Frühlingsnacht
Leopold Godowsky 1870–1938
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After Schumann·Transcription art·Song made pianistic·Elaborate texture
About the piece
A transcription of Schumann's song Fruhlingsnacht, Spring Night, the closing number of the Liederkreis Op. 39.
Godowsky was among the greatest of all arrangers, and his transcriptions do not merely accommodate a song to the piano but rethink it, weaving the vocal line into a texture of independent voices that could only exist on a keyboard.
The composer
Leopold Godowsky
1870–1938
Leopold Mordkhelovich Godowsky Sr. was a virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher, born in what is now Lithuania to Jewish parents, who became an American citizen in 1891. He was one of the most highly regarded performers of his time, known for his theories concerning the application of relaxed weight and economy of motion within pianistic technique – principles later propagated by his pupils, such as Heinrich Neuhaus.
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