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I can answer your question, Eric. Newberry has only a 2-piano score.

Oh, me too. It's a gorgeous work.

RISM.info has 313 entries (not necessarily all different works, of course) under Aloys Schmitt, by the way.

Correct, Eric. But not all of them relate to the Aloys Schmitt we are discussing here. He has 272 entries. As you say, a useful resource nonetheless.

I echo Alan's comment. Terrific music - very much my cup of tea. Thank you so much. I look forward to hearing the other movements in due course.

Yes, I know all of those recordings, but none are commercial and most are in poor sound. Most are difficult to find. With the exception of the Lemba PCs and Zielke's Kaun. All would benefit from good modern recordings.

[STANLEY WILSON]

Ignaz Brull:             Rhapsodie, Op. 65 (Fleisher)
                                Concertstuck, WoO. [MS in University of Michigan Library (scans in my own collection), p. 4 missing. New Edition, ed. & completed by
                                Michael Laus – available from Michael Laus, University of Malta]
Otis Bardwell Boise:    Piano Concerto in G minor (modern critical edition of Full Score by James Dobes Reitzell "The 1st Piano Concerto by an American?..." can be ordered from Pro-Quest;  MS in Johns Hopkins Library, Univ. of Baltimore.
Ottokar Novacek:   Concerto Eroica, Op. 8 (Fleisher)
Frank Limbert:      Concertstuck in C sharp minor (Fleisher)
Otto Neitzel:    Piano Concerto Op. 26 (1900) - Fleisher
Hugo Kaun:    Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 50 – score & parts in Fleisher
              Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115 – score & parts in Fleisher
Charles Mayer:      Concerto Symphonique, Op. 89 – score & parts in Fleisher
                        Grand Concerto for piano & orchestra, Op. 70 – score & parts in Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Arthur Hinton: Piano Concerto in D minor – score & parts in the possession of American pianist, Dan Franklin Smith (http://www.danfranklinsmith.com/) who edited it. Also published Full Score (Fischer, 1920) in Guildhall School of Music & Drama, UK. Published 2-piano score in RCM, RAM, Oxford (Bodleian), Trinity College Dublin and BL.

Cecil Coles: Piano Concerto (MS Full Score in National Library of Scotland)
Percy Sherwood: Piano Concerto No. 1 (MS performance material in Bodleian Library, Oxford).
Frank Merrick: 2 piano concertos (MS performance materials in University of Bristol Library).

STANLEY WILSON
English composer (1899-1953) who received Carnegie United Kingdom Trust award in 1928 for his "Skye" Symphony (pub. Stainer & Bell); wrote in a Romantic style.  Orchestral MSS in RCM Collection.
Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 46 (1929)
Piano Concerto No. 2 (1937)
Piano Concerto in modo classico (1952)
MS full scores of the above at RCM.

Artur Lemba: 5 concertos (all MSS and some performance material at Estonian Music Information Center)
Victor-Alphonse Duvernoy: Fantaisie Symphonique for piano & orchestra (Fleisher)
Kreutzer, Leon: Piano Concerto (1863) – (IMSLP - Full Score)

That should do to be going on with.

A great pity - but well researched. At least now we know.

So would I.

It's wonderful light music - quite delicious. Herz just couldn't be solemn. Like all his music - and especially his piano concertos - it just makes me smile. Not to be taken seriously for ONE MINUTE!!!

Indeed. Hence my response.

Why not? He was writing for at least part of his life in the Romantic period. It depends on what his music sounds like. Aloys Schmitt's first 3 piano concertos were written before 1824 but we think of Schmitt as a "Romantic" composer. His PCs 1 & 2 were recorded by Hyperion in the RPC series.
I must say, I think music staff at University of Indiana are behaving very gracelessly, and not in the spirit of an academic institution. Wilfully obstructing the legitimate pursuit of musical research. What utter prats!

I am a reader at BL but I don't know when I will be going there next. It won't be in Yorkshire - it will be in London. One could probably get it copied, but at considerable expense - the BL is not cheap (it used to be reasonable, but not any more!). I will inquire when next I am there.

Hurray!

I don't suppose we know where his mss. are. Neither the symphony nor the concertos appear to have been published.

Somewhere I have a photocopy of the score and - I think - the parts of Learmont Drysdale's Tam O'Shanter overture. I will try to locate it.