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Maria Lettberg
12+ albums
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MARIA LETTBERG was born in Riga as the daughter of a professor of Russian literature and a mathematician. Her instrument has been an integral part of her life since she was seven years old. At the age of nine she made her first public appearance playing Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto. Maria is Swedish and has lived in Berlin for several years. She speaks five languages. Ms Lettberg`s talent was recognised and nurtured at an early age; she went straight from the central Latvian elite school for musically gifted children to the Petersburg Conservatory. There, she was able to develop her personality as a pianist considerably and perfect her virtuoso technique until she graduated with distinction in her concert examination. Following her concert examination, she took the conscious decision to forgo what seemed so obvious; to try to make a name in the worldwide competitive arena. Instead of perfecting a repertoire to compete in this arena, she made good use of the freedom which scholarships afforