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partial manuscript list
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chromatische Fantasie und Fugue, Invention No.14
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas Op.13,90,101,106,109,111
Johannes Brahms: Ballade in G Minor Op.118 No.3, Intermezzo in A Major Op.118 No.2, Intermezzo in B-flat Minor Op.117 No.2, Rhapsody in E-flat Major Op.119 No.4
Frederic Chopin: Ballade Op.23; Etudes Op.10 Nos.1,3,12; Etudes Op.25 Nos.1,8,9; Fantasy in F Minor Op.49; Mazurkas Op.17 No.4, Op.41 No.1; Nocturnes Op.48 No.1, Op.55 No.1, Op.62 No.1, Op.62 No.2; Polonaise Op.40 No.1; Preludes Op.28 Nos.1,2,4,7,9,10,11,12,15,16,17,20,21,22; Scherzo Op.39; Waltzes Op.42, Op.64 No.3
Claude Debussy: Claire de Lune, Valse Romantique, Reflets dans l'eau, La Cathedrale Engloutie
Theodor Leschetizky: Intermezzo in Octaves Op.44 No.1
Ferenc Liszt: Ab Irato: Grande Etude de Perfectionement, Angelus: Priere aux anges gardiens, Apres une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata, Aux cypres de la Villa d'Este I: Threnodie, Aux cypres de la Villa d'Este II: Threnodie, Ballade No.2 in B Minor, Chapelle de Guillaume Tell, Chasse-Neige, Consolations Nos. 2 3 and 4, Eglogue, Feux Follets, Funerailles, Gongoliera, Grand Fantasie de Bravoure sur la Clochette de Paganini, Harmonies du Soir, Hungarian Rhapsody No.6, Il pensieroso, Invocation, Les closhes de Geneve: Nocturne, Les jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este, Marche funebre, Mazeppa, Mephisto Waltz No.1, Orage, Reminiscences de Don Juan, Reminiscences de Norma, Rhapsodie Espagnole, Ricordanza, Sancta Dorothea, Sonata in B Minor, Sonetto 47 del Petrarca, Sonetto 104 del Petrarca, Sonetto 123 del Petrarca, Sposalizio, Sunt lacrymae rerum: En mode hongrois, Sursum corda, Tarantella, Trois Etudes de Concert, Vallee d'Obermann, Wilde Jagd
Felix Mendelssohn: Chants sans paroles Op.38 No.6 and Op.53 No.4
Ignace Jan Paderewski: Legend No.1, Minuet in G
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude Op.23 No.5
Joachim Raff: Etude Melodique No. 1
Anton Rubinstein: Etude Op.23 No.2
Schubert-Liszt: Erlkonig, Fruhlingsglaube, Sey Mir Gegrusst
Robert Schumann: Waldenszenen Op.82
Christian Sinding: Rustling of Spring
Interests
advanced mathematics; chess; literature and philosophy; the sciences; listening to historical opera and piano recordings; collecting recordings of Maria Callas; collecting recordings of Franco Corelli; collecting out-of-print piano scores; historical studies; economics studies; studies related to music composition; transcription for orchestra of piano repertoire (including Liszt's Funerailles); transcription for piano of orchestral, chamber music and operatic repertoire; military tactics and strategy
Interests Detailed
archaeology
Heinrich Schliemann
art and architecture
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, William Bouguereau, Edward Burne Jones, Antoni Gaudi, Rene Lalique, Lord Frederick Leighton, Alphonse Mucha, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John William Waterhouse
music (20th century and explorative)
George Antheil, Ferruccio Busoni, Harry Partch, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Edgar Varese
scientists
Niels Bohr, Arthur Compton, Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, Sir Fred Hoyle, J. Allen Hynek, James Joule, Heinrich Lenz, James Clerk Maxwell, Max Planck, Ian Stevenson and Jim Tucker (University of Virginia, Division of Perceptual Studies), Thomas Szasz, Nikola Tesla, Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe
sciences
mechanics, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, relativity theory, superstring theory, chemistry, mineralogy, entomology
poets, playwrights, novelists, aphorists
Edward Albee, Dante Alighieri, Matthew Arnold, Ramon Perez de Ayala, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Cioran, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, Sidney Keyes, Sidney Lanier, D.H. Lawrence, Christopher Marlowe, Martial, Edgar Lee Masters, Henry Louis Mencken, George Meredith, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Moliere, Sextus Propertius, Ranier Maria Rilke, Romain Rolland, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Burns Singer, Edmund Spenser, Algeron Charles Swinburne, Rabindranath Tagore, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William M. Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, William Wordsworth, Thomas Wolfe, Stefan Zweig
