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Jan Ladislav Dussek
12+ albums
ClassicalCzechjan ladislav dussekcomposer18th century
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Jan Ladislav Dussek or Jan Ladislav Dusík (baptized as Václav Jan Dusík) (February 12, 1760 in Čáslav-March 20, 1812 in St.-Germain-en-Laye) was a Czech composer and pianist. The Dussek family has an extraordinarily long history as professional musicians, starting at least as early as Jan Ladislav's grandfather, and lasting in the Moravian branch of the family at least into the 1970s. Of them, Jan Ladislav is often known as "Dussek the Great". Jan Ladislav's mother was a harpist, and he composed much music for the harp as well as for the piano. Great as his music may be, his personal life (in which harpists figured prominently) was the stuff of which movies are made. After early studies in Bohemia, Dussek traveled to the Netherlands and Germany, where he may have studied with C. P. E. Bach. From there, he moved to St. Petersburg, where he was, for a time, a favourite of Catherine the Great. However, after a while, he fled St. Petersburg just ahead of Catherine's secret police, who accused him of involvement in a plot to assassinate Catherine. Given Dussek's lifelong royalist sympathies, his well-attested personal good looks, and Catherine's proclivity for beautiful young men, a different explanation seems more probable. After Dussek left St. Petersburg, he took a position as music director for Prince Radziwill in Lithuania for a year, after which he toured Germany in the mid 1780s as a virtuoso performer on the piano and on the glass harmonica. Later he went to France where
top songs
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Allegro con spirito
1,2302Fantasia and Fugue for Piano, Op. 55: Fugue
7823Piano Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 40, "Military": I. Allegro moderato
6834Piano Sonata, Op. 70 'Le retour à Paris': I. Allegro non troppo ed espressivo
6275Allegro
4066Sonatina in G Major, Op. 20, No. 1: I. Allegro non tanto
2137Harp Sonata: III. Rondo - Allegro
1858Harp Sonata: II. Andantino
1849Piano Sonata No. 28 in F Minor, Op. 77, Craw 259: III. Adagio non troppo, ma solenne
18010Sonata for Harp in C Minor: II. Andantino
151albums
DUSSEK / WAGENSEIL / KRUMPHOLTZ: Harp Concertos
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J.L. Dussek: Sonatas
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Dussek: The Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2
Dussek: Piano Concerto in F Major, Piano Concerto in B-Flat Major & Piano Sonata in A-Flat Major
Dussek: Six Sonatinas Opus 20
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Virtuoso Harp
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Dussek: Complete Piano Sonatas, Op. 44 & Op. 77
Dussek: Messe solomnelle in G Major, C. 256
Dussek, J.L.: Piano Sonatas - Opp. 9 and 77
Dussek: Piano Concertos
Dussek: Concerto for Two Pianos & Chamber Works
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Dussek: Grand Sonata