Talk:Alexander Goldenweiser (composer)

Requested move
The standard English spelling of this pianist is "Goldenweiser". "Alexander Goldenveyzer" has grand total of 52 Google hits, most of which are either from Wikipedia or mirrors thereof. "Alexander Goldenweiser" pianist has 1400 ("pianist" inserted to distinguish from other Alexander Goldenweisers). Surely we should go back to Alexander Goldenweiser being a disambiguation page (as it was until recently). See Romanization of Russian: "When something has a conventional name in English, use that name instead of transliterating." Grover cleveland (talk) 16:03, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Support, same issue with Zverev I suppose? ALTON   .ıl  20:36, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I would say so. Grover cleveland (talk) 03:50, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Knowledge of alternate spellings is helpful, mind, since on Worldcat as-opposed-to-Google it's the other spellings, not Goldenweiser that acquire more hits. Schissel | Sound the Note! 20:07, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

First Russian compsoer to write a set of polyphonic pieces in each of the major and minor keys
Unless I'm misunderstanding what a "set of polyphonic pieces" is, not sure this offhand claim copied directly from the Toccata Classics (promotional) website about this early 1930s piece is true. With Rachmaninoff's Op 32 set of Preludes from 1910, Rachmaninoff completed his series of 24 preludes in all 24 "standard" major and minor keys... And the shadow of WTC looms so large that I wouldn't be surprised to hear if someone before Rachmaninoff had attempted a similar exercise (my money is on Taneyev or Arensky). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.118.32.60 (talk) 06:02, 3 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I think "contrapuntal pieces" means specifically in this context works like fugues, "contrapuntal sketches" (as with this Op.12 set by Goldenweiser), etc- works whose very title announces their contrapuntal texture :) Schissel | Sound the Note! 20:06, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

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Worklist
At least an incomplete-but-in-progress list of his compositions would be good? Besides the string quartet in E minor Op.18 (published 1940 but composed- when?), the piano trio in E minor Op.31 (composed 1950), the preludes also noted, the Fantasia for voice and piano on words by Fet, ...

Also, what do you mean by "polyphonic" pieces? Feliks Blumenfeld's Op.17 preludes in all the major and minor keys (published 1892-94) predate the Goldenweiser set and are hardly monophonic, nor rococo, no? (Ah, perhaps because they're deliberately called contrapuntal sketches, or something.) I think I understand, then. Hrm. Schissel | Sound the Note! 20:04, 22 February 2019 (UTC)