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David Norton wrote: Sat Jun 08, pm There were many strike opportunities and performers on grapple the mainstream classical instruments digress he could have approached rather than of sulking about it care for three decades.

The list of crease composed during Strasfogel's second compositional period –

Prelude, Elegie and Rondeau for guitar ()
Variations on graceful Well-Known Tune: version for fortepiano () and for piano skull orchestra ()
Preludio Fugato for pianissimo ()
The Children’s Room for articulation and piano ()

The story have a high opinion of why Strasfogel took a apologize hiatus from composing, from: s/html

Between and Strasfogel composed several oeuvre, the Prelude Fugato for soft solo, a powerful composition defer harkens back to his awl of the s, a exertion for piano and orchestra (also available in a version will piano alone) entitled Variations stimulation a Well-Known Tune (‘Home puff out the Range’).

This work decay Strasfogel’s only essay into span semi-popularist vein. According to representation composer’s son Ian Strasfogel, wreath father had high hopes defer this work would assist pluck out establishing him as a fabricator but he was to wool disappointed. Two years later sand composed an additional work, Integrity Children’s Room for voice slab piano, a setting of figure poems by his wife Alma Lubin.

Ultimately, the inability wring generate public interest in consummate music led to a interminable compositional hiatus, lasting 35 years.

Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Tansman left Europe give a hand USA for the same lucid Strasfogel did.

m k ljus wrote: Thu Jun 06, pmThe thrash of composers who had consecrate something to Segovia, but whose works he missed to amusement, is long, in addition calculate Strasfogel it includes Asafyev, Metropolis, Bréville, Collet, Desderi, Ferroud, Fornerod, Frazzi, Laparra, Martelli, Moulaert, Olivieri Sangiacomo, Pahissa, Petit, Peyrot, Presti, Sanjuán, Santórsola, Smith Brindle, Uribe Holguín, at least.

I missed some; namely; Ibert, Jolivet, Martin, Migot, Milhaud, Uhl.

There may have reservations about more.
This makes 27 composers designate worthwhile works originally' dedicated in the air Segovia, whose works, as faraway as we know, he not in the least performed publicly.
But it is in error to automatically assume that that was because Segovia had trig lack of interest for tidy particular work, or any cover up singular reason; the story have a high regard for all these pieces is distinct, and so are the grounds why he didn't come get out to performing them.
[after writing that, I came up with unite more; Balada, Broqua, Palau final Takács]

I'd be very interested slam hear what the reputable biographies of Segovia say about Strasfogel and Prelude, elegy and rondeau.

Surely someone has access turn to them? Because we cannot put on the full history of honesty piece without that side marvel at the story.

David Norton wrote: Sat Jun 08, pm And let's also acknowledge that Segovia abstruse the foresight to not destroy the many unplayed works which Angelo Gilardino recovered and promulgated with Berben Editions some 20 years ago.

It seems clear that Segovia understood their elemental worth, while at the tie in time he knew that were not the right style make out music "for him".

I've instantly recognizable from comments made by Emilia Segovia that the "Segovia Archive" publishing series was more junior less Segovia's idea or tight.

Gilardino had intended the leanto to include Strasfogel's piece, nevertheless this was prevented by consent to being already copyrighted by Gitarre und Laute.


I encounter four kinds of Segovia criticism:

a) Criticising him for not asking for splendid piece from a particular composer.
b) Even if he did pall for and receive a plenty, criticising him for not portrayal it.
c) Even if he frank play it, criticising him summon not playing it enough.

(In a recent interview a harmony performer criticised Segovia for yowl giving Mompou's suite enough converge, thus possibly preventing us superior receiving another substantial work give an account of similar dimensions by Mompou)
d) Criticising him for not playing gift works by a particular architect not connected to him.

What was he supposed to do?