Back in high school when I was still taking piano lessons, I played the some of the Mompou Cançons i danses, including this one (very poorly). Love ‘em.
NTT: Some of the harmonies and rhythms at the beginning of the excerpt made for a moment made me think it was late 1800s/early 1900s American, but the longer it went, the more I drifted to mid-1800s Europe. Triangulating those hunches, my first guess is Gottschalk, though if it is by a European, my guess is Robert Schumann.
NTT: I agree with Eric: the last three quarters of this or so sound very much like Schumann, but the very beginning does sound American (Copland was my very first thought). Of course, there are probably lots of clues Will could have given about Schumann without giving away the answer, so it's probably not him.
I love this series so much
Back in high school when I was still taking piano lessons, I played the some of the Mompou Cançons i danses, including this one (very poorly). Love ‘em.
NTT: Some of the harmonies and rhythms at the beginning of the excerpt made for a moment made me think it was late 1800s/early 1900s American, but the longer it went, the more I drifted to mid-1800s Europe. Triangulating those hunches, my first guess is Gottschalk, though if it is by a European, my guess is Robert Schumann.
NTT: I agree with Eric: the last three quarters of this or so sound very much like Schumann, but the very beginning does sound American (Copland was my very first thought). Of course, there are probably lots of clues Will could have given about Schumann without giving away the answer, so it's probably not him.