Daniel Steibelt; Piano Concerto No.1 in C (1794)
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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 KZread (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. IMSLP has scores for both, and I have now also done the second: • Daniel Steibelt; Piano... . (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.)
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...
IMSLP: imslp.org/wiki/Category:Steib...
Movements:
0:00 - I. Allegro
15:05 - II. Rondo --
18:42 - Pastorale (technically still part of the 2nd movement)
The score has numerous serious errors - half of the parts had a missing measure in the 1st movement, causing them to not line up, so it was fun figuring out where they were supposed to go - which is not the same place on every part. Also copious missing accidentals, I've done my best to correct them. Additionally, the keyboard part is written as a solo reduction, and it's not always clear when it's supposed to be playing and when it should yield to the orchestra. I generally silenced it when it was doubling parts on other instruments, but there was a good deal of guesswork in this process. The tempo was a bit of a tricky choice. There are some very fast runs of 32nd notes in the 1st movement, which might be difficult to play at this tempo, but if I slow it down enough to make those sound more reasonable, the rest of the movement really drags. I've compromised a bit by adding rallento's on some of those runs.
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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Thanks a lot for this concerto and the subsequent number 2. It's unbelievable how a very good composer like Steibelt is criminally underrated and mostly forgotten. Whatever I happen to encounter it's as a minimum good music, often great music. He's unfortunately solely remembered for the infamous defeat in an improvisation's challenge in Vienna against Beethoven. As much as Beethoven is the greatest (or amongst the greatest) of all times, Steibelt would certainly deserve a much better destiny and more executions of his works. Coming to his 7 piano concertos you have fille out the gap but you made me curious about his 8th ...... God knpows if there's any score...... It's still desirable that Shelley would opt one day to complete Steibelt recording and perhaps even catch up with piano sonatas, also not entirely available. However your choice is very much appreciated: at least we can guess how the music would be and, my firs reaction, concertos number 1 & 2 are as good as Ferdinand Ries jobs.
@Darrel_Hoffman
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Yes, the 8th would be very interesting to hear as it's apparently one of the first piano concerti to include a chorus. (Beethoven once again beat him to the punch with the Choral Fantasy, but that's not quite a concerto.) Another unrecorded piano concerto including a chorus is the Henri Herz #6, which is the only one of his 8 that Shelley did not record. From what I hear the orchestral parts have been lost, so I've been working on a reconstruction based on the cues in the piano solo part. I can't synthesize the voices, however, so that one is going to be questionable.
@pietrolandri6081
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@@Darrel_Hoffman yes thanks I very much regret Shelley did not record HH #6. But would be interesting to hear your reconstruction. It's sad how much music have been lost due to war, fire, careless attitude, self or posthumous destruction, etc. (my favorite rediscover would be the cello romances of Schumann destroyed by Clara: if only one additional manuscript existed, hidden somewhere by Joachim who salvaged violin concerto by miracle ..... Also Sibelius whole eight symphony would not be bad ..... )
@Darrel_Hoffman
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It'll be posted here eventually, but obviously a reconstruction takes much more work than mere transcriptions, so this will take a bit longer. Part of the problem is that while the piano reduction does tell you vaguely what instruments are doing what during the Tutti sections, you get no such clues at all during the piano parts, so my arrangement may end up being a bit sparse for that, but it's better than nothing.
@pietrolandri6081
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@@Darrel_Hoffman God bless your pioneering job. Very much appreciated!