Faure Ballade Op19 F,maj Pno BA10841

Faurs piano works are of central importance within his compositional oeuvre. He dedicated his Ballade, composed in 1879, to his teacher Camille Saint-Sans. Structurally and in terms of its lyrical character the work breaks from the genres epic form and takes on the traits of the sonata form. In 1881 Faur arranged his Ballade for piano and orchestra and the work was premiered in this new scoring.

Drawing on the most recent discoveries and comprehensive source research, the work is presented in a scholarly-critical Urtext edition. The publication, which is based on the uvres compltes de Gabriel Faur, includes a detailed foreword and notes on performance practice.

The Editor Christophe Grabowski is a pianist and doctor of musicology who studied in Warsaw and in Paris. He edited, among other works, one volume of the uvres compltes de Gabriel Faur, two volumes of the dition Complte des uvres de Claude Debussy, and was the series editor for the new Chopin Complete Edition. In 2010, together with John Rink, he published the Annotated Catalogue of Chopins First Editions.

- Published on the basis of uvres compltes de Gabriel Faur

- Incorporates the latest research and findings regarding the sources

- Scholarly-critical Urtext edition with advice on performance practice

- Detailed foreword (Fr/Eng/Ger)

Ballade Op.19 for Piano