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Expert: Pat G - 2/5/2011


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http://www.discovery-records.com/product-ST57809/Prometheus-/-Orpheus-Guillou-or...

There. That provides better information on how Liszt's Prometheus was transcribed for Organ and by whom.

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Hello, Rudy,
Thank you for both your messages! I do appreciate it. I'll see if there is a recording of the organ version on YouTube, and maybe order a copy from someone.

I should have considered Liszt, though he's not normally considered an organ composer (and since the piece was transcribed for organ, that is still the case). I have heard organ in some very interesting and unusual compositions, where I would least expect it.

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I am no longer answering questions asking me to identify music. Most music is either on YouTube, which crashes my browser, or on another site that crashes my browser. I am available for other questions.

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I have been playing piano since I was 3, and I am now 66 years old. I took formal lessons for about 11 years, and took some piano and organ performance courses in college. I also sang in the Masterworks Chorale for a number of years, and can sing anything from baritone to first soprano. We performed twice a year, usually a major choral work, ranging from requiem masses to Carmina Burana. I also attended recorder society meetings once a month. We would read compositions and perform them together. I took several children to their music lessons and rehearsals and usually stayed and watched intensely. Our children studied violin, viola, flute, guitar, clarinet, French horn, trumpet, and trombone.

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I studied piano and organ in college, and took courses in music theory. I have also taken seminars in pre-Columbian folk music with Xochimoki, as well as played a short while in a gamelan, and a balalaika orchestra, where I played autoharp.

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