There is great misunderstanding today about the art of piano transcriptions.
The organist had said that if there was an organ, or even a piano transcription of the music, he would play it.
He also made piano transcriptions of the work of other composers, a particularly common practice of the time.
Many 19th-century listeners were able to read and play music, some even learning the orchestral repertory through piano transcriptions.
Bach wrote a piano transcription for the Adagio which has gained popularity today.
The singers also, unusually, sang the lines of the piano transcription or joined, in unison, on individual vocal parts.
To be fair, only a fraction of her Saturday program consisted of piano transcriptions.
I took the liberty of making a piano transcription.
Liszt also made piano transcriptions of the first two volumes.
The organ's bass line, played on the foot pedals, must be accounted for in the piano transcriptions.
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