SIDE COMMENT: “Bortkiewicz’s musical take on the mythical will-o’-the-wisp. Maybe.“ No. 7 “Le mystérieux inconnu“ (“The mysterious stranger“) in G minor, from 12 Etudes Nouvelles, Op. 29, by Ukrianian composer Sergei Bortkiewicz. (dedicated to Hugo van Dalen) (etudes set composed 1924) Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) was a Romantic composer and pianist. Bortkiewicz’s piano style was very much based on Liszt and Chopin, nurtured by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, early Scriabin, Wagner and Russian folklore. He
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