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Arnoldo Sartorio: Bauern-Kirmes (Charakterstück)

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a musical depiction from 1917 of a farmers' carnival or fair by the German composer Arnoldo Sartorio (1853-1936).
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Arnoldo Sartorio (1853-1936) was a German composer of Italian ancestry. Born in Frankfurt, he studied and worked in Germany. He wrote very many salon and educational piano pieces, and a contemporary magazine marked his achieving Op. 1000 in 1912 (he later exceeded Op. 1200) http://scriabin.com/etude/1912/09/arnold-sartorio-well-known-composer-reaches-opus-1000.html . As with Czerny some of these high opus numbers are sets of pieces and not individual works, so he was genuinely prolific.  By the time Sartorio wrote this, he seems to have abandoned opus numbers.  In the middle section of this short pieces, the instruments tune up, and their is a brief evocation of what seems to be an oompah-band, before the music returns to the opening folk-dance-like idea.  I couldn't find a picture of a farmers' fair, but instead my thumbnail features 'Shooting Fair at the Tegernsee' (1850) by Lorenzo Quaglio II (1793-1869).
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