The Alexander Siloti Collection

Description

This collection contains 40 original transciptions and arrangements from Bach, Glück, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Lyadov, Strauss, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff.

One of the least known of the great Russian pianists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Alexander Siloti was also one of the most influential and progressive. As a concert promoter, he introduced the music of dozens of composers to the Russian public in the famous Siloti Concerts of 1903-1917, including Albéniz, Debussy, de Falla, Delius, Elgar, Enesco, Mahler and Schoenberg. A student of Liszt (and one of the teachers of Rachmaninoff), Siloti is a central figure in the development of the great age of the piano virtuoso. As with many of his colleagues, transcribing and arranging existing music for the piano was a major part of Siloti's activity, and since he made no recordings, his published transcriptions are one of the few existing keys we have to his musical taste and philosophy.