Selected Piano Works - Book One

With this first book of her piano music, Helen C. Crane (1868 - 1930) makes her 21st century debut. Her piano music gives a unique insight into her marvelous talent and reveals a heretofore unheard American strain: the unique marriage of Helen Crane's American taste and sensibilities and her German conservatory training. It is apparent upon playing and/or listening to her music that here was fertile ground for the blossoming of all manner of future American music styles, from music for the cinema to jazz and unique styles of George Gershwin and perhaps Irving Berlin. This particular book includes 4 or her Miniature Sketches (2 to 3 page recital pieces), selections from her extended work "Enchanted Garden" op.49, also "Albumblatt" (1896) and the first of her Four Sonnets for Pianoforte. An excellent sampling of the work of this American treasure.