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Hercule en Dieu.
by Carl Ditters Von Dittersdorf and edited by Allen Badley. Artaria Editions/Theodore Presser Company (588 N. Gulph Rd., long of Prussia, PA 19406), 2O00. 31 pp., $28. Intermediate--late intermediate.
Artaria Editions (Wellington, New Zealand) has published a beautiful edition of Carl Ditters Von Dittersdorf's Sonata for Fortepiano, Four Hands, in C Major. The work is from a series of symphonies written in the early 1780s and based on Ovid's Metamorphoses. Although not all the symphonies survive, three are preserved in arrangements by the composer for piano duet. This edition contains one of those surviving duet versions, a work in four-movements (allegro e vivace, adagio non troppo, tempo di minuetto and vivace) varying in difficulty from intermediate to upper intermediate levels.
The edition is printed on heavy paper with a layout making it easy to read. The measures are numbered for ease in ensemble playing and rehearsing, but there are no fingerings given, few articulation suggestions and only an occasional dynamic marking--essentially this is an Urtext edition. The editor, Allen Badley, gives the reader just the right amount of information about the work's origin in the forward, and he reprints Von Dittersdorf's preface to the work, which ...
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...therefore has in fact failed to fail. These works were framed by the opening "Holberg" Suite by Grieg and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's "Rescue of Andromeda by Perseus" Symphony. The Grieg, for just the orchestra's strings, glistened...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Hercule en Dieu.