A piano arranger with diverse interests, Stradal arranged music from Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Buxtehude, Liszt, Mozart, Paganini, Purcell, Reubke, Strauss, Wagner and Vivaldi.
A student of Anton Bruckner, he made solo piano arrangements of that composer's symphonies 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8. His pianistic credentials included studies with both Theodor Leschetizky and Franz Liszt, with whom he studied from late 1884, appearing in the latter's master classes in Weimar, Rome, and Pest, where he played some of Liszt's most difficult works. He arranged Liszt's 13 Symphonic Poems. He received the Czechoslovak State Award in 1928.
Selected works (solo piano)
Bach - Organ sonata in E minor
Bach - Second Organ Concerto
Bach - Brandenburg Concertos nos.3 and 4
Bach - Piano Concerto in F major
Bach W.F. - Fantasy and Fugue in A minor
Beethoven - String Quartet, Op.131
Brahms - 3 Caprices after the Waltzes, Op.39
Bruckner - String Quintet in F major
Buxtehude - Passacaglia in D minor
Buxtehude - Prelude and fugue in A minor
Buxtehude - Prelude and fugue in D minor
Buxtehude - Prelude and fugue in E minor (no.2)
Buxtehude - Prelude and fugue in F major
Buxtehude - Prelude and fugue in F♯ minor
Buxtehude - Prelude and fugue in G minor
Buxtehude - Prelude in E minor
Liszt - Dante Symphony
Transcriptions of all 13 of Liszt's Symphonic Poems
Liszt - Faust Symphony
Liszt - Es muss ein Wunderbares sein
Mozart - Symphony no.40
Mozart - Canzone on The Marriage of Figaro
Paganini - Bravoure Study on Caprices
Purcell - Chaconne
Reubke - Sonata on the 94th Psalm
Stradal - Abenddämmerung
Strauss J - Concert paraphrase on the waltz "Dorfschwalben aus Österreich"
Wagner - Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond (from Die Walküre); Der Ritt der Walküren (from Die Walküre); Schluss des letzten Aufzuges (from Die Walküre) Waldweben (from Siegfried); Rheinfahrt aus dem Vorspiel (from Götterdämmerung); Trauermusik aus dem letzten Aufzug (from Götterdämmerung); Wesendonck-Lieder.
Vivaldi / J.S. Bach - Organ Concerto in D minor
References
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) and Viennese Musicians of 19th century, accessed April 8, 2008.
Anton Bruckner Symphony Versions Discography Compiled and Maintained by John F. Berky, accessed April 8, 2008.