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The repertoire of Moriz Rosenthal

Moriz Rosenthal (18 December 1862, Lemberg, now L'viv, Ukraine – 3 September 1946, New York City). Polish pianist and composer. Franz Liszt, whom he met, played a major role in his development.
Composer
Title
Isaac Albéniz
· Cantos de España: Orientale
· Ibéria: Triana
Daniel Auber/
Franz Liszt
· Tarantella from La muette de Portici
Carl P. E. Bach
· Pièces de Caractère: La Complaisante and Les Langueurs tendres
Johann Sebastian Bach
· Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue
· French Suite No. 5 in G major
· Gavotte[1]
· Passepied en rondeau[1]
· Sarabande[1]
· Well-Tempered Clavier
         Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major, Book 1
         Prelude and Fugue in D minor, Book ?
Johann Sebastian Bach/
Johannes Brahms
· Chaconne from the Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
Johann Sebastian Bach/
Franz Liszt
· Organ Prelude and Fugue in A minor
Mily A. Balakirev
[works not specified]
Ludwig Van Beethoven
· Three Bagatelles[2]
· Ecossaises
· Piano Concerto[1]
· Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73
· Piano Sonatas:
         No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, 'Pathétique'
         No. 18 in E-flat major, Op. 31, No. 3
         No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49, No. 1
         No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57
         No. 24 in F-sharp major, Op. 78
         No. 26 in E-flat major, Op. 81a, 'Les Adieux'
         No. 28 in A major, Op. 101
         No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106
         No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
         No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110
         No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
· Piano Trios:
         in C minor, Op. 1, No. 3[3]
         in B-flat major, Op. 97[3]
· Thirty-two Variations in C minor
Sergei Bortkiewicz
· Etude Op. 15, No. 8
Johannes Brahms
· Capriccio Op. 76, No. 2
· Intermezzi:
         Op. 76, No. 3
         Op. 76, No. 4
         Op. 118, No. 6
         Op. 119, No. 3
· Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83
· Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34[3]
· Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 5
· Rhapsody Op. 119, No. 4
· Variations on a Hungarian Song, Op. 21, No. 2
· Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 35
Frédéric Chopin
· Allegro de Concert in A, Op. 46
· Ballades:
         No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23;
         No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47
         No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
· Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op. 60
· Berceuse in D-flat major, Op. 57
· Etudes:
         in C major, Op. 10, No. 1
         in A minor, Op. 10, No. 2
         in E major, Op. 10, No. 3
         in G-flat major, Op. 10, No. 5
         in F major, Op. 10, No. 8
         in A-flat major, Op. 25, No. 1
         in F minor, Op. 25, No. 2
         in F major, Op. 25, No. 3
         in G-sharp minor, Op. 25, No. 6
         in G-flat major, Op. 25, No. 9
         in  A minor, Op. 25, No. 11
         in C minor, Op. 25, No. 12
· Fantasie in F minor, Op. 49
· Impromptus:
         No. 1 in A-flat major, Op. 29
         No. 2 in F-sharp major, Op. 36
         No. 4 in C-sharp minor, Op. 66, Fantasie-Impromptu
· Mazurkas:
         in A-flat major, Op. 24, No. 3
         in B-flat minor, Op. 24, No. 4
         in G-sharp minor, Op. 33, No. 1
         in D major, Op. 33, No. 2
         in C major, Op. 33, No. 3
         in B minor, Op. 33, No. 4
         in C-sharp minor, Op. 41, No. 1
         in E minor, Op. 41, No. 2
         in B major, Op. 41, No. 3
         in G major, Op. 50, No. 1
         in A-flat major, Op. 50, No. 2
         in C-sharp minor, Op. 50, No. 3
         in B major, Op. 56, No. 1
         in C major, Op. 56, No. 2
         in B major, Op. 63, No. 1
         in C-sharp minor, Op. 63, No. 3
         in G major, Op. 67, No. 1
         in G minor, Op. 67, No. 2
         in A minor, Op. 67, No. 4
         Op. posthumous
· Nocturnes:
         in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2
         in F-sharp major, Op. 15, No. 2
         in D-flat major, Op. 27, No. 2
         G major, Op. 37, No. 2
         in F minor, Op. 55, No. 1
         in E-flat major, Op. 55, No. 2
         in E major, Op. 62, No. 2
· Piano Concertos
         No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
         No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
· Piano Sonatas
         No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35
         No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
· Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53
· Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat major, Op. 61
· Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 45
· Preludes Op. 28[4]:
        No. 3 in G major
        No. 4 in E minor
        No. 6 in B minor
        No. 7 in A major
        No. 8 in F-sharp minor
        No. 11 in B major
        No. 13 in F-sharp major
        No. 15 in D-flat major
        No. 19 in E-flat major
        No. 20 in C minor
        No. 21 in B-flat major
        No. 23 in F major
· Scherzi
        No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20
        No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31
        No. 3 in C-sharp minor, Op. 39
· Tarentelle in A-flat major, Op. 43
· Trois Nouvelles Etudes
· Waltzes
        in A minor, Op. 34, No. 2
        in F major, Op. 34, No. 3
        in A-flat major, Op. 42
        in D-flat major, Op. 64, No. 1
        in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2
        in F minor, Op. 70, No. 2;
        in E minor, Op. posthumous
Frédéric Chopin/
Johannes Brahms
· Etude Op. 25, No. 2
   
