Frey - Fourth Suite- I "Andante con moto"

First piece (or movement) from the Fourth Suite Op. 58 (1927)

Special thanks to Alfred Forkel for finding and scanning the score of this rare work.

Emil Frey (1889-1946) was one of the few notable Swiss composers of the early 20th-century. Although born in Switzerland, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Faure and Widor and later moved to Russia where his highly acclaimed Piano Trio earned him the Anton Rubinstein prize and a teaching position at the Moscow Conservatory. After the October Revolution in 1917 he joined the ranks of artists who fled the country and returned to Switzerland. There he resided and taught as a professor of the Zürich Conservatory until his death.

Frey was a prolific composer who produced compositions in nearly every genre. His harmonic language and piano-writing are steeped in late Romanticism, showing influences of Scriabin and Franck. His contrapuntal textures and chromatic part-writing owe much to Reger and Busoni as well.

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• scriabin
• reger
• busoni
• franck
• medtner
• hindemith

[Haeronthegreat]

Some of this reminds me of Scriabin - languid, dark.