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Hugo Reinhold: Acrostichon, Op.54 (1897)

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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4 Kleine poetische Tonstücke:
1—Erotik; 2—Lied; 3—Legende; 4—Arabeske
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The Viennese composer and pianist Hugo Reinhold (1854–1935) studied under Bruckner, among others, and wrote orchestral, chamber and piano music, and songs.  He is remembered for an Impromptu (from Op. 28) which is popular with piano students.

The title of this set is the Greek original of the English term 'acrostic', which is (per Wikipedia) "... a poem or other form of writing in which the first letter, syllable, or word of each line, paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text spells out a word or a message."  The first letters of the names of these pieces spell out the name "Ella"—but I do not have enough biographical information on Reinhold to know if this is significant.  There is no dedicatee, and I image the dedication is hidden in the acrostic.  The pieces in the set are fairly generic—and the eroticism implied in the title of the first piece seems extremely chaste!

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