The entries for our February 2017 Music Contest, in which Stone Soup readers recorded their performances of Anna Steiger’s childhood composition La Valse des Fleurs (Flower Walz), were so good we decided to choose three winners instead of just one. Each of them receive the prize of a $15.00 Amazon gift certificate, with our congratulations. You can see and hear all of their performances here. Jahanara Akhund, 12, Huntington, New York [youtube url=”https://youtu.be/6bMWtmcl5Kg” autoplay=”no”] Talia Finckel, 11, New York, New York [youtube url=”https://youtu.be/ac30VIcYi5o” autoplay=”no”] Charles Gibb, 8, Arlington, Virginia [youtube url=”https://youtu.be/5_xKivBthM0″ autoplay=”no”]
young composer
Thief in the Night
This lovely piano piece is written by Julius Ugo, age 11. Julius lives in Toronto, Canada.
Advanced piano players! Hard music by young composers.
Frederick Ouseley (1825-1889) was a British musician and composer. He specialized in church music. He started writing music when he was three — his sister transcribed those first pieces. A couple hundred pages of early manuscripts exist and I am hopeful that I can get a copy of them. They are at the Bodleian in Oxford, UK. Here is a PDF of Frederick Ouseley’s March, 1883, written when he was six. And here is a PDF of other early pieces by Ouseley. We would love to publish a recording of this music. If you play the piano and can play the piece — age is not an issue in this case — then please do and send it us. You can upload it at our normal submission location. Use the category for young musicians. Adults are welcome to record. This call for recordings will be left up until we have one.
