Henrique Jose Pedro Maria Carlos Oswald Born 14 April 1852 Rio de Janeiro Died 8 June 1931 Rio de Janeiro
His father was Swiss and his mother Italian. His father changed the family surname from Oschwald. He was initially taught music by his piano teacher mother and later with Gabriel Giraudon before leaving for Florence in 1868 to continue his studies. He stayed there until 1894.
Orchestral
Symphony Op.43 1910
Sinfonietta Op.27
Suite for orchestra 1883
Festa 1885
Piano Concerto Op.10 1888
Piano Concerto Op.28 both this and a string trio are quoted by different sources with the same opus number *
Andante and variations for piano and strings
Violin Concerto
Chamber
Piano Quintet in C Op.18 1887
Piano Quartet Op.26
Piano Trio Op.9 1884
Piano Trio Op.28 1897 *
Piano Trio Op. 45 1916
'Serrana' Piano Trio 1927
String Quartet Op.17
String Quartet Op.18
String Qiuartet in E flat major Op.39
String Quartet Op.46
Violin Sonata Op.36 *
Canta elegacio for violin and piano
Cello Sonata Op.21
Sonata-fantasia for cello and piano Op.64
Elegia for cello and piano in F sharp minor 1896 pub. by E Bevilacqua & Cia
Piano
Machiette twelve pieces. Op.2 pub. by Genesio Venturini, Florence
Six Pagine d'album Op.3 pub. by Genesio Venturini, Florence
Six piano pieces Op.4 pub. by Genesio Venturini, Florence
Il Niege (It is snowing) 1902 Op.5 pub by E Bevilacqua & Cia won the Le Figaro competition
Two Nocturnes Op.6
Six piano pieces - Berceuse, Mazurka, Tarantella, Barcarolla, Noturno, Scherzo. Op.14 pub. by Ricordi
Seven miniatures Op.16 1896 pub. by E Bevilacqua & Cia
Four Feuilles d'album - Inquietude, Chansonette, Feaux follets, Desir Ardent. Op.20
Three morceaux - Menuet, Romanza, Waltz. Op.23 pub. by Felipe Sarro
Album- Sur la Plage, L'idylle, Pierrot. Op.33 1905 pub. by E Bevilacqua & Cia
Polonaise in E major Op.34 pub. by E Bevilacqua & Cia
Album- Bebe's s'endort, Pierrot se meurt, Chauve sourris. Op.36 * both this and violin sonata are given as Op.36 by different sources?
Six variations sobre um tema de Barroso Netto
Un reve 1922
Three etudes Op.42 pub. by E Bevilacqua & Cia
Valse lenta Op.posth.
Song
Five songs words by Solone Monti pub. by Genesio Venturini 1901
Organ
Fughetta, praludium and fugue for organ 1932
Aria pub. by Maurice Senart 1914
Vocal
Magnificat for four Frauenst, a capella
Messa de Requiem
Messa for organ and orchestra
Te Deum for choir and orchestra
Opera
La Croce d'Ora 1872
Il Neo 1900
Le Fate 1902
There is a performance of Oswald's Piano Concerto Op. 10 on Youtube, in an adaptation for piano and string quartet with added double bass:
1st Mvt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fblCzvvEteA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fblCzvvEteA) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Vrcy-ZSd0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Vrcy-ZSd0)
2nd Mvt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZJZ-bsDKXI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZJZ-bsDKXI)
3rd Mvt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nX7bLenmvc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nX7bLenmvc)
Ah, well done, Ilja!
It's very beautiful. I wonder what MSS of his survive and where they are. Somewhere in South America, I suispect.
A search reveals an auction (past - it was sold to someone in March 2011) for the ms of a 1918 concertante work of his at a site called worthpoint.com, now you mention that. The andante and variations for piano and strings (and orchestra, on the page... hrm.)
Also, according to another site,
"A large number of the compositor's piano pieces remain unpublished. The original manuscripts may be found at the Music Department at the University of Sao Paulo (Universidade de São Paulo – USP)"...
From the P.Q.P.Bach website, you can download some great Oswald works including :
Symphony Op.43
Andante & Variations for Piano & Orchestra
Piano Quartet Op.26
Piano Quintet Op.18
Piano Concerto
Sonata Fantasy
Works for Cello & Piano
Various Piano Pieces
From a now defunct website, I also have his Requiem + Motets.
