anderson@uwvax.ARPA (05/03/84)
<> On the subject of 4-hands adaptations of other music -- I went to a concert by a piano duo a few years back (Nancy Arganbright and Dallas Weekley, if memory serves... faculty at some provincial campus of U. Wisc, and fine pianists). The high point of the recital was a 4-hands version of Listz's Mephisto Waltz. This as an utterly amazing work, the 2-hands version of which actually contains about 3.5 hands worth of material at points (it's one of those pieces, like the Debussy Preludes and Stravinsky's Petroushka Suite, where there are three clefs some of the time). Anyway, it came off very well. I later wrote to Arganbright and Weekley asking for a pointer to the music. They said it was Liszt's adaptation, they had found it at a Liszt library in Germany, their copy was "too faint to copy" (a lame excuse), and that I should try writing to the museum. I never got around to it, but it would certainly be nice to have.