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In April of 2015, I used to be listening to my native classical music station in Houston after I heard this piano concerto I had by no means heard earlier than. It had the construction of a classical period concerto and it sounded somewhat like a bit from the Italian composer Muzio Clementi or the Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel. However I used to be improper as I realized it was from a composer I had by no means heard of earlier than, Ignaz Moscheles.
Whereas I had by no means heard of Moscheles, he was definitely not an insignificant man in classical music.
From Wikipedia, I discovered he was a Jewish Bohemian [Czech] composer and piano virtuoso, born in Prague, along with his profession primarily based early on in London and later in Vienna. Ignaz Moscheles was at one time a instructor of the good Felix Mendelssohn.
I additionally realized that Moscheles had good relations with the enormous of the early Romantic music period, Ludwig Van Beethoven: “Whereas in Vienna Moscheles was in a position to meet his idol Beethoven, who was so impressed with the younger man’s talents that he entrusted him with the preparation of the piano rating of his opera Fidelio.” Moscheles would transcribe the piano rating for Fidelio.
After the demise of Mendelssohn in 1847, Ignaz Moscheles headed the Liepzig Conservatory of Music, that Mendelssohn had based, the place it’s stated: “The Conservatory grew to become in impact a shrine to Mendelssohn’s musical legacy”.
From Britannica bio-Ignaz Mescheles: “Moscheles belonged to a conservative faculty of piano taking part in that didn’t lend itself to the works of Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt; of the youthful composers of his day, he leaned extra towards Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann, nonetheless, his explorations of the gradations of tone color [sic] influenced Liszt in addition to Schumann. He was additionally admired for his good extempore performances. His personal compositions embody eight piano concerti, research, and chamber works”.
“Moscheles died [at the age of 75] in Leipzig on 10 March 1870, 9 days after attending his final rehearsal with the Liepzig Gewandhaus Orchestra”.
Please flip up the amount and luxuriate in some grand [piano] music by the piano virtuoso/composer, Ignaz Moscheles:
Beethoven’s, Fidelio Overture, organized for piano by Moscheles:
Etude [Study] for Piano in D Main:
Piano Concerto #3 in G minor:
Piano Sonate mélancolique:
Etude #14, Allegro Maestoso:
Piano Concerto #1 in F Main:
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