Joseph Rummel: "Eilende Wolken, Segler der Lüfte"

The composer and pianist Joseph Rummel (1818-80) was a member of a German family of musicians - his father, Christian was a composer and conductor, and his grandson Walter was a well-known trasncriber for piano of works by Bach, Liszt and others. This piece comes from a set of three 'Songs without words', all of which are transcriptions of harp works by Charles
Oberthür (1819-95), a Munich-born harpist and composer who spent his later years in London, where he taught harp at the Royal Academy of Music(see http://www.corno.de/english/charles_oberthuer.htm for more information and a photo). The title (translated as "Wand'ring Clouds Sail Through the Air") is a quotation from a soliloquy in Schiller's "Maria Stuart", and the American composer Amy Beach wrote a concert aria on this text.
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[PSearPianist]

@pianodoir Thanks for the info!

[pianodoir]

@PSearPianist You can hear a selection of these W.Rummel transcriptions on Nóta's YouTube page, played by Jonathan Plowright, who has recorded them for Hyperion.

[PSearPianist]

Merci pour votre commentaire gentil. Je suis heureux que vous ayez apprécié mon choix de répertoire. Il y a tant de musique de piano dans le monde et c'est une honte que la plupart des pianistes travaillent une sélection si limitée de morceaux.

[CZARDASMACABRE]

J'aime beaucoup votre répertoire! Je découvre beaucou grâce à vos choix, votre très beau jeu. Merci.

[PSearPianist]

It was his grandson who did the Bach transcriptions. I will have a look at them, but from memory they are rather heavily scored for modern tastes in baroque.

[wolkowy1]

Beautiful! He caught the essence of harp's playing. I hope to hear one of his Bach's transcripions by you, as well.