Joe, What a privilege to be taught by Seymour Bernstein!
There is also an English translation of Starke's piano method which may or may not contain the fingerings you are looking for: https://search.worldcat.org/de/title/1399019679 https://www.proquest.com/openview/ee30f2678f2ea8684788c2aac9d91ee2/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Best wishes, Wilfried -- PD Dr. Wilfried Lingenberg Amselstr. 10 66969 Lemberg https://uni-saarland.academia.edu/WilfriedLingenberg > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-bounces+w.lingenberg=t- > [email protected]] Im Auftrag von Joe Infurchia > Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Januar 2024 07:50 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [Tex-music] IMSLP contributor music question for Jean-Pierre > Coulon > > Hi there, I wasn’t sure who to email, but I think Mr. Jean-Pierre Coulon has > something to do with you guys and I hoped this might reach him somehow. I > saw his name on the company list and believe he’s the one person on earth > that owns a certain historical music book I’ve been researching that I found > on the Imslp library database. > > Hi Mr. Coulon, > I’m Joe Infurchia, a pianist, teacher and researcher from Connecticut (US). > I’m a current pupil of the 96 year old world piano legend Seymour Bernstein. > I’ve noticed you contribute a hefty amount of scans to the imslp. In preparing > for a solo recital I’m currently working on Beethoven’s Pastorale Sonata with > Seymour and have been looking for a very rare copy of Friedrich Starke’s > Wiener Pianoforte Schule, Op. 108; in particular, the second volume. There is > a copy that I see you miraculously had and generously posted a scan of > online. As you may know, Beethoven supposedly gave Starke his own > fingerings in the Andante as well as the Sonata’s final movement of his Op. > 28 (one of his favorites) and Starke republished them both in his Vienna > Piano School volume 2 back in 1820 (while Beethoven was still alive). I can > see > that the scan you posted is sadly not in high enough resolution in spots of > those pages to make out many of his fingerings. Seymour and I are very > interested in being able to see those pages (pages 62-69 of your scan) for > Beethoven’s own printed fingerings in higher contrast if at all possible. Do > you happen to have a better scan somewhere? > Also, thank you for contributing so much to the library. The historical finds > of > yours are truly inspirational treasures to the world, even from the other side > of the Atlantic pond! > Most gratefully, > Joe > > ------------------------------- > [email protected] mailing list > If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to > https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
