Emerson Concerto
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The "Emerson" Piano Concerto (also titled the "Emerson" Overture for Piano and Orchestra) was the unfinished draft of Charles Ives's "Emerson" movement of the Second Piano Sonata ("Concord, Mass. 1840–60").[1] Ives intended to convey his idea of Ralph Waldo Emerson.[1]
The first version of the Sonata movement, completed around 1919 (although Ives stated in his "Memos" that it was actually "finished" in 1913), had many simplified
photostat copy of the Transcriptions ("Copy C") shows how they were to be reinstated in writing (cf. the CD Ives Plays Ives
for his recordings). Most of the more complex original text passages of the Sonata movement were restored to the Sonata in its second edition, in the 1940s. The Concerto was edited from all the extant sources: the existing Concerto sketches, the Sonata movement, the Studies, the Transcriptions, and verbal memoranda regarding the evolution of the music that Ives wrote as program notes to the Sonata movement. The manuscript sources for each have many verbal memoranda that refer back to the original idea of the Concerto, identifying materials for piano cadenzas, and for specific orchestral instruments.
The "viola part" to the Sonata movement is not to be played by a
flute player
is explicitly called for.
Further reading
- Descriptive Catalogue of Ives's Music by James B. Sinclair (1999)
- David Gray Porter's writings on the Concerto and Ives's recordings
- Program notes for the Cleveland Orchestra's premiere performances from October 1, 2, 3 & 4, 1998. http://www.cim.edu/library/locate/pndetails.php?record=2487
References
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