Piano works (Bruckner)

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Anton Bruckner composed 25 small piano works, the earliest in 1850, the last in 1868. Most of the works were composed for his piano pupils during his stay in St. Florian (1845-1855) and in Linz (1855-1868).[1]

Works for piano for two hands

Seven works are edited in Band XII/2 of the Bruckner's Gesamtausgabe:[2]

  • Four Lancier-Quadrille, WAB 120, in C major, compiled in c. 1850 from melodies from Albert Lortzing's Der Wildschütz and Zar und Zimmermann, and Gaetano Donizetti's La fille du régiment,[3] as exercise for his piano pupil Aloisia Bogner:[4] Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/2, No. 1[5][6]
  • Steiermärker (From Steiermark), WAB 122, a 32-bar long piece in G major, composed also in c. 1850 for Aloisia Bogner:[4] Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/2, No. 2[5] It is a kind of stylised Ländler in A-B-C-A form.[6]
  • Klavierstück, WAB 119, a 18-bar long "piece for piano" in E-flat major, composed in c. 1856 for teaching purpose: Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/2, No. 3[5][7][8]
  • Sonatensatz, WAB deest, a 194-bar long first "movement of a sonata" in G minor, found on pp. 157–164 of the Kitzler-Studienbuch: Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/2, No. 7 (Addendum). The partially missing score for the left hand has been completed by Walburga Litschauer.[9][10]
  • Stille Betrachtung an einem Herbstabend (Quiet meditation on an autumn evening), WAB 123, a 58-bar long piece in F-sharp minor. A paraphrase of Mendelssohn's Lied ohne Worte opus 30, No. 6, which Bruckner composed on 10 October 1863 for Emma Thanner: Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/2, No. 4[11][7]
  • Fantasie, WAB 118, a 119-bar long, two-part "fantasia" in G major composed on 10 September 1868 for Alexandrine Soika: Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/2, No. 5[9][7]
  • Erinnerung (Remembrance), WAB 117, a 52-bar long piece in A-flat major composed in c. 1868: Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/2, No. 6[9][12]

Piano works composed during Kitzler's tuition

Sixteen other piano works, which composed in 1862 during Kitzler's tuition,[13] are found in the Kitzler-Studienbuch:[14]

Works for piano for four hands

  • Drei kleine Stücke, WAB 124, three easy pieces (G major, G major and F major), composed in 1853, 1854 and 1855 for the children of Josef Marböck, to be played on their father's birthday: Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/3, No. 1[9]
  • Six Quadrille, WAB 121, six pieces (Pantalon, Été, Poule, Trénis, Pastourelle and Finale) in D major composed in c. 1854 for Marie Ruckensteiner: Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/3, No. 2[16]

Selected discography

There are about 10 recordings of Erinnerung, WAB 117. The other piano compositions are much less recorded.

Two recordings are dedicated to Bruckner's piano works:

  • Wolfgang Brunner and Michael Schopper, Anton Bruckner – Piano works – CD: CPO 999 256-2, 1996
  • Fumiko Shiraga, Anton Bruckner – Piano works – CD: Bis-CD-1297, 2001 (only the works for two hands)

Except the Sonatensatz, WAB deest, there is as yet no recording of the pieces composed during Kitzler's tuition.

References

  1. ↑ C. van Zwol, pp. 676-678
  2. ↑ Frühe Orchesterwerke und Instrumentalstücke
  3. ↑ U. Harten, p. 246
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The 16-year old Aloisia Bogner, alias Louise or Luise Bogner, was the older daughter of Michaël Bogner, by whom Bruckner had his living accommodation. Bruckner composed for her also the lieder Der Mondabend and Frühlingslied.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 C. van Zwol, p. 676
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 C. Howie, Chapter II, p. 30
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 C. Howie, Chapter III, p. 118
  8. ↑ U. Harten, p. 234
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 C. van Zwol, p. 677
  10. ↑ C. Howie, Chapter III, p. 119
  11. ↑ C. Van Zwol, pp. 676-677
  12. ↑ C. Howie, Chapter III: p. 120
  13. ↑ C. van Zwol, p. 678
  14. ↑ Kitzler Study Book - Facsimile, ISBN 978-3-900270-99-5
  15. ↑ U. Harten, p. 150
  16. ↑ C. Van Zwol, pp. 677-678

Sources

  • August Göllerich, Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild, c. 1922 – posthumous edited by Max Auer by G. Bosse, Regensburg, 1932
  • Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XII/2: Works for solo piano (1850–1869), Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Walburga Litschauer (Editor), Vienna, 1989
  • Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XII/3: Piano works for four hands (1853–1855), Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Walburga Litschauer (Editor), Vienna, 1989
  • Anton Bruckner - Sämtliche Werke, Band XXV: Das Kitzler Studienbuch (1861-1863), facsimile, Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Paul Hawkshaw and Erich Wolfgang Partsch (Editors), Vienna, 2015
  • Uwe Harten, Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg, 1996. ISBN 3-7017-1030-9.
  • Cornelis van Zwol, Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken, uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012. ISBN 978-90-6868-590-9
  • Crawford Howie, Anton Bruckner - A documentary biography, online revised edition

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