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German composer (1850-1907)
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- Kingdom of Prussia
- composer, music teacher, pianist
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2018-10-14 06:00:12
Hyperion showcases two lesser lights and hits a Liszt century, while Brian Cox illuminates The Planets • The Hyperion label continues its Romantic piano concerto series with works by two composers who can hardly be described as household names: by Hans August Alexander Bronsart von Schellendorf (or just plain Hans von Bronsart) and Anton Urspruch. No, me neither, but don’t be put off; these are really interesting pieces. Liszt thought so highly of his pupil Bronsart that he dedicated his second piano concerto to him, and while Bronsart’s impressively grandiose F sharp minor concerto of 1873 displays many Lisztian flourishes, it’s very distinctively his own. He wrote it for his wife Ingeborg Starck, for whom, incidentally, Wagner harboured a passion. She must have been quite a pianist, as this stentorian concerto makes huge demands on the soloist, particularly in the spectacularly fiery and exciting finale. Urspruch, another pupil of Liszt in […]
2018-07-24 19:19:24
Anton Urspruch (1850-1907), a name new to me, was a German composer, pedagogue and pianist who studi
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