Carl Bohm : Murmelnder Quell (Murmuring Spring) Op. 327 No. 8
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Channel: PSearPianist · 2014 · Music
Bohm (1844-1920) was an eminent German composer of salon music, and a 'cash cow' for his publisher Simrock, who apparently used the profits on his pieces to finance publication of works by Brahms. As well as piano music he also wrote violin and chamber music. The publisher's catalogue indicates that this opus number contains 78 separate pieces, which makes Bohm a very prolific composer indeed. If all the pieces were as long as this one (and those I have seen are all 5-6 pages long), this one opus would constitute over 400 pages of published score. The fascinating thing about this particular piece is the similarity of its main theme to the well-known girls' chorus 'Climbing over Rocky Mountain' from Gilbert & Sullivan's 'The Pirates of Penzance'. Bohm's piece seems to have been published several years after the operetta - so did he know the piece. You decide! Thumbnail image derived from https://tinyurl.com/wrq7ncv . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk (Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: http://wa.me/441444483794 ) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pianogems
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