Piano works (Bruckner)
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 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, as exercise for his piano pupil Aloisia Bogner: Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/2, No. 1[3][4]
- Steiermärker (From Steiermark), WAB 122, a 32-bar long piece in G major, composed too in c. 1850 for Aloisia Bogner: Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/2, No. 2[3] It is a kind of stylised Ländler in A-B-C-A form.[4]
- 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[3][5][6]
- 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. The partially missing score for the left hand has been completed by Walburga Litschauer.[7][8]
- Stille Betrachtung an einem Herbstabend (Quiet meditation on a 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 Oktober 1863 for Emma Thanner: Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/2, No. 4[9][5]
- 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[7][5]
- Erinnerung (Remembrance), WAB 117, a 52-bar long piece in A-flat major composed in c. 1868: Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/2, No. 6[7][10]
Not yet issued piano works
Sixteen other piano works composed in 1862 during Kitzler's tuition, which were found in the Kitzler-Studienbuch, are not yet issued:[11]
- Walzer in E-flat major
- Walzer in C major
- Polka in C major
- Mazurca in A minor
- Menuett in C major
- Menuett and Trio in G major
- Marsch in D minor
- Andante für Klavier in E-flat major
- Andante für Klavier D minor
- Etüde in G major
- Chromatische Etüde in F major
- Variationen über ein Thema in G major
- Four Fantasien in D minor, C minor, C minor and D minor.[12]
Works for piano for four hands
- Drei kleine Stücke, WAB 124, three easy pieces (G major, G major and F major), composed in 1853-1855 for the children of Josef Marböck: Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/3, No. 1[7]
- 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[13]
Abendklänge
Abenklänge (Evening harmonies), WAB 110, is a 36-bar long piece for violin and piano in E minor, which Bruckner composed on 7 June 1866. Bruckner dedicated it to Hugo von Grienberger. Of the 36 bars only 14 are played by the violin.[14][15]
The original manuscript is stored in the archive of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. A facsimile of it was first published in Band I, pp. 104-105 of the of the Göllerich/Auer biography.[16][17] The work is issued in Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/7.[14]
Selected discography
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 (only the works for two hands)
Abendklänge
- Josef Sabaini (violin), Thomas Kerbl (piano), Anton Bruckner Chöre/Klaviermusik – CD: LIVA 034, 2009 (Abendklänge)
References
- ↑ C. van Zwol, pp. 676-678
- ↑ Frühe Orchesterwerke und Instrumentalstücke
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 C. van Zwol, p. 676
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 C. Howie, Chapter II, p. 30
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 C. Howie, Chapter III, p. 118
- ↑ U. Harten, p. 234
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 C. van Zwol, p. 677
- ↑ C. Howie, Chapter III, p. 119
- ↑ C. Van Zwol, pp. 676-677
- ↑ C. Howie, Chapter III: p. 120
- ↑ C. van Zwol, p. 678
- ↑ U. Harten, p. 150
- ↑ C. Van Zwol, pp. 677-678
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 C. Van Zwol, p. 681
- ↑ C. Howie, Chapter III: p. 122
- ↑ C. Van Zwol, p. 681
- ↑ U. Harten, p. 42
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 XII/7: Abendklänge for violin and piano, Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Walburga Litschauer (Editor), Vienna, 1995
- 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
External links
- Compositions by Anton Bruckner: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- Scores of piano works on John Berky's website
- Werke für Klavier Critical discography by Hans Roelofs (German)
- Abendklänge e-Moll, WAB 110 Critical discography by Hans Roelofs (German)
- Live performances of Erinnerung and the Fantasie by Gottfried Hemetsberger can be heard on YouTube: Erinnerung and Fantasie in G major
- A live performance of Stille Betrachtung an einem Herbstabend by "M1kek0" (2010) can be heard on YouTube: Stille Betrachtung an einem Herbstabend
- A live performance of the Drei kleine Stücke, WAB 124, by Raúl de la Mora & Héctor Ocampo (2011) can be heard on YouTube: Drei Weihnachtsstücke
- A performance of Abendklänge by Wolfgang Göllner (violin) & Albert Sassmann (piano) can be heard on YouTube: Abendklänge.