Ballade for Violoncello and Piano. [Score and violoncello part]
- SIGNED
- [?Self-published], 1969
[?Self-published], 1969. Two volumes. Folio. Plain black spiral-bound boards. Score: 20 pp. Photographic reproduction of manuscript (most probably autograph) score notated on 12-stave printed music paper. Violoncello: 13, [i] (blank) pp., cut and pasted from the score and newly reproduced by Circle Blue Print Co., New York. Note to caption title: "commissioned by Robert Sylvester." Credits to upper right corner of first page: "Michael Riesman 1969." Note to lower right corner of last page of music: "W. Bratteboro, Vt. Sept. 1969."
Violoncello part marked up throughout, in two layers: beat count in red ink; fingering, bowing and articulation in pencil.
Browned at edges. Names of Michel Riesman and Robert Sylvester erased from first page of score, leaving small hole; names later restored in black ink. Scarce. WorldCat (1 copy of the score only, at the Juilliard School).
Riesman graduated from Mannes College in 1967 and obtained a PhD from Harvard in 1972, where he studied composition with Leon Kirchner, Roger Sessions, and Earl Kim. He has been a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble since 1974, arguably its most important one. Besides his work for Glass as a keyboardist, conductor, and arranger, Riesman has continued to compose sporadically, but his music remains unpublished. A few of his student compositions, including his graduation pieces, can be accessed at Harvard University and the Juilliard School.
Violoncello part marked up throughout, in two layers: beat count in red ink; fingering, bowing and articulation in pencil.
Browned at edges. Names of Michel Riesman and Robert Sylvester erased from first page of score, leaving small hole; names later restored in black ink. Scarce. WorldCat (1 copy of the score only, at the Juilliard School).
Riesman graduated from Mannes College in 1967 and obtained a PhD from Harvard in 1972, where he studied composition with Leon Kirchner, Roger Sessions, and Earl Kim. He has been a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble since 1974, arguably its most important one. Besides his work for Glass as a keyboardist, conductor, and arranger, Riesman has continued to compose sporadically, but his music remains unpublished. A few of his student compositions, including his graduation pieces, can be accessed at Harvard University and the Juilliard School.