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Fine job, Rodney, with Mont Alto for the new score for The Mark of Zorro --heard it last night on TCM. IMHO the best score I've heard with that feature.

I'm working on reviewing a new disc on the Phoenix Edition label, "Erwin Schulhoff: Solo Piano Works" by pianist Margarete Babinsky. Although Schulhoff is recognized as a modernist (and, unfortunately, as a concentration camp victim) I think he was also a silent movie pianist. Some of the earlier pieces included, as his "Five Grotesques Op. 21" and "Five Burlesques" Op. 23 bear an obvious connection to silent movie pianism and, as such, may be of interest to you.

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What an interesting composer! Thanks for the tip. There are some excerpts from his string quartets on youtube. What year are the burlesques and grotesques from? The silent era hung on slightly longer in Germany; I've got a few pieces published for film orchestras as late as 1929. The American publishers had given up by then.

And thanks for your nice comments on the score!

What an interesting composer! Thanks for the tip. There are some excerpts from his string quartets on youtube. What year are the burlesques and grotesques from? The silent era hung on slightly longer in Germany; I've got a few pieces published for film orchestras as late as 1929. The American publishers had given up by then.

And thanks for your nice comments on the score!

You're very welcome.

The years between 1917 and 1919 are sometimes called Schulhoff's "esque" years, since so many of his works from that time have titles that end in that suffix. The "Grostesques" are from 1917 and the "Burlesques" from 1918.

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