"Concert (Cis Moll) für Pianoforte und Orchester componirt von Mrs. H. H. A. Beach. Op. 45"

Leipzig: Arthur P. Schmidt. 1900. First. Pianoforte Solostimme mit Begleitung eines zweiten Pianoforte an Stelle des Orchesters [Piano Solo score with orchestral reduction for second piano]. Upright folio.  Title; 2-87 pp.  [A. P. S. 5119]  Self-printed wrappers, bound in cardstock with cloth spine. Ownership signature of Mary L. Thoener to upper right corner of title.  Outer cardstock rather worn but score itself in very fine condition. Together with first edition printing of "Dearie, Op. 43, No. 1," a setting of a lyric by Robert Burns.  1899.  4 pp.  Arthur P. Schmidt, Leipzig.  [A. P. S. 5040]  In fine condition.

"Work on the piano concerto began in 1897 and it was clearly intended not only as a major composition, but also as a way for Beach to return to the concert platform that she missed so acutely.  Reminders of this surrounded her at the time: in 1895 her father died and her mother Clara moved in with Amy and her husband.  The tensions between these three, particularly in terms of Beach’s musical career, cannot have been easy to bear.  The first performance took place in Symphony Hall, Boston, on 7 April 1900 with the composer as soloist, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Gericke.  The two-piano score was published the same year by the firm of Arthur P Schmidt, with a dedication to the Venezuelan pianist Teresa Carreño (1853–1917), one of the greatest soloists of the age." (Hyperion Records) (21002)

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