beautiful!  love all these OTQ v2 vids!

Thanks for your encouragement budo.
Stay tuned!  I am constantly looking for, and finding, more forgotten, different gems to see the light of day, to make them known to the forum's listeners.
Orgtq 2 just totally blew me away with the many new exciting features!

Best wishes,

Stig

It is such a simple and beautiful piece.

https://youtu.be/mYbnjOkCqm4

Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860 – January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces and New England Idylls. Woodland Sketches includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose". In 1904 he was one of the first seven Americans honored by membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He was born in New York City and studied at the Paris Conservatory and Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt. Liszt was an admirer . He was appointed professor at Columbia University in NYC, where his task was to "create a music department." He was often stressed with his work at Columbia, ahd resigned abruptly.

He was subject to depression, which increased severely, and his final illness began when he was run over by a hansom cab in NYC in 1904. Of his final years, Lawrence Gilman, a contemporary, described: "His mind became as that of a little child..."

"To a Wild Rose" is part of "Ten Woodland Sketches," first published in 1896. It is MacDowell's perfect miniature masterpiece.

The transcription was done by Charles P. Scott

All the best, everyone

Stig