 which is only one page!!! A lot of others I'm still in the process: Rhapsody 2, Bravura Waltz, Csardas Obstine, but I found one that sounds perfect for you! Really! A lovely song, in English:
"A wondrous rapture, must it be, when 2 hearts are ..." I'll have to go find the score, I have it somewhere here. It's 2 pages, beautiful and slow, and I imagine Liszt wrote the lyrics too!!!
I have arranged his opus 1, Don Sanche, here: http://teovincent4.com it is now a trio score but you can play the piano parts.
To answer your question, "Who are some great composers," I have found a few off of the beaten path: Clara Schumann, St. George de Chevalier, and half classical people like Sebastien Yradier or Iradier who wrote Paloma, beautiful, and El Arreglito the original melody of Carmen's Habanera! Also Ernesto Lecuona's Andalucia - that is in the site I mentioned above. I put it back in a waltz, though most people play it in 4/4, with the added lyrics: "The breeze and I, are saying goodbye, to love we used to share..." but the original has a Cuban Waltz and Andalucian feel.
Teo