Who is the author of the piano arrangement of Manuel de Falla's Ritual Fire Dance?
In "My young years" Rubinstein claims that he made his own arrangement .
"Could you lend me the score of this dance?", I asked the composer. "I would love to arrange it for the piano and play it in a concert". He laughed. "Of course I will let you have it", he said, "but I doubt if it would make any effect" .
Harvey Sachs in Rubinstein's biography quotes Rubinstein:
I still now have to live to a great extent of the Ritual Fire Dance, which I made into a piano piece.
I said to Falla, who was a friend of mine, "This is a good piano piece". He said, "Nonsense". Well, I arranged it.
The book included in "Rubinstein The Complete Album Collection" also credits Rubinstein as the author of Fire Dance arrangement.
But recently I read that author of the piano arrangement is Manuel De Falla himself.
Ritual Fire Dance. One of dances in Falla's ballet El Amor Brujo popularized in composer's pf. arr. and played with exceptional brilliance by Arthur Rubinstein. Also arr. for other instr., eg. vc.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-RitualFireDance.html
Also on IMSLP Manuel the Falla is mentioned as the author.
http://imslp.org/wiki/El_amor_brujo_(Falla,_Manuel_de)
Anybody knows which version is true? Or are these two different arrangements?
Also, which arrangement did Georges Cziffra play? Or was it his own?
In "My young years" Rubinstein claims that he made his own arrangement .
"Could you lend me the score of this dance?", I asked the composer. "I would love to arrange it for the piano and play it in a concert". He laughed. "Of course I will let you have it", he said, "but I doubt if it would make any effect" .
Harvey Sachs in Rubinstein's biography quotes Rubinstein:
I still now have to live to a great extent of the Ritual Fire Dance, which I made into a piano piece.
I said to Falla, who was a friend of mine, "This is a good piano piece". He said, "Nonsense". Well, I arranged it.
The book included in "Rubinstein The Complete Album Collection" also credits Rubinstein as the author of Fire Dance arrangement.
But recently I read that author of the piano arrangement is Manuel De Falla himself.
Ritual Fire Dance. One of dances in Falla's ballet El Amor Brujo popularized in composer's pf. arr. and played with exceptional brilliance by Arthur Rubinstein. Also arr. for other instr., eg. vc.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-RitualFireDance.html
Also on IMSLP Manuel the Falla is mentioned as the author.
http://imslp.org/wiki/El_amor_brujo_(Falla,_Manuel_de)
Anybody knows which version is true? Or are these two different arrangements?
Also, which arrangement did Georges Cziffra play? Or was it his own?