Another stumper in the NTT department, though I know that Joey is trying to make these not-too-hard, so I'll keep that as an extra bit of info.
I was slightly thrown by the clue, since I figured we'd hear a piano solo/concerto of some variety, but then we got an art song (?). And I couldn't suss out the language for the life of me.
A pianist-composer who played Chopin in Boston in 1885? Hmm... I feel like Saint-Saëns has to be a contender just on historical grounds (and it didn't sound like something that Saint-Saëns *couldn't* have written.)
The language might have been Russian, and I know that a lot of Russian musicians were coming over to the States to concertize in the late 19th century. Of them, I'm going to go a tad random with Anton Rubenstein.
I can't say I'm getting too too much from the musical content itself. A bit of modal mixture, which would point me again towards Russia, but it's not so much that I'd say I'm confident. It could be a different Eastern European, who may have had a penchant for the music of Chopin.
But perhaps—just maybe—this pianist composer in Boston was an American. I read Doug Shadle's book on 19th century American composers, but the only one I think of as a real possibility here would be Edward MacDowell.
Anyway, I'm probably wrong, but at least I showed my work. Saint-Saëns, Rubinstein, MacDowell.
NTT: Because stylistically I don't think I could pinpoint this to any one location, I'll stick with a couple of Boston-based composers for my guesses: Amy Beach and Charles Griffes, both of whom I could see writing in this style, though I'm not sure about their dates.
Another stumper in the NTT department, though I know that Joey is trying to make these not-too-hard, so I'll keep that as an extra bit of info.
I was slightly thrown by the clue, since I figured we'd hear a piano solo/concerto of some variety, but then we got an art song (?). And I couldn't suss out the language for the life of me.
A pianist-composer who played Chopin in Boston in 1885? Hmm... I feel like Saint-Saëns has to be a contender just on historical grounds (and it didn't sound like something that Saint-Saëns *couldn't* have written.)
The language might have been Russian, and I know that a lot of Russian musicians were coming over to the States to concertize in the late 19th century. Of them, I'm going to go a tad random with Anton Rubenstein.
I can't say I'm getting too too much from the musical content itself. A bit of modal mixture, which would point me again towards Russia, but it's not so much that I'd say I'm confident. It could be a different Eastern European, who may have had a penchant for the music of Chopin.
But perhaps—just maybe—this pianist composer in Boston was an American. I read Doug Shadle's book on 19th century American composers, but the only one I think of as a real possibility here would be Edward MacDowell.
Anyway, I'm probably wrong, but at least I showed my work. Saint-Saëns, Rubinstein, MacDowell.
NTT: Because stylistically I don't think I could pinpoint this to any one location, I'll stick with a couple of Boston-based composers for my guesses: Amy Beach and Charles Griffes, both of whom I could see writing in this style, though I'm not sure about their dates.