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Son of Russian composer and pianist Alexander Skriabin, Julian drowned in the Dnieper River aged just eleven years old but he had already shown great promise as a young composer with these four preludes. Reminiscent of his fathers late style, the ......

A composer with a vast and varied catalogue of works Raff is celebrated as much for his prodigious originality as for his technical accomplishments. A former protégé of Liszt, Raffs Ungarische Rhapsodie Opus 113, pays homage to the Hungarian rhaps......

The Romanze of 1847 was composed at a pivotal moment in Raffs career when the next serious phase of his musical career was being envisaged. Living a precarious existence between abject poverty and tempestuous creativity the Romanze is the child of......

The Mazurka started life in the17C as a Polish dance of rustic regional origins and is said to have borrowed its distinctive accent on the weak beat of a measure from the Polish language itself. When Raff composed the Grand Mazurka, the form endur......

The Deux Elegies were composed in 1868 during a period of great stability in Raffs life. After years spent under apprenticeship to his mentor and friend, Franz Liszt, Raff had struck out on his own in his efforts to refine his personal style. The ......

Pierné style freely adapts the fashions of his time to incorporate all the latest trends for popular effect. Charming, light, humourous and refined, his luminous compositions leave a tune in the ear long after the last notes have died away. This p......

Conceived at around the time of his Piano Concerto opus 12, the Étude de Concert opus 13 is both an antecedent for and a working out of many of the ideas found in the great work. The study explores many aspects of virtuoso technique and is a verit......

Bohemian violinist and composer Franz Neubauer left his native country to pursue a musical career performing and teaching. On his travels he stopped at various monasteries in Bavaria singing for his supper by playing for food and lodging. Neubauer......

Fleeing conscription into Napoleons army Kuhlau landed in Copenhagen with a stack of manuscripts under his arm. Riding on the popularity of his piano concerto this sonata was one of the first of his works to be published but it already shows a gli......

Remembered as the dedicatee of Beethovens Violin Sonata op. 47, Kreutzer was a leading exponent of the French violin school and composed an influential set of violin studies, the 42 Études ou Caprices still used to this day. This concerto is one o......

Krauss musical style is highly original, with a distinctive sense of lyrical melody and bold harmonies which often anticipate the music of the next century. His overture to Dido and Aenaeas is a proof of that, combining the fashions of his time wi......

Throughout his compositional career, Jadassohn wrote over 140 works in a variety of genres, including symphonies and piano quintets. Although his works were somewhat overshadowed at the time, they are now becoming a popular within piano repertoire......

Taking its place among the great works of Brahms and Schumann, the late Romantic Piano Quintet No.2 in F major, opus 76 of Salomon Jadassohn is both a masterpiece of the genre and an original work in its own right. In four movements and imbued wit......

A child prodigy who received some of his earliest lessons from Mozart and today regarded as one of Europes finest pianists, Hummel undertook several international tours as a youth and gained a reputation as a teacher of note. The Concertino first ......

Heller took the popular Rondo from Paganinis Violin Concerto no.1 as the theme for his first composition when just sixteen year old. The work reflects the high technical ability that was required of a young travelling prodigy and the fertile imagi......

The Charmes de Hambourg takes the form of a brilliant Rondo prefaced by a lyrical introduction in the Viennese style. Composed before Heller turned sixteen it was part of the programme he took on the road in a tour of Hungary (his homeland), Polan......

Nicknamed the German Orpheus, Gluck was a revolutionary figure who influenced a whole generation of composers including Mozart, Berlioz and Wagner, the latter of whom made a modern edition of the source for this : the opera which recounts the sacr......

The virtuoso pianist and pedagogue Carl Czerny remembered for his incendiary technical prowess chose the path towards becoming a fully fledged composer early on, turning his back on the glamour of the celebrity lifestyle enjoyed by other virtuosi ......

Wranitzky has left us a large body of works which remain to be discovered in the present day. A contemporary associate of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Wranitzky deserves reappraisal as a major composer who made a big impact on the music of Vienna ......

Wranitzky was a classical composer, conductor and violinist. His three flute duets, each comprising of three movements, are heavily influenced by Haydn, and explore a range of styles and techniques.