The voice of Lev
Tolstoy
Tolstoy and Thomas
Alva Edison met in 1908, when Edison gave to the Russian writer a gift:
one of his wax phonographs, the Ediphone. Tolstoy
became soon an enthusiastic
user of this device, and recorded several of his letters and a few
novels. We put here a couple of them, very short in time: "The wolf",
which is the vegetarian "manifesto" of the writer, and "The
force of childhood".
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The wolf |
The force of childhood |
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the voice of Tolstoy
(mp3 526 Kbyte, 11025 Hz, 16
bit,
32Kbps, Jstereo) |
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the voice of Tolstoy
(mp3 1.744 Kbyte, 11025 Hz, 16
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32Kbps, Jstereo) |
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Transcription (coming soon) |
Transcription (coming soon) |
The music of Lev
Tolstoy
Tolstoy's only known musical composition was this Waltz in F
which was written down by the Russian pianist and composer Alexander Goldenweiser after it had been played to him by the
composer in February 1906.
Lev
Tolstoy, Waltz in F. Imogen Cooper, pianoforte. Piano Stenway model
B.
(from the
"Unpublished Recordings" of "The
British library Sound archive")
Here the waltz performed by several pianists on Youtube (2018).
A
short
note, and the score
(requires the Scorch
plug-in) from http://www.nymetmusic.com
Tolstoy Waltz score in pdf: TolstojWaltz
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