Léon Tolstoi
La Valse de Tolstoï
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Léon Tolstoi
La Valse de Tolstoï
- Instrumentation Piano
- Composer Léon Tolstoi
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Editions Bourgès R.
- Order no. EBRA083
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Description:
The ANACROUSE collection offers novice and experienced pianists alike a wide choice of classical works, from the Renaissance to the modern era.
We have set ourselves the goal of offering both "must-haves" from the classical repertoire and pieces by sometimes forgotten composers, all of undeniable pedagogical value. Each piece, sold individually, has been the subject of careful editorial work, both in terms of the musical text and its engraving, in order to guarantee musicians the conditions essential to the pleasures derived from frequent trade in these works.
The scores are offered in the form of traditional works (paper sheets), and also available by download.
Was Leo Tolstoy, a major writer of Russian literature, a great composer?
Listening to this Waltz in F major for Piano, given its simplicity and duration, one might doubt it. And to this day, we have no record of other works composed by Tolstoy.
In the late 90s, the BBC broadcast an intervention by Isaiah Berlin (philosopher, president of the British Academy) who spoke about Tolstoy's work "The Kreutzer Sonata", the story of a man obsessively jealous of his wife, who kills the violinist with whom she plays just because he assumes his wife's infidelity. As an aside to the analysis, he said: "Tolstoy was very musical! He wrote a waltz [...] I've heard that he played it. It's been published in a book. My wife played it for me, it's very simple".
From then on, this waltz was found, in manuscript, as an appendix to a Russian work entitled "Leo Tolstoy and Music" (N. Gusev and Gol'denveizer). In an interview, Gol'denveizer says: "In his youth, Count Lev Nikolayevich (Tolstoy) composed a waltz for the piano. When, in 1906, I was at Lasnaia Poliana (the Tolstoy family estate where the writer ended his life, and where he was laid to rest), Lev Nikolayevich played it for us. We then took the score. That was the only time we ever heard Lev Nikolayevich play it".
Leon Tolstoy's Waltz in F Major is presented here in its most faithful transcription, based on several recordings.
We have set ourselves the goal of offering both "must-haves" from the classical repertoire and pieces by sometimes forgotten composers, all of undeniable pedagogical value. Each piece, sold individually, has been the subject of careful editorial work, both in terms of the musical text and its engraving, in order to guarantee musicians the conditions essential to the pleasures derived from frequent trade in these works.
The scores are offered in the form of traditional works (paper sheets), and also available by download.
Was Leo Tolstoy, a major writer of Russian literature, a great composer?
Listening to this Waltz in F major for Piano, given its simplicity and duration, one might doubt it. And to this day, we have no record of other works composed by Tolstoy.
In the late 90s, the BBC broadcast an intervention by Isaiah Berlin (philosopher, president of the British Academy) who spoke about Tolstoy's work "The Kreutzer Sonata", the story of a man obsessively jealous of his wife, who kills the violinist with whom she plays just because he assumes his wife's infidelity. As an aside to the analysis, he said: "Tolstoy was very musical! He wrote a waltz [...] I've heard that he played it. It's been published in a book. My wife played it for me, it's very simple".
From then on, this waltz was found, in manuscript, as an appendix to a Russian work entitled "Leo Tolstoy and Music" (N. Gusev and Gol'denveizer). In an interview, Gol'denveizer says: "In his youth, Count Lev Nikolayevich (Tolstoy) composed a waltz for the piano. When, in 1906, I was at Lasnaia Poliana (the Tolstoy family estate where the writer ended his life, and where he was laid to rest), Lev Nikolayevich played it for us. We then took the score. That was the only time we ever heard Lev Nikolayevich play it".
Leon Tolstoy's Waltz in F Major is presented here in its most faithful transcription, based on several recordings.