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Thema met variaties
Uploaded by: pahasoft
Composer: andriessen, hendrik Organ: 1904 Wilhelm Sauer, Dortmund, Germany Software: Hauptwerk IV Views: 759
Funky Pipes
Uploaded by: lupo9696
Composer: * My Own Composition Organ: Hereford Cathedral Willis Organ Software: Hauptwerk IV Views: 73
Elegy
Uploaded by: Agnus_Dei
Composer: Vincent, Charles Organ: Hereford Cathedral Willis Organ Software: Hauptwerk IV Views: 109
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Agnus_Dei (10/10/17)
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Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
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Lavender Audio
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Sample Set:
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Hereford Cathedral Willis Organ
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Software: | Hauptwerk IV |
Genre: | Romantic |
Description: | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was an English composer and conductor who was mixed-race, part Sierra Leone Creole. He achieved such success that he was referred to by white New York musicians as the "African Mahler" at the time when he toured the United States. He was born in 1875 in Holborn, London, to Alice Hare Martin (1856–1953), an English woman, and Dr. Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor, a Creole from Sierra Leone, of mixed European and African descent. His mother named her son Samuel Coleridge Taylor after the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
By 1896, Coleridge-Taylor was already earning a reputation as a composer. He was later helped by Edward Elgar, who recommended him to the Three Choirs Festival. His "Ballade in A minor" was premiered there. His early work was also guided by the influential music editor and critic August Jaeger of music publisher Novello; he told Elgar that Taylor was "a genius". Stanford also was as champion of his music.
Coleridge-Taylor was 37 when he died of pneumonia, but his death is often attributed to the stress of his financial situation.
"Journey to the Great City" is the fifth of a group of five pieces for piano, composed in 1907. The transcriptions makes this piece into a grand and exotic processional, which immediately reminded me of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." The piano solo version sounds more like a horseback ride, which, I suppose, IS what it's supposed to sound like!
More notes are given in the first comment.
The grandiose transcription was done by Arthur Eaglefield Hull (10 March 1876 – 4 November 1928), English music critic, writer, composer and organist. he graduated with a Doctorate of Music from Oxford University. He lived in Huddersfield in Yorkshire. He was the general editor for the reference work, "A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians".
The score is attached below (page 13 (11), as well as several photos of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Arthur Eaglefield Hull. |
Performance: | Live |
Recorded in: | Stereo |
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