Korngold The Piano Music

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Title: Korngold The Piano Music
Otros títulos: Korngold Sonata No. 2 Märchenbilder Was der Wald erzählt
Intérprete/ Colaborador: Erich Wolfgang Korngold; Martin Jones
Código CDU: Kor.02
Forma Musical: Sonatas (Piano), Waltzes, Operas
Abstract: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's career bridged astonishing gaps in history and music—from the final years of Imperial Austria, when he was hailed as "a new Mozart," to Hollywood in the heyday of the studio system, to the darkened era of postwar Europe. In Vienna of the 1920s, his name evoked the best that engagingly melodic, tonal music had to offer in the concert hall or the opera house; in Hollywood he was synonymous with the swashbucklers of Errol Flynn. Born in Brünn, in Moravia (now Brno, Czechoslovakia) he was the son of Julius Korngold, one of the most influential music critics in Vienna. Korngold was beating time with a spoon by the age of three, playing basic melodies at age 5, and composing at age 6. He was encouraged by Gustav Mahler to pursue his musical studies, and his teachers included Alexander Von Zemlinsky. He'd written a Piano Sonata in D minor and a ballet entitled The Snowman before he was 10, and at 13, he saw his second piano sonata premiered by Artur Schnabel. He wrote ...


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1. I. Sonata No. 2 Op. 2 - Moderato.mp3 9:05 12.47Mb MPEG Audio mp3
2. II. Sonata N ... zo (Allegro impetuoso).mp3 7:43 10.59Mb MPEG Audio mp3
3. III. Sonata ... 2 - Largo (Con dolore).mp3 7:08 9.791Mb MPEG Audio mp3
4. IV. Sonata N ... inale (Allegro vivace).mp3 5:46 7.908Mb MPEG Audio mp3
Seven fairy tal ... piano Op. 3 - Completo.wav 23:15 234.6Mb WAV audio wav
Four waltzes for piano - Completo.wav 11:45 118.5Mb WAV audio wav
Four little car ... dren Op. 19 - Completo.wav 2:22 23.84Mb WAV audio wav
What the woods tell me - Completo.wav 6:03 61.03Mb WAV audio wav
Sonata No. 2 Op. 2 - Completo.wav 29:33 298.3Mb WAV audio wav

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