August Stradal (17 May 1860,

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– 13 March 1930,

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) was a Czech virtuoso

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, arranger, composer, author and

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Career

A diverse piano arranger, Stradal arranged music from Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Buxtehude, Liszt, Mozart, Paganini, Purcell, Reubke, Strauss, Wagner and Vivaldi. A student of Anton Bruckner, he made solo piano arrangements of that composer's symphonies 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8. His pianistic credentials included studies with both

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and Franz Liszt, with whom he studied from late 1884, appearing in the latter's master classes in Weimar, Rome, and Pest, where he played some of Liszt's most difficult works. He arranged Liszt's 13 Symphonic Poems. He received the Czechoslovak State Award in 1928.

Selected works (solo piano)

* Bach - Organ sonata in E minor * Bach - Second Organ Concerto * Bach - Brandenburg Concertos nos.3 and 4 * Bach - Piano Concerto in F major * Bach W.F. - Fantasy and Fugue in A minor * Beethoven - String Quartet, Op.131 * Brahms - 3 Caprices after the Waltzes, Op.39 * Bruckner - String Quintet in F major * Buxtehude - Passacaglia in D minor * Buxtehude - Prelude and fugue in A minor * Buxtehude - Prelude and fugue in D minor * Buxtehude - Prelude and fugue in E minor (no.2) * Buxtehude - Prelude and fugue in F major * Buxtehude - Prelude and fugue in F# minor * Buxtehude - Prelude and fugue in G minor * Buxtehude - Prelude in E minor * Liszt - Dante Symphony * Transcriptions of all 13 of Liszt's Symphonic Poems * Liszt - Faust Symphony * Liszt - Es muss ein Wunderbares sein * Mozart - Symphony no.40 * Mozart - Canzone on The Marriage of Figaro * Paganini - Bravoure Study on Caprices * Purcell - Chaconne * Reubke - Sonata on the 94th Psalm * Stradal - Abenddämmerung * Strauss J - Concert paraphrase on the waltz "Dorfschwalben aus Österreich" * Wagner - Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond (from ''

Die Walküre (; ''The Valkyrie''), WWV 86B, is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (English: ''The Ring of the Nibelung''). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on ...

''); Der Ritt der Walküren (from Die Walküre); Schluss des letzten Aufzuges (from Die Walküre) Waldweben (from '' Siegfried''); Rheinfahrt aus dem Vorspiel (from ''

Götterdämmerung ' (; ''Twilight of the Gods''), WWV 86D, is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four music dramas titled (''The Ring of the Nibelung'', or ''The Ring Cycle'' or ''The Ring'' for short). It received its premiere at the on 17 August 1876, as ...

''); Trauermusik aus dem letzten Aufzug (from Götterdämmerung); Wesendonck-Lieder. * Vivaldi / J.S. Bach - Organ Concerto in D minor

References

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) and Viennese Musicians of 19th century
accessed April 8, 2008.
Anton Bruckner Symphony Versions Discography Compiled and Maintained by John F. Berky
accessed April 8, 2008.

External links

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