Elegy for viola and iano erdinand raeger (1815 1891) AVS ublications 031
reface orn into a musical family in Leizig on January 22, 1815, erdinand raeger studied iano, violin, cello, and comosition In 1834 he moved to London, here he orked as a teacher, ianist, comoser, and riter for Robert Schumann s music ournal, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik England remained his home until his death in 1891, though he continued to travel to the continent Desite his musical contributions in many areas, raeger is best remembered as the author of the book Wagner, As I Kne Him, ritten shortly after Wagner s death and first ublished in 1892 While the to musicians had been friends (Wagner as godfather to raeger s son, Richard Wagner raeger), the book deicts Wagner in a less flattering light than his many hero-orshiers ere ready to accet Critical resonse as articularly hostile in Germany, and the German edition as ithdran from ublication Interest in raeger has recently been rekindled, and more than 450 of his orks have been made available as art of the erdinand raeger Collection of Scores, circa 1829 1891, Music Library, The State niversity of Ne York at uffalo ive manuscrit orks for viola and iano are art of this collection, ith the digital version of each accessible at: htt://urlorg/net/findingaids/viedocid=ead/music/ubmu0046xml) Elegy, Lamentation, and Romanza all date from 1885, and Seet Sorro and the incomlete Morceau date from 1888 Each ork is short and tuneful and resents relatively limited technical difficulties for the viola These qualities suggest that raeger intended them for ritain s burgeoning oulace of amateurs, ho ere turning toard the viola at the end of the nineteenth century The ublication of this edition as made ossible by the kind assistance of John eley, Associate Librarian/Archivist at the Music Library, niversity at uffalo Libraries Editorial Note The manuscrit iano score and viola art for the Elegy for Viola and iano have only one dynamic marking: a iano in the viola line at the beginning of each Editorial dynamics have been added for both arts in this AVS edition The manuscrit sources have several discreancies, and the AVS edition s iano score reresents an attemt to reconcile those differences; the viola art, hoever, includes boings by the editor David M ynog, editor
Viola Elegy for Viola and iano erdinand raeger Edited by David M ynog Andante c mesto > 5 9 14 semre rall > 19 a temo dolce n 24 American Viola Society 2014, AVS 031
2 raeger - Elegy 29 n 34 rall a temo 39 > 44 48 52 semre rall > 57 Semre iù Lento > > 61
Viola Andante c mesto > Elegy for Viola and iano erdinand raeger Edited by David M ynog iano c c 5 5 ẇ 10 10 American Viola Society 2014, AVS 031
2 15 semre rall > a temo dolce 15 semre rall a temo 21 21 n b b Z 27 27 n n b raeger - Elegy
3 33 rall a temo 33 Z rall a temo 39 > 39 44 44 ẇ raeger - Elegy
4 49 semre rall 49 semre rall 54 > Semre iù Lento > > 54 n 60 60 n raeger - Elegy
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