Theodor Billroth News
Prussian surgeon and amateur musician (1829-1894)
Commemorations 2024 (Death: Theodor Billroth)
- piano, violin
- Kingdom of Prussia
- physician, surgeon, professor, pianist
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2020-07-11 20:02:46
Brahms’ B-flat Piano Concerto (1881) dates from the start of the composer’s ripest maturity, the period when his fame had reached a peak throughout Europe and his physical image as we know it best was fixed: bearded and corpulent. It was also the time when one of his more tiresome quirks began to mark his correspondence: his cutesy references to his scores, the larger they got, as “miniatures.” Thus, Brahms described the sketches for Op. 83 to his friend and cultural mentor, the Viennese surgeon Dr. Theodor Billroth, as “some little piano pieces.” He went further with his friend and
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