Daniel Steibelt; Piano Concerto No.2 in E min (1796)

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  • Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt (1765-1823) was a German composer. He was a contemporary and bitter rival of Beethoven, refusing to be in a room with him after being humiliated in a piano dual. Several of his later concertos have been recorded - here is the 4th: • Harp Concerto (Piano C... (soloist is a harp in this recording, but it's written for piano) and the 6th: • Daniel Gottlieb - Conc... (just a solo reduction on this one). The 3rd, 5th, and 7th have been recorded by Howard Shelley on the Hyperion label, and can all now be found on TH-cam (too many links to post, as they do separate videos for each movement, but a simple search will find them). But to my knowledge, the first 2 have never been recorded in any form, which is where I come in. I did the first last week: • Daniel Steibelt; Piano... , and this is the second. (There is apparently an 8th concerto as well, featuring a chorus, one of the first to do so, but I've found neither recording nor manuscript of this.)
    Movements:
    0:00 - Allegro moderato
    15:40 - Rondo
    We have another two-movement concerto from Mr. Steibelt. A bit unusual for his time, as the three-movement standard we know today was well-established by that time. (See: Mozart, though you can go back to C.P.E. Bach as well. His brother J.C. Bach did many of his in two movements though.) Steibelt's 3rd, 4th, and 5th concertos all have three movements, but he went back to two for the 6th and 7th. I haven't found the 8th anywhere, so not sure on that one.
    The manuscript didn't have as many serious errors as in the 1st concerto, but there were still quite a lot of missing accidentals, which I've corrected as best as I know how. The general rule for him seems to be that an accidental applies until told otherwise, rather than until the end of the measure as in modern notation. Except when it only applies to 1 note and not the rest of the measure, and you just have to figure that out by listening to it. This score was also very lacking in dynamic markings. There's some, but not nearly enough to sound correct as written, so I've taken some artistic liberty in that respect as well.
    Disclaimer: Yes, it's synthesized. Obviously real musicians with real instruments would be vastly superior, but this simulated performance is better than nothing at all, which is what existed previously. My greatest wish is that these videos will inspire someone with the means to arrange a real performance and hopefully record and publish it so we can hear them in their full glory. If that someone is you, or you know of an existing recording of this, please let me know and I may add a link to this description.
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  • @CalixtaAndreula
    @CalixtaAndreula 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Do you have xml file for the synthesized midi?

    • @Darrel_Hoffman
      @Darrel_Hoffman  8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I have the MuseScore files I created for this, and that can export to XML, but I've never done that before, so I'm not sure how the fidelity is. They are also optimized for audio over visual, so I did some things that are maybe not pretty in the interests of making it sound better. (e.g. spelling out ornaments explicitly rather than just using the symbols, doubling up on the string parts for a fuller sound, etc.)
      If you just want the sheet music, the original PDF's are free on IMSLP, which is where I found them. Link is in the description. There's one file for the piano (which was also used for the visuals in this video) and another for the orchestra parts.