historical personages
T.E. Lawrence, Horace Liveright
philosophers, economists, logicians, aestheticians and mathematicians
Aristotle, Alfred Jules Ayer, Ravi Batra, Henri Bergson, George Berkeley, Allan Bloom, Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, Edmund Burke, Georg Cantor, Rudolf Carnap, August Comte, Rene Descartes, Jacques Ellul, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sextus Empiricus, Friedrich Engels, Desiderus Erasmus, Paul Erdos, Euclid, Leonhard Euler, Ludwig Feuerbach, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Gottlob Frege, Milton Friedman, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ortega y Gasset, Kurt Godel, Francesco Guicciardini, Friedrich Hayek, Georg Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Thomas Hobbes, Sidney Hook, David Hume, William James, Immanuel Kant, John Maynard Keynes, Soren Kierkegaard, John Locke, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Malthus, Karl Marx, Carl Menger, John Stuart Mill, Ludwig von Mises, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Montesquieu, George Edward Moore, Friedrich Nietzsche, Peter Demianovich Ouspensky, Blaise Pascal, Walter Pater, Stephen Pepper, Plato, Karl Popper, Srinivasa Ramanujan, George Reisman, David Ricardo, Bernhard Riemann, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ruskin, Bertrand Russell, Henri de Saint-Simon, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Baptiste Say, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ernst Friedrich Schleiermacher, Joseph Schumpeter, Albert Schweitzer, Adam Smith, Socrates, Baruch Spinoza, Alfred Tarski, Alexis de Tocqueville, Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Thorstein Veblen, Max Weber, Alfred North Whitehead, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Xenophon
cinema and cinematography
Andrei Tarkovsky, Bela Tarr, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Giuseppe Tornatore, David Lean, Federico Fellini, W.C. Fields, Charles Chaplin (or, Charlie Chaplin), David Lynch, Werner Herzog, Jean Vigo, Rene Clair and Peter Weir
films
Andrei Rublev (1966), Cinema Paradiso (1989), City Lights (1931), Entr'acte (1924), Eraserhead (1977), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Gallipoli (1981), Gone With The Wind (1939), L'Atalante (1934), La Beaute du Diable (1950), La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928), Malena (2000), Mirror (1975), Modern Times (1936), My Little Chickadee (1940), International House (1933), Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941), Satantango (1994), Solaris (1972 [Tarkovsky version]), Nostalgia (1983), Sophie's Choice (1982), Stalker (1979), Sunnyside (1919), The Gold Rush (1925), The Great Dictator (1940), The Legend of 1900 (1998), The Sacrifice (1986), The Star Maker (1995), The Steamroller and the Violin (1960), Vredens Dag (1943)
photography
Julia Margaret Cameron, John Muir Wood
Michael Sayers' Myspace Groups
pianists
Great Pianists
The Pianists' Workshop
pianist-composers
Eugen d'Albert
Charles-Valentin Alkan
George Antheil
Emile Blanchet
Sergei Bortkiewicz
Ferruccio Busoni
Erno von Dohnanyi
Leopold Godowsky
Edvard Grieg
Theodor Leschetizky
Ferenc Liszt
Nikolai Medtner
Ervin Nyiregyhazi
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Selim Palmgren
Joachim Raff
Maurice Ravel
Max Reger
Anton Rubinstein
Camille Saint-Saens
Robert Schumann
Alexander Scriabin
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
Carl Maria von Weber
opera composers
Vincenzo Bellini
Georges Bizet
Gaetano Donizetti
Umberto Giordano
Charles Gounod
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Pietro Mascagni
Saverio Mercadante
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Puccini
Gioachino Rossini
Giuseppe Verdi
composers who use non-standard intervals
Harry Partch
conductors
Wilhelm Furtwangler
opera singers
Franco Corelli
archaeology
Heinrich Schliemann
photographers
Julia Margaret Cameron
painters
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
film
Hedy Lamarr
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky
Bela Tarr
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