Basic Details

Title
Ten Etudes for Piano
Availability
Out of Print
Category
Solo Instrumental (with or without Piano Accompaniment)
Instrumentation
pft
Duration
17'
Publisher
Carl Fischer Inc
Premiere
  • World: Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY, November 27th, 1945 (Robert Schmitz, piano)
Parts/Movements
  1. Repeating Tremolo (Fanfare)
  2. Tenor Lead (Madrigal)
  3. Fingered Fifths (Canon)
  4. Fingered Glissando (Aeolian Harp)
  5. Double Glissando (Waltz)
  6. For the Weaker Fingers (Music Box Lullaby)
  7. Oscillating Arm (Spinning Song)
  8. Five-Finger Exercise (Portrait of Briggs Buchanan)
  9. Parallel Chords (Tango)
  10. Ragtime Bass
Member Works
  1. Five-Finger Exercise (Portrait of Briggs Buchanan) (1943)

Cataloging Information

Copyright
©1946 Carl Fischer
Year Composed
1943-44
M.S. Location
The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
Cardell Number
In6.*
Meckna Number
W181

Additional Info

Notes

No. 8. Five-Finger Exercise from the portrait of Briggs Buchanan (Aug 15, 1943; See W267)