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Gustav Lange : In der Spinnstube, Genrestück, Op.344

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a lively spinning song by the German composer Gustav Lange (1830-89)
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The German composer Gustav Lange (1830-89) was very popular in the 19th century for ' Blumenlied ' , 'Eidelweiss ' and other salon pieces. Unlike many of his contemporary composers for the parlour and salon who racked up apparently large catalogues of works by giving individual opus numbers to short pieces, Lange was genuinely prolific. For example, his Op. 171 'Lieder Blüthen' is a set of some 59 fantasies on popular songs of the day, by composers including Franz Abt, Reichardt and Conradin Kreutzer, as well as Bendel - which might well take over four hours to perform in its entirety - maybe a good subject for a piano marathon!This piece, from around 1886, is far closer to Wagner's spinning chorus from 'Der fliegende Holländer' than to Schubert's 'Gretchen am Spinnrade' as the title translates as 'In the spinning room', and so the piece is really a work song.  It is undoubtedly one of the hardest Lange pieces I have come across, and is energetic throughout.  My thumbnail shows a photo of the interior of the Magnolia Cotton Mills spinning room ca.1912-13, complete with child laboures!
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