Béla Kéler | Hungarian Melody (4 hands)

Описание: Béla Kéler (1820 – 1882) was a Hungarian composer of romantic music period and orchestral conductor. Béla Kéler was born as Albert Paul Keler (Adalbert Paul von Keler). He is also known in Hungarian as Kéler Béla.

His best known piece Erinnerung an Bartfeld is written on the melodies of typical local folk songs of Šariš. This piece was (partly) mistakenly rewritten by Johannes Brahms as Hungarian Dance No. 5 because Brahms thought it was a folk song, not an original work.

Anton Bruckner copied the instrumentation and form (but not the harmony) of Kéler's Mazzuchelli-Marsch (also called Apollo-Marsch) exactly for his own March in E-flat major.
(The Apollo Marsch was later mistaken for a work of Bruckner's).

Kéler was very popular as a composer of orchestral and dance music, and was looked upon as one of the best of writers of violin solos. His overtures and compositions for small orchestra were long popular in the United States and England.

The Carpathians (1854) is the most serious and at the same time the most extensive work by Béla Kéler.

Although the title of the almost an hour-long composition refers to the Carpathian Mountains, the composer was exclusively inspired by the surroundings of the High Tatras, which is near his birthplace. Parts include "Overture", "Introduction", and five musical pictures, in the order "The Lomnica Peak" (Lomnický štít), "The Poprad Lake" (Popradské pleso), "The Iron Hammers", "The Hunt", "The Arrival" and "Life in the Carpathian Spa". It turns out that idyllic music pictures the Carpathians is the first work of program music to be inspired to Slovak natural beauties and everyday life in their surroundings. The digital transcription of the work, in the Petrucci Music Library, was supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council.