Christopher Czaja Sager

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Christopher CZAJA SAGER was born in New York City into a family distinguished by dancers, writers, painters and musicians of English, Irish and Polish ancestry. His first piano teacher, Frances Moyer Kuhns, herself a student of Cortot and Matthay, noted early, that Czaja Sager had a special affinity for the music of J.S. Bach, Chopin, Mozart and Schumann, Debussy, Scriabin and Schoenberg, composers who have remained central to his repertoire. Emil Danenberg, an assistant of Arnold Schoenberg and student of Eduard Steuermann and Rosina Lhévinne, at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, were his major professors at conservatoire level (Mme Lhévinne was a fellow student together with Scriabin of Safonov). In the U.S.A. Czaja Sager won several important First Prizes, including the ”National Auditions for Pianists” in Washington D.C., First Prize of the Harpsichord Society of New York, the “Van Cliburn Alumni Scholarship of the Juilliard School of Music”, the “Biennial Recording Competition” and the first “Artist Support Fund Award”. After participation in the 1969 Vienna International Piano Master Class with Badura-Skoda, Brendel and Demus, Christopher Czaja Sager was unanimously awarded the “Förderungs Stipendium” to further his career. In the early 1970’s Czaja Sager made his first two tours in Europe, introducing several new compositions by American composers, but also performing seldom-heard compositions by J.S. Bach (4 Duette) and Scriabin (Poème Nocturn

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Bach Keyboard Works

Bach: Keyboard Partitas

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Schumann: Waldszenen, Op. 82 / Davidsbundlertanze, Op. 6

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Bach: 6 Partitas, BWV 825-830

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Keyboard Partitas

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Adagio

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Erste tei der clavir-übung

Waldszenen op. 82 / Davidsbundlertanze op. 6

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J.S. Bach: Italian Concerto, French Overture, 4 Duets

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Schumann: Waldszenen, Op. 82 - Davidsbundlertanze, Op. 6

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Schumann: Waldszenen und Davidsbundlertanze

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Piano Virtuoso

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