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ICSM Online Journal > Listings A ‘Weinberg Service’ from Moscow (via Hamburg) by Ulrike Patow posted 24 May 2006 Peer Music, the Hamburg-based music publisher, is pleased to announce a service to make the music of the Polish-born Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–96) available in the west, in facsimiles of the (largely manuscript) scores in the composer’s archive in Moscow. The following scores are now in stock: Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 5 (1940; printed edition 1990; 23pp, 14’), €11.50 Three Romances , Op. 7 (after A. Prokofyev and Ye. Rivina) (1945; MS; 8pp, 6’), €4.00 Piano Sonata, No. 2, Op. 8 (1942; printed edition 1990, 31pp, 18’), €15.50 Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano, Op. 12 (1943; MS; 10+29pp, 19’), €19.50 Jewish Songs , Op. 13 (= Childrens’ Songs) 1st cycle (after I. Perez, 1943; MS; 26pp, 11’), €13.00 Jewish Songs , Op. 17, 2nd cycle (after S. Galkin ; 1944; MS; 31pp, 12’), €15.50 [a concert presentation of both cycles of Jewish Songs is reviewed here] Three Romances , Op. 22 (after A. Mickiewicz; 1945; MS; 10pp, 15’; Polish text), €5.00 Six Romances , Op. 25 (after F. Tyutchev; 1945; MS; 20pp); €10.00 Elegy , Op. 32, for baritone and pno (after Fr. Schiller; 1946; MS; 8pp, 8’), €4.00 FourRomances, Op. 38 (after M. Rylsky and G. Nikolayeva; 1947; MS; 7pp, A3, 10’), €4.50 Sonatine , Op. 46, for violin and piano (1949; printed edition 1956, 10+28pp, 14’), €19.00 Moldavian Rhapsody , Op. 47, No. 3 (version for violin and piano, 1952; printed edition 1953, 10+28pp, ), €19.00 Sonata for double-bass solo, Op. 108 (1971; MS; 15pp, 26’), €7.50 Six Children’s Songs , Op. 139 (after various poets; 1947–84; MS; 10pp); €5.00 Please add 7% VAT and the following postage (up to 500g): €2 (domestic), €5 (international). These are the first of what we hope will be a large number of Weinberg’s works at last made available to a wider public. If you are interested in a specific work, please do write or call to enquire about it. Contact: Ulrike Patow Peer Music Farmsener Höhe 32 c D-22159 Hamburg Tel. 0049-40-45 74 69 Fax 0049-4022 53 44 E-mail: ulrike.patow [at] t-online.de back to top		ICSM Journal Home Search this section Articles Listings Reviews Obituaries Notify me of new postings


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