The German-American composer Otto Dresel (1826–90) was best known in his lifetime as a composer of lieder and for his activity as an outstanding accompanist for singers and chamber ensembles. This volume contains all ten of his original piano works, three pieces for organ, and a representative selection of his arrangements and transcriptions for solo piano (of works by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Robert Franz). While the influence of his teachers, Mendelssohn and Schumann, is best appreciated through his songs and chamber works, his piano transcriptions show as well the impact of his early studies with Liszt and open a new window on his role as an important piano teacher and recitalist in mid-nineteenth-century America.

Contents

Works for Piano

Polka

Elfentanz

Theme and Variations: Original Version

Theme and Variations: Revised Version

Vier Klavierstücke, Op. 5

No. 1. Schlummerlied

No. 2. Praeludium

No. 3. Phantasiestück

No. 4. Scherzino

Reverie

Liedchen ohne Worte

Albumblatt (Geburtstagmarsch)

Works for Organ

Prelude

Schlummerlied

Voluntary

Selected Arrangements for Piano

Six Two-part Songs Composed by Mendelssohn

I Would that My Love

The Passage Bird’s Farewell

Greeting

Autumn Song

O Wert Thou in the Cold Blast

The Maybells and the Flowers

Twelve Songs by Robert Franz

Darling Is Here!

May Song

Forth from the Depths of Sadness

Song of the Woods

The Water Lily

What Ails this Heart of Mine?

Evening

Maiden with the Rosy Lips

O Welcome, Fair Wood

Evening Stillness

He Is Come in Storm and Rain

The Woods

Barcarolle: [Auf dem Wasser zu singen] by Franz Schubert

Gavotte from J. S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite in D Major, BWV 1068

Alla danza tedesca from Beethoven’s String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130