Alan is always warning me of the dangers of using these blogs but the treasures obtained are well worth the occasional expense of virus removals
There are also several CDs of Oswald's piano pieces available together with his Violin Sonata Op.36 on the Dynamic label and Estudio-Scherzo in Bbm for String Quartet on Chandos.
Quote from: mikehopf on Thursday 08 August 2013, 10:52
Alan is always warning me of the dangers of using these blogs but the treasures obtained are well worth the occasional expense of virus removals
Consider yourself duly re-warned!
By the way Felipe Sarro has played some works by Oswald (some of which can now also be downloaded from IMSLP.)
Sorry, Alan, but I can resist everything except temptation...
Oswald's Elegia for Orchestra is now downloadable from the PQP Bach website.
Well worth the risk!
Short but quite lovely. Thanks, Mike, for the tip. Also the Miguez Prometheu on the same program.....
Jerry
His Piano Concerto of 1890 was broadcast on radio 3 yesterday played by Artur Pizarro and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Brabbins. It was announced as his tenth piano concerto and it says no. 10 on the website but they may have a typo.
Here is the link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046cqps (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046cqps)
On Friday the same forces are playing the 1st Piano Concerto by Alfredo Napoleão (E flat minor, op31).
Here is the link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046crsv (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046crsv)
Can we assume that this is a future Hyperion RPC release?
Rob
Yes !
... wait.. .that's a -very- interesting program from this past Friday... and not just for the Napoleão. ... Thanks for mentioning it, I'll make a point of catching it before next Friday (say, now.)
Dear giles.enders, How sure are you about the concerto Op. 28? I can see no mention of it on his website http://www.oswald.com.br/site2010/catalogo1.htm There is an Andante e Variações mentioned under Piano and Orchestra. Is this another Goldmark Concerto No. 2? :D
I realize this thread has been dead for five years, but I did not know if it was worthwhile starting a new one. We are just in the process of publishing the parts to Oswald's Piano Quintet in C Major which can be heard on Youtube. In writing the cover notes, I discovered on Wikipedia that he had composed four string quartets. Unfortunately, we do not have the parts and have not been able to find them so far. However, it turns out, in our library we have an LP recording of his String Quartet No.3 in E flat Major, Op.39 which was composed in 1908 while he was living in Florence. It is on CBS 160174. We used to have a computer hooked up to an LP player with software which allowed us to copy it onto a hard drive and then make CDs. Unfortunately, that computer has died and the software only worked on Windows 2000 professional. A pity because we would have uploaded it here.
Scores and parts of his quartets and other chamber works seem to be downloadable right here. Oswald.art.br (https://oswald.art.br/musica/musica-de-camara/). I haven't tried to download them, so I don't know if there's a fee. I hope that helps some, though... Other parts of the site have other works of his and other information. Seems to be by way of an official Henrique Oswald site, maybe.
(I found a link to it from the name-authorities page of the Brazilian National Library website. Sort of like VIAF...)
Thanks Eric. We will have a look.
Oswald's Symphony is downloadable here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sinfonia-op-43-Henrique-Symphony/dp/B0039VTALW/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Sinfonia+op.+43+-+Henrique+Oswald&qid=1566057502&s=gateway&sr=8-1 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sinfonia-op-43-Henrique-Symphony/dp/B0039VTALW/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Sinfonia+op.+43+-+Henrique+Oswald&qid=1566057502&s=gateway&sr=8-1)
It can also be heard on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysR6VPMG55w
Mike Herman gives these details of the recording over at MusicWeb:
Symphony, Op. 43 (1910)
Edoardo de Guarnieri/Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira
FESTA LDR 5.016 (LP) (1960's)
I was able to determine that in 2010 a three CD set of Oswald's chamber music was issued on the Ariah Cultural label. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be available anywhere.
Details of the set here: https://www.discogs.com/release/10515508 (https://www.discogs.com/release/10515508)
Thanks Alan. We already checked there. They do not have it.
Quite. I was just posting further details of the set.
I spent ages trying to obtain this 3CD set and in the end I e-mailed Artur Huf, the violinist who set up the ArsBrasil group in 2010 which recorded the anthology. He very kindly sent me a copy. I did find, however, that two of the discs were very temperamental and in the end decided to re-record them onto blank CD's which solved the problem! I am very surprised, though, that these invaluable recordings haven't had some form of proper distribution or at least some attempt made to make them more easily obtainable on-line.