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David McGuinness - Schetky: The Indian Queen

from Late Night Extras by Concerto Caledonia

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J. G. Christoph Schetky: The Indian Queen - A favorite Strathspey Made into a Rondo for the Piano-Forte And Dedicated To Miss Wilson, Queen’s Street

Piano by Caspar Schmidt, Prague 1830, courtesy of Sally Fortino

Besides his quartets, cello sonatas, songs, arrangements of traditional tunes for the military band of the Edinburgh Volunteers, and much else, Schetky made some superior contributions to the genre of piano variations on Scots tunes. These were usually composed for unmarried wealthy young women in Edinburgh’s New Town, so that they could display their impressive technique on the city’s new pianos, which had begun to appear in music shops in 1784.

Although janissary pedals didn’t appear on British pianos at the time, the opportunity to include some Turkish percussion at the end of this piece was too good to resist. All of the additional effects at the end were controlled by just one of the piano’s six pedals.

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from Late Night Extras, released June 30, 2023

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