Leopold Godowsky

Title: Triakontameron Composer: Leopold Godowsky Original Publisher: Schirmer Godowsky's complete Triakontameron for piano as originally published in Schirmer's First Edition in 1920. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage audience growth.

This single-volume edition of hard-to-find arrangements of famous classical pieces offers terrific value to intermediate and advanced pianists. Designed to offer musicians a chance to play familiar masterworks, the selections encompass transcriptions by famous pianists, some of whom are remembered today solely for these arrangements. Contents include Ride of the Valkyries and other works by Wagner, three versions of Brahms's Lullaby, Chanson Bohême from Bizet's Carmen, Beethoven's Turkish March, Waltz of the Flowers from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, and pieces by Handel, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Strauss and others.