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Joachim Raff
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Joseph Joachim Raff (May 27, 1822 – June 24 or June 25, 1882) was a German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist. Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight for Napoleon in Russia. Joachim was largely self-taught in music, studying the subject while working as a schoolmaster in Schmerikon, Schwyz and Rapperswil. He sent some of his piano compositions to Felix Mendelssohn who recommended them to Breitkopf & Härtel for publication. They were published in 1844 and received a favourable review in Robert Schumann's journal, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, which prompted Raff to go to Zürich and take up composition full time. In 1845, Raff walked to Basel to hear Franz Liszt play the piano. After a period in Stuttgart where he became friends with the conductor Hans von Bülow, he worked as Liszt's assistant at Weimar from 1850 to 1853. During this time he helped Liszt in the orchestration of several of his works, claiming to have had a major part in orchestrating the symphonic poem Tasso. In 1851, Raff's opera König Alfred was staged in Weimar, and five years later he moved to Wiesbaden where he largely devoted himself to composition. From 1877 he was the first Director of, and a teacher at, the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. There he employed Clara Schumann and a number of other eminent musicians as teachers, and established
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Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 153, "Im Walde": II. Abteilung: In der Dammerung. Traumerei: Largo
2,2882Symphony No. 10 in F Minor, Op. 213, "Zur Herbstzeit": III. Elegie: Adagio
7033Volker, Op. 203: No. 3. Im Rosengarten zu Worms: Tranquillo
4994Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 208, "Im Sommer": II. Die Jagd der Elfen: Allegro
3505Symphony No. 5 in E Major, Op. 177, "Lenore": II. Andante quasi larghetto
34462 Piano Pieces, Op. 157: No. 2, La Fileuse. Etude - Welte-Mignon 424
2567Raff: Cavatina in A-Flat Major, Op. 85, No. 3
25486 Morceaux, Op. 85: III. Cavatina (Arr. Garrett / van der Heijden for Violin and Orchestra)
2249Cavatina, Op. 85, No. 3
21110Cavatina
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Raff, J.: Symphony No. 3 / Italienische Suite
Raff, J.: Symphonies Nos. 8 and 10
Raff: Volker
Raff, J.: Symphony No. 9
Raff, J.: Symphony No. 5 / Suite No. 1
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Wagner: Music for Violin & Piano
Joachim Raff – Complete Works for Cello & Piano
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Raff: Works for Piano & Orchestra
RAFF: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 10
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Joachim Raff: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4 & 8
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2 Romances, Op. 182: II. Romance in B-Flat Major
Raff: Symphony No. 2 - 4 Shakespeare Preludes