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Apple, 1996-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 84x4x124.
Canonic Variations, Interlude, and Fugue - on a Theme by Sergei Rachmaninov [PIANO SOLO SCORE] by Sherwood, Gordon - 1974
by Sherwood, Gordon
Canonic Variations, Interlude, and Fugue - on a Theme by Sergei Rachmaninov [PIANO SOLO SCORE]
by Sherwood, Gordon
- Used
- Fine
Unpublished, 1974. Plastic Comb with Card Covers. Fine. 8.5" x 11.75. A powerful large-scale piano work based on the Rachmaninov C#-minor Prelude by this unjustifiably/inexplicably-forgotten American composer. Gordon Sherwood (August 25, 1929 - May 2, 2013) was an American classical composer. Known in Germany as the "Beggar-Composer", his works exhibit various early 20th-century European and American classical music styles, as well as showing influences from blues, Arabic, Indian and Asian music. The New York Philharmonic under Dmitri Mitropoulos gave his career a promising start as a prize-winning young composer at Carnegie Hall in 1957. Aaron Copland said he was "his most gifted student". He studied with famous teachers and won more awards and stipends in academia, but drifted into virtual anonymity until the mid-1990s. He began begging on the streets of Paris around 1980. A 1994 Norddeutscher Rundfunk/Arte feature-length television documentary "Der Bettler von Paris" exposed his life and work to German audiences, who were the first to hear his symphony and other works were premiered and recorded at the beginning of the 21st century. 39 pages. CONDITION: A bright, uncreased Fine copy with negligible shelf-wear - the full score unmarked but for the previous owner's name on the cover - that of composer Noel Farrand, a fellow Copland student. This exceeding scarce composition is now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag with archival backing board.
- Bookseller bookarrest (US)
- Format/Binding Plastic Comb with Card Covers
- Book Condition Used - Fine
- Quantity Available 1
- Publisher Unpublished
- Date Published 1974
- Keywords MODERN AMERICAN PIANO MUSIC CANONS CANONIC MUSIC MODERN AMERICAN COMPOSERS AARON COPLAND COPLAND STUDENTS RENEGADE ECCENTRIC COMPOSERS SERGEI RACHMANINOV EXPATRIATE AMERICAN ARTISTS
- Size 8.5" x 11.75