Humoresque Fantastique
by Garth Edmundson, reprint from J Fischer & Bro, 1935
This is a new printing of the original edition on sturdy, acid-free paper. Edmundson’s light and lyrical caprice known also as “Elfin Dance” is a depiction of a merry band of elves. Play it to lighten your concert or for a surprising and happy encore. 12 pages. Highest quality guaranteed. Size of music is 12.5" x 9.5". $8.00.
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Garth Edmundson Garth C Edmundson (1892-1971) was born on April 11, 1892, in Prospect, Pennsylvania. He studied music with Harvey Gaul in Pittsburgh, Lynnwood Farnam in New York, Joseph Bonnet in Paris, and Isador Phillipp at the Paris Conservatory. After serving several churches in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, he was organist-director from 1945 until 1968 at First Presbyterian Church in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree in 1957 by Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, where he had taught for a year.
The program for Humoreque Fantastique: “This highly imaginative composition opens with softly muted horns and flutes, as though announcing the entrance of a merry band of elves. After we hear their dance and the playing of their harps, a hymn is heard in the distance. Then follows a return to their dance as they vanish back into the enchanted forest.” Moderately easy.