Piano Music

Three Short Sketches for Piano

Artist (Composed By): 
Oetting, William H.
1902

The autograph manuscript in the William Oetting Collection is dated August 1902. The composer later arranged the last movement for organ.

I. Elysian Fields

II. Barcarolle

III. Meditation

Two Sonatinas, op. 16

Artist (Composed By): 
Foerster, Adolph M. (Martin)
1885

Adolph M. Foerster’s Two Sonatinas, for piano, were published by W. F. Shaw in Philadelphia in 1885. The manuscripts are in the composer’s hand.

Village Bells Polka

Artist (Composed By): 
Foster, Stephen C. (Collins)
1850

“Village Bells Polka” was entered for copyright deposit on October 15, 1850, by F. D. Benteen of Baltimore.

According to Evelyn Foster Mornweck’s The Chronicles of Stephen Foster’s Family:

Waking of Spring

Artist (Composed By): 
Pace, Charles H. (Henry)
1958

This piece originally had a text by Charles H. Pace and Benjamin F. Smith, but Pace later removed the text to turn it into a piece for solo piano. The negative photographs reveal how Pace cropped out the lyrics of the original and made new printing plates of just the piano music. 

William H. Oetting Collection

William H. Oetting was an organist, composer, and educator.

Zitterbart, Fidelis, Jr.

Date of Birth: 
April 9, 1845
Date of Death: 
August 30, 1915

Fidelis Zitterbart was born April 9, 1845 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Fidelis Sr. and Frederica Zitterbart.

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