Persichetti, Vincent. (1915 - 1987)
Fourth Piano Sonata - PROOF COPY #1 with Manuscript Corrections
New York: Independent Music Publisher. [Ca. 1950]. Spiral bound dyline proof copy made from the composer's manuscript. 27 pp. with manuscript corrections in whiteout and pencil on 13 pages and with a list of corrections also written on the inside front board. The score was published in 1951 by Elkan-Vogel. Worldcat lists no copies of this dyline rehearsal edition, presumably issued in a very small number, this being identified in the composer's hand on the front label "PROOF / Copy #1 / Fourth Piano Sonata / by / Vincent Persichetti."As both composer and teacher, Persichetti was a highly influential figure in America’s musical landscape. His composition students include such diverse musical figures as Thelonious Monk, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Jacob Druckman, Peter Schickele (a.k.a. P.D.Q. Bach), and Einojuhani Rautavaara, and he taught for four decades at the Juilliard School (from 1947 until his death in 1987), also producing a seminal music theory text, Twentieth Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice (New York, 1961). Prodigiously prolific as a composer in many genres, his piano music, a complete body of literature in itself, consists of six sonatinas, three volumes of poems, a concerto and a concertino for piano and orchestra, serenades, a four-hand concerto, a two-piano sonata, twelve solo piano sonatas, and various shorter works. The expansive Sonata No. 4 (1949) is sometimes acknowledged as an arrival point for Persichetti’s individual voice. It was first performed at the League of Composers, NY, December 27, 1949 by the composer himself. (11813)
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