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Friedrich Kalkbrenner
12+ albums
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Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner (7 November 1785–10 June 1849) was a German pianist and composer. Son of Christian Kalkbrenner (1755-1806), a musician of Cassel, Friedrich was educated at the Paris Conservatoire, and soon began to play in public. From 1814 to 1823 he was well known as a brilliant performer and a successful teacher in London, and then settled in Paris, dying at Enghien, near there, in 1849. As a teacher Kalkbrenner developed a piano playing technique that kept the musician's strength in the fingers and hands, instead of the forearm. This technique was used by his student Camille-Marie Stamaty, who taught it to his student, Camille Saint-Saëns. He became a member of the Paris piano-manufacturing firm of Pleyel & Co., and made a fortune by his business and his art combined. His numerous compositions are less remembered now than his instruction-book, with studies, which has long been popular among pianists. Chopin's first piano concerto is dedicated to Kalkbrenner. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 61: I. Allegro maestoso
1412Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 61: II. Adagio di molto
1103Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 61: III. Rondo. Vivace
1074Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 61: III. Rondo vivace
915Aus: "50 Veränderungen über einen Walzer von Anton Diabelli" (Wien, 1824): IV. Var. XVIII
70625 Grandes Etudes, Op. 143: III. Presto in B-Flat Minor
35725 Grandes Etudes, Op. 143: I. Leggiero e vivace in F Major
348Var. 18 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz
349Grande Marche, Orage & Polonaise, Op. 93
3310Nocturne, Op. 121: No. 1 in A-Flat Major "Les Soupirs de la Harpe Eolienne"
26albums
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Kalkbrenner: 25 Grandes Etudes de Style et de Perfectionnement, Op. 143
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Kalkbrenner: Chamber Music
Friedrich Kalkbrenner: Complete Piano Music Vol. 1
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Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
Kalkbrenner: 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 4
Kalkbrenner: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 56)
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The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 41
Kalkbrenner: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 41)
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Kalkbrenner: 3 Piano Sonatas
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Kalkbrenner: Grand Septuor, Op. 132 & Grand Quintetto, Op. 81
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Chopin: His Contemporaries and His Instruments
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The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 41