2. Presto.
3. Andantino and Allegretto.
4. Intermezzo.
5. Rhapsody.
6. Fugue.
The first public performance of this suite was secured by Liszt, whom MacDowell had interviewed and who was entrusted with the making up of the programmes of the General Society of German Musicians at that time. It was on Liszt's recommendation, too, that this suite and its successor, the Second Modern Suite for Pianoforte, Op. 14, were published by Breitkopf and Härtel at Leipzig. The First Modern Suite is of comparatively little importance to-day as music, but it is well written and interesting as an early work by MacDowell. Some significance may be attached to the fact that we find two movements of the suite bearing quotations showing their source of inspiration and suggesting their poetic content. Suggestive titles and verses are an outstanding feature of all MacDowell's later and finest works. Two movements of the suite were first heard in London in March, 1885, at a concert composed of American music.
OPUS 11 AND OPUS 12. FIVE SONGS, FOR VOICE AND PIANOFORTE.
First Published, 1883 (C.F. Kahnt Nachfolger. British Empire—Elkin & Co.).
1. My Love and I (Op. 11, No. 1).
2. You Love Me Not! (Op. 11, No. 2).