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German-born French pianist, composer, piano teacher and piano manufacturer (1784-1849)
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2023-11-10 08:21:00
[…] Schubert had composed his second, third, fourth and fifth symphonies. They remained close friends, and in the 1820s were members of the same musical and social circle. Perhaps most importantly Bogner had arranged performances of Schubert's songs. The piece begins all sober and serious, intent like the original song, but then Schubert lets himself loose, and great fun is had all round.Leopoldine Blahetka was an Austrian pianist and composer whose teachers included Czerny, Moscheles and Kalkbrenner. It takes a salon-like delight in a series of variations where display the performers' talent but also Blahetka's capacity for fun. The other lesser known name is the French flute player and composer, with his Carmen fantasy the really does seem to have its tongue firmly in its cheek, to delightful effect. Beethoven's seven-movement Serenade was originally written in 1801 for flute, violin and viola, but in 1803, Franz Xaver Kleinheinz arranged the serenade […]
2023-10-14 18:25:00
New York Philharmonic. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, conductor; Daniil Trifonov, piano. October 13, 2023.
[…] Inon Barnatan and the New Jersey Symphony in 2020. She didn't marry Robert until 1939, so was still Clara Wieck. The Program Notes also mentions her influence by Liszt and Chopin. Perhaps that just the development of classical music during that time period? Also, Clara Schumann gave the premiere performance of the Robert Schumann concerto.Today's Program Notes also describe most concertos written during that time were considered lightweight vehicles for showmanship. The composers listed - Kalkbrenner, Thalberg, Herz, Pixis, and so on - have indeed slipped to the fringe of the repertoire; I didn't know any of them. The Schumann concerto had its origin in 1841 as a one-movement Phantasie for Piano and Orchestra, performed twice at the Leipzig Gewandhaus with Clara Schumann as the soloist, and Felix Mendelssohn as the conductor.De Profundis was written by Serksnyte as her bachelor's graduation work in 1998. She is now teaching at the […]
2019-09-12 13:55:34
Felix Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto in G minor is hardly a youthful effort, seeing that at 22 Mendelssohn was already a grizzled veteran and roughly one third into his entire compositional career. Still, it’s a brilliant, frothy little thing that fits right in there with the concertos of Kalkbrenner, Moscheles, or Chopin. The follow-up, seven […]
2018-11-05 12:50:00
At last, the definitive Chopin biography is here
[…] whom Walker has devoted so much of his life - is here reincarnated as a weaselish, gossipy, amoral, immoral presence, the antithesis of everything Chopin stood for. Once he asked to borrow Chopin's apartment - and used it to seduce the wife of Pleyel, Chopin's favourite piano maker. You get the picture. And his mistress Marie d'Agoult is even worse. Every time they appear you know there's going to be trouble. Meanwhile the bumptious pianist Kalkbrenner is gloriously lampooned: apparently he liked to try to improve his friends' table-manners. And - wait for it - the singer and composer Pauline Viardot, with whom readers of JDCMB will be familiar, had a full-blown love affair with Sand's son, Maurice, a couple of years after she married Louis Viardot, oh yes indeed.And Chopin himself? We often think of him as a neurotic, narcissistic dandy, hideously anti-semitic, making his friends' lives a misery, […]
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