Max Reger
9 Bunte Blatter for Piano, Op. 36Variations and Fugue on a theme by Telemann for Piano, Op. 134
Perhaps due to status as both a pianist and organist, his style is contrapuntally dense. He therefore wrote works in fugues or in variation form. The harmony in his music remains mostly tonal but at times the melodic lines sound atonal due to rapid modulations.Ideas -
From Bach: counterpoint
From Beethoven and Brahms: absolute music
From Liszt and Wagner: free modulation
Saint-Saens:6 etudes, op. 111Album op. 72 for pianoRhapsodie d'Auvergne, Op. 73Variations on a theme by Beethoven, Op. 35
Have never heard of these pieces, I enjoyed listening to them. Saint-Saens’s pieces have French characteristics: the music is often considered refined and never excessive. Moreover, most of them have elegant melodic lines and clean-cut expression as opposed to a great deal of rubatos of the German School.
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