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<font size="3">I've wondered the same myself. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">I have the exact same set from an old German collection of piano classics called
</span><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Die Welt der Töne</span></u><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> umfassend die Meisterschöpfungen von mehr als drei Jahrhunderten für Lernende und Fachmusiker und zur
Unterhaltung</span></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">, edited and collected by "Prof. E. Humperdinck" (1854-1921) and "Direktor Max Battke" (1863-1916).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The "12 kleine Stücke" are in vol. 5, pp. 3-15, along with 9 Haydn piano sonatas (pp. 16-109).<span style="mso-spacerun:
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</span>There is no copyright date in any of the 12 or so various volumes that I have; there were at least up to 30 volumes, according to Worldcat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Volume 1 is "Alte Meister," and vol. 30 is original compositions for 4 hands (I don't have this one so I don't know its contents).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>In between are works by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Worldcat says copyright 1900-1909?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> [sic].</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>My copies came from my grandmother (b. 1893), whose parents both came from Germany in the 1880s. The set was published by Music-Bücherei Weissenturn, Berlin, with the engraving and printing from Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">This particular collection has always amused me because prominently displayed on the front cover of each volume under the publisher’s name are pictures of five composers: Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms,
R. Strauss, and . . . . E. Humperdinck!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">All best,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Ellon Carpenter</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Arizona State University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Ellon.Carpenter@ASU.Edu</span></p>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF663146"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> smt-talk-bounces@lists.societymusictheory.org [smt-talk-bounces@lists.societymusictheory.org] on behalf of Steven Reale [smreale@ysu.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 09, 2012 11:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Smt-talk] Haydn, 12 Easy Pieces<br>
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<div>Dear collective wisdom:<br>
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Does anyone have any knowledge or insight into the genesis of the short piano arrangements of Haydn excerpts collected and titled "12 Easy Pieces" by the Russian publishing house
<i>Muzgiz</i>? The imslp page for the pieces is here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://imslp.org/wiki/12_Easy_Pieces_(Haydn,_Joseph)" target="_blank">
http://imslp.org/wiki/12_Easy_Pieces_(Haydn,_Joseph)</a><br>
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In particular, I'd be interested to know who made these arrangements and for what purposes (I assume they were pedagogical).<br>
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All best,<br>
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Steven Reale<br>
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Assistant Professor of Music
Dana School of Music
Youngstown State University</pre>
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