Frédéric Chopin/
Franz Liszt
· Chants polonais
        No. 1[5]
        No. 5
Frédéric Chopin/
Moriz Rosenthal
· Etude Op. 25, No. 2
· Studie über den Walzer, Op. 64, No. 1
Muzio Clementi
· Toccata
François Couperin
· La tendre Nanette
César A. Cui
· Feuillet d’album
Louis-Claude Daquin
· Le Coucou
Karl Davidov/
Arthur Friedheim
· At the Fountain
Karl Davidov/
Moriz Rosenthal
· Springbrunnen
Claude Debussy
· Images: Reflets dans l’eau
· La plus que lente
· Preludes: Les collines d’Anacapri and Minstrels
Manuel de Falla
· Cubana
John Field
· Nocturnes:
        in E, No. 18, 'Le Midi'
        in E-flat major[1]
· Piano Sonata[1]
· Rondo[1]
Christoph W. Gluck/
Johannes Brahms
· Gavotte
Karl Goldmark
· Bedrängnis
· Traumgestalten
Charles Gounod/
Moriz Rosenthal
· Fantasie from Faust
Alfred Grünfeld
· Etude à la Tarantella
Georg Friedrich Händel
· Passacaglia from Suite No. 7 in G minor
· Suite No. 5 in E major: Aria con variazioni, 'Harmonious Blacksmith'
Joseph Haydn
· Andante con variazioni
Stephen Heller
· Two Preludes, Op. 81
Adolph von Henselt
· Berceuse
· Nocturne
· Piano Concerto in F minor (?)
· Si oiseau j’étais
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
· Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op. 81: Finale
· Rondo, Op. 11
Rafael Joseffy
· Berceuse
· Danse-Arabeske
· Waltz in D-flat major
Erich W. Korngold
· Three Pieces from Much Ado about Nothing
Erwin Lendvai
· Der Abenteurer, Op. 12: Allegro giusto
Theodor Leschetizky
· Berceuse
· Gavotte antique et Musette moderne
· Valse-Caprice
Anatoly K. Liadov
· Berceuse
· Preludes, Op. 46:
        No. 1
        No. 3
· Tabatiere à musique, Op. 32
Franz Liszt · Années de Pélèrinage: Au bord d’une source and Au lac de Wallenstadt
· Ballade No. 2 in B minor
· Concert Etude in F minor, 'La Leggierezza'
· Consolations[1]
· Fantasie from Don Juan
· Fantasie on Hungarian Folk Melodies (based on the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14)
· Hexaméron
· Hungarian Rhapsodies:
      No. 2 (cadenza by Rosenthal)
      No. 11
      No. 12
· Liebestraum No. 3
· Mazurka brillante
· Mephisto Waltz No. 1
· Paganini Etudes: La Campanella
· Piano Concerto:
      No. 1 in E-flat major
      No. 2 in A major
· Rhapsodie Espagnole (arranged by Rosenthal)
· Transcendental Etudes:
      Feux follets, No. 10
      Harmonies du soir
· Valse-Caprice
· Valse-Impromptu
· Valse oubliée No. 1
· Venezia e Napoli
· Waldesrauschen    
Franz Liszt/
Moriz Rosenthal 
· Hungarian Rhapsody[6]
Giovanni Battista Martini · Gavotte (Les Moutons)
Felix Mendelssohn · Rondo capriccioso, Op. 14
· Songs without Words:
      Op. 19, No. 1
      Op. 62, No. 6
      Op. 67, No. 4
· Variations sérieuses, Op. 54
Ignaz Moscheles · Two etudes
      Etude chromatique
      other not specified
Moritz Moszkowski [works not specified]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Piano Sonata in A, K. 331
Ede Poldini · Concert Etude, Op. 19, No. 1
· Humoreske in 5/4 Time from Petite Suite, Op. 97 (?)
· Marche mignonne
· excerpts from Marionettes
· Menuet
· Rosen: Fünf Walzer für Klavier, Op. 55
· Valse de ballet from Scènes de ballet, Op. 18
Sergei Rachmaninoff [works not specified]
Jean-Philippe Rameau · Musette en rondeau
· Tambourin
Carl Reinecke · Impromptu on a Theme from Schumann’s Manfred for two pianos[3]
Moriz Rosenthal · Barcarolle[8]
· Mazurkas[8]
· Papillons
· Piano Concerto in G minor[8]
· Prélude
· Romanza
· Tango-Habañera[8]
· Variationen über ein eigenes Thema[8]
      Theme
      Arabeske
      Scherzando ma deciso
      Aria
      Ballabile
      Nocturne
      À la Tarantella
      Tempo di Mazurka
      Petite Etude
      Feuillet d’album
      Finale con Intermezzi
Gioachino Rossini/
Franz Liszt
· Overture to William Tell
Anton Rubinstein · At the Brook
· Bal Costumé: Andalouse and Toréador
· Barcarolles (incl. Nos. 4 and 5)
· Miniatures: Sérénade, Valse, and Près du ruisseau
· Piano Concerto[1]
· Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15, No. 2
· Valse allemande (with a theme from Weber’s Der Freischütz)
· Valse-Caprice
Camille Saint-Saëns · Etude en forme de valse
· Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor
· Rhapsodie d’Auvergne
· Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for two pianos[3]
Emil von Sauer · Moto perpetuo en octaves [Octave Etude in E major]
Domenico Scarlatti · Sonatas[1]
Domenico Scarlatti/
Carl Tausig
· Capriccio (Sonata K. 20)
Xaver Scharwenka · Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 32
Paul von Schloezer · Etude de Concert in E-flat major
Franz Schubert · Impromptu in F minor, Op. 142[1]
· Moments Musicaux, Op. 94, Nos. 1–4
· Piano Sonata (Fantasie-Sonata) in G major, Op. 78
· Wanderer Fantasie, Op. 15
Franz Schubert/
Franz Liszt
· Soirées de Vienne No. 6
· Ständchen (Hark! Hark! The Lark!)
· Winterreise: Der Lindenbaum
Franz Schubert/
Carl Tausig
· Marche Militaire[3]
Robert Schumann · Albumblätter, Op. 124: Ländler and Schlummerlied
· Carnaval, Op. 9
· Etudes symphoniques, Op. 13
· Fantasie, Op. 17
· Fantasiestücke Op. 12:
      Des Abends, Warum (?)
      In der Nacht
      Traumes-Wirren
· Kreisleriana, Op. 16
· Novellettes, Op. 21
      No. 2
      No. 4
· Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
· Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 11: Aria
· Six Studies for Pedal Piano, Op. 56
· Waldszenen, Op. 82: Vogel als Prophet
Ludwig Schytte · Etude
· Pantomimen, Op. 30, for four hands[3]:
      Pierrot
      Harlequin
      Columbine
      Finale
· Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 28
· Piano Sonata in B major, Op. 53
· Schwedische Lieder und Tänze, Op. 52:
      No. 2[3]
      No. 3[3]
· Über die Steppe
· Valse noble
· Vision
Alexander Scriabin · Etudes
      in D-flat major
      in, F-sharp major
      in F-sharp minor
· Poème, Op. 32, No. 1
Giovanni Sgambati · Nänie
· Toccata, Op. 18, No. 4
Charles Villiers Stanford [works not specified]
Johann Strauss II/
Moriz Rosenthal
Various Rosenthal compositions based on the themes of Strauss under various titles including:
· Wiener Carneval
· Humoreske über Themen von Johann Strauss
· Fantasie über 'An der schonen blauen Donau,' etc.
· Fantasie über Themen aus: 'An der schonen blauen Donau' und 'Die Fledermaus'
· Fantasie über 'An der schonen blauen Donau' u. andere Motive von Johann Strauss
· Fantasia um Johann Strauss über die Walzer: 'An der schönen blauen Donau', 'Die Fledermaus'
und 'Freut euch des Lebens'.
Igor Stravinsky · Etude in D major, Op. 7, No. 2
Karol Szymanowski · Theme and variations in B-flat minor, Op. 3
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky · Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
· Romance in F minor, Op. 5
· additional not specified
Sigismund Thalberg Thème original et étude in A minor, Op. 45, 'Repeated Notes'
Carl Maria von Weber

· Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65
· Piano Sonatas:
     No. 1 in C, Op. 24: Rondo, 'Perpetuum mobile'
     No. 2 in A-flat, Op. 39 (edited by Liszt)
· Rondo brillante, Op. 62, 'La Gaîté'



Notes

This list is derived from various sources which are not exhaustive, nor do they always give full details.

1. Specific details not known.
2. E-flat major, other two not specified.
3. Joint performance.
4. At least fifteen, including those listed.
5. 'Maiden's Wish' arranged by Rosenthal.
6. Arranged from Numbers 10 and 12.
7. 'Etude chromatique' and the other not specified.
8. In doubt.

Sources

Michell, M. and A. Evans, eds. Moriz Rosenthal in Word and Music. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.

 


 






 



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