Kozeluch - Complete Music for Piano 4-Hands
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96025
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 25th February 2022
Contents
Works
Duo in F major for piano 4-hands, op.19Sonata in B flat major for piano 4-hands, op.8 no.3
Sonata in B flat major for piano 4-hands, op.29
Sonata in F major for piano 4-hands, op.4
Sonatas (3) for piano 4-hands, op.12
Artists
Marius Bartoccini (fortepiano)Ilario Gregoletto (fortepiano)
Works
Duo in F major for piano 4-hands, op.19Sonata in B flat major for piano 4-hands, op.8 no.3
Sonata in B flat major for piano 4-hands, op.29
Sonata in F major for piano 4-hands, op.4
Sonatas (3) for piano 4-hands, op.12
Artists
Marius Bartoccini (fortepiano)Ilario Gregoletto (fortepiano)
About
Leopold Antonín Kozeluch was born on 26 June 1747 in Velvary, to the north-west of Prague. He began his musical career in 1771 as a composer of ballet music and in 1778 decided to abandon the study of the law and to move to Vienna, where in a short time he was able to establish himself as a composer and performer thanks to his indisputable musical qualities and his ability to cultivate good relations to sustain and expand his activities. In 1792, after the death of Mozart, Emperor Franz II invited to him to take up the post of Kammer Kapellmeister and Hofmusik Compositor (it would appear at double the salary Mozart had received); Kozeluch remained in this post until his death in 1818.
Building upon stylistic influences inherited from his teacher František Xaver Dušek (the first Czech composer to approach the fourhands piano genre in a manner neither frivolous nor didactic), Kozeluch committed himself to composing for keyboard duo, raising its aesthetic and technical level and contributing to the evolution of a concert hall repertoire worthy of the same attention as solo sonatas.
The large-scale works were recorded on an original fortepiano constructed in Vienna by Johann Schantz in the early years of the 19th century and therefore contemporary with Kozeluch. The Duo, op.19, and Three Sonatas, op.12, with their domestic character, were recorded on the Longman & Broderip square piano, a type of instrument extremely popular in the households of the day and therefore appropriate for Hausmusik.
Recorded in October 2020 in Vittorio Veneto (Treviso), Italy
Booklet in English contains notes on the composer and his works by performer Marius Bartoccini, and biographies of the two artists
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