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August Boeck Pleyel René Barbier Alphonse Mailly Paul Gilson 1886 1891 1893 1896 1899 1902 1907 1909 1912 1913 1920 1923 1926 1929 1931 1934 1960 1981
Jozef de Beenhouwer/ Ferdinand Terby ( 00:00 / 08:00 / 13:44 ) *(arranged for standard piano by Jozef de Beenhouwer)/ Please notice that from 03:24 - 04:58 are not in this score and there are other discrepancies throughout as well./ De Boeck’s Concerto for Hans piano +••.••(...)) was commissioned by Pierre Hans +••.••(...)), an amateur pianist with abnormally thick fingers, who was looking for a way to keep playing the piano. Being an engineer, he contacted the French firm of Pleyel, and together they designed and built a concert grand with two keyboards, with the upper keyboard tuned half a tone higher than the lower one. This created a range of possibilities, like making it easier to play chromatic passages. But it offered other, perhaps more important, advantages as well. For example, it allowed the pianist to repeat complete chords at a very high speed. This way the Hans piano made it possible to use special effects; and it had a highly distinctive sound. It is therefore no wonder that a number of concertos for this new instrument soon saw the light of day, including those by Pierre Hans himself, by Carl Smulders, René Barbier, Ernest d’Agrèves, and also by August De Boeck. The astronomical cost of the instrument strongly hampered the breakthrough of the Hans piano and the outbreak of World War II killed it off. It therefore made complete sense that a virtuoso organist like De Boeck was fascinated by the Hans piano and that he took on the challenge of composing a concerto for it. Jozef de Beenhouwer : "However, a modern performance of this concerto in this form would face other insurmountable problems as well, which is why the Belgian (Flemish) composer and conductor Frits Celis asked me in 1981 to arrange De Boeck’s concerto for a standard instrument. My arrangement required rewriting numerous passages in which both keyboards were used simultaneously in the same range; the quick repetition of complete chords, which occurred mostly in the Scherzo, had to be given up; and the short cadenza of the finale, which De Boeck had merely sketched, had to be rewritten thoroughly." August De Boeck studied at the Brussels Royal Conservatory of Music with Alphonse Mailly, and graduated in 1891 with the Diplôme de capacité for organ. In 1899, in Brussels, he became acquainted with Paul Gilson, with whom he studied orchestration and who encouraged him to compose. August De Boeck was mainly interested in vocal music, and it is no wonder that his fame rests mostly on his five operas, three of which are masterpieces: the fairytale opera Winternachtsdroom ‘Winternightsdream’ (1902), Reinaert de Vos ‘Reynard the Fox’ +••.••(...)) and La Route d’Eméraude ‘The Emerald Road’ +••.••(...)), also known as Francesca. He also composed a number of brilliant symphonic works, such as the Symphony in g minor (1896), a Violin Concerto (±1912-1934), the Concerto for Hans piano +••.••(...)), and a number of shorter pieces, like the Dahomey Rhapsody (1893), the Nocturne (1931) and the Fantasia on two Flemish Folk Songs (1923). Please support me with a little recognition/alms for this channel that you love (i love it too). Feel free to toss a message at my email : •••@••• ; if you need any score. I am here to share, not hiding anything (unless private, and it is most likely not in my channel). Please support - (http•••) There is no copyright infringement intended. If you wish your recording to be removed, it can be done, please just leave me an email, which can be found at the channel's about section.
Boeck Monk Corelli 1697 1735 1775
1) Adagio: 00:00 2) Allegro: 01:53 3) Aria: 05:28 4) Vivace: 07:41 Once again, we have a harpsichord work by an extremely obscure composer. We may assume that de Boeck was Flemish, and probably worked as an organist in Antwerp. Also, there is a good possibility that he was a Franciscan monk. But besides these speculations based on scant evidence, all we know is that around 1735, the Antwerp publisher Gerhard Fredrik Witvogel printed two sets of suites by “F.I. de Boeck”. Opus 1 contains only one suite; Opus 2, six of them. According to the title page, these are suites, yet the beginning of each one is marked “Sonata”. These sonatas are of the late baroque type, however, such as those written by Corelli. The sonata presented here, in g minor, is a surprisingly good composition, that as far as I can tell has never been recorded – until now! Did I hear that right? You still haven’t seen my books on music? Well, here they are... 1) How to Memorize Music – A Practical Approach for Non-Geniuses (http•••) 2) How to overcome Stage Fright − The ultimate Guide for performing Musicians (http•••) 3) Play it with Feeling! - Expressing Emotion in Musical Performance (http•••) All available at Amazon.com Please join my channel! P.S. You might want to join my Facebook Group: "The Digital Harpsichordist": (http•••)
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