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Maud Wingate: The Ghost, Valse (1923)

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2014 · Music

Although she used the evocative pseudonym 'Carlyon de Lyle' for various songs and piano pieces published in the 1910s and 1920s, this waltz was published under her own name by the British composer Maud Wingate (1877-1958). She was born in Lanarkshire (her father was a Scottish surgeon), but she moved to the Bristol area with her English mother after her father's early death. In some of her pieces she collaborated with her husband 'John Alleyne' (actually John Allen Bartlett (1861-1933)), whom she married in 1922, and who was also noted as an automatic writer at seances. The piece is dedicated to Lady Peirse, the wife of Admiral Sir Richard Peirse, a retired naval commander and Somerset grandee, who lived in Combe Down, near Bath. Lady Peirse was, for a time in the 1920s, president of the Bath and Somerset branch of the English Folk Dance Society. Given her interest in automatic writing, Maud Wingate was well qualified to write a piece with this title!

With its octaves and chords, this piece is a struggle for those of us with small stretches! The ending of the piece, as indicated in the score, is somewhat ad lib. I have chosen to follow the 'trio' section with a recap. of the dramatic introduction, and then passed straight on to the coda. The piece could be extended by playing more of the opening section. Thumbnail image from t.ly/0Lfv .
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Maud Wingate: The Ghost, Valse (1923)

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