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Drie Preludes

By Hans Franco Mendes

genre
Chamber music
instrumentation
Piano (pf)
year
1921
status
published score
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dedication

Prof. Carl Friedberg

Details

Prelude I - Vivace
Prelude II - Lento di molto
Prelude III - Allegro assai

Alsbach & Co Amsterdam - To Prof. Carl Friedberg

Images

Drie preludes.jpg
Drie preludes.jpg

About Hans Franco-Mendes

(12/15/1890 - 04/27/1951)
Hans Franco-Mendes

Hans Franco Mendes studied piano and composition in Cologn and performed throughout the Netherlands and Germany and in Paris. He composed mainly for piano and was director of the Leiden Music School. He survived Theresienstadt and was repatriated via Switzerland but never fully recovered from the hardships in captivity.

by Carine Alders