Title: Hymne National de L'u.R. S.S. Arrange Pour le Piano Par Marcelle Mercenier
Description: Bruxelles: Dogilbert, 1944. 1944. Bruxelles: Dogilbert, 1944. 1944. Very good. - Quarto, softcover, self-wraps. 4 & [1] pages, including a cover page titled in black with an orange vignette. Includes the score for Aleksandr Alexandrov's music arranged for the piano by Marcelle Mercenier, plus a smaller additional leaf with a French translation of Serguei Mikhalkov's lyrics mounted with tape at the rear. The edges are darkened and there is minor creasing with a tiny chip to the bottom edge. Very good.
Originally composed by Aleksandr Alexandrov as the Bolshevik party hymn, Stalin chose this composition to replace "L'Internationale" as the Soviet national anthem in 1944 and commissioned Serguei Mikhalkov to write new lyrics to accompany the music. This score arranged for the piano by Marcelle Mercenier and a French translation of the lyrics was published for "Les Amities Belgo-Sovietiques" to honor the friendship between Belgium and the Soviet Union in the waning years of the war.
The classical pianist Marcelle Mercenier (1920-1996) was as comfortable in interpreting the traditional repertoire as she was with modern music. She took on works by Bartok, Poulenc, Boulez, Webern, Schenberg and Stockhausen with as much confidence as she did those of Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart and Schumann, sometimes inventing new complicated fingering to give just the right feel to the musical phrases. She was one of the original members of the "Seminaire des Arts" group formed in Brussels in August of 1944 and, in 1947, performed Boulez's first twelve-tone serial work, the "Sonatine" for flute & piano. She loved variety, enjoyed Jazz, and sought to pass on her passion to the students she taught in later years.
RARE. Very good .
Keywords: MUSIC; PIANIST; HISTORY; POLITICS; SOVIET UNION; HYMNE NATIONAL DE L'U.R.S.S.; USSR; RUSSIAN; RUSSIA; BELGIUM; WORLD WAR TWO; ARRANGE POUR LE PIANO PAR MARCELLE MERCENIER; PIANO; MUSIC SCORE; LYRICS; LES AMITIES BELGO-SOVIETIQUES; 1944; ALEKSANDR ALEX
- Book number: 27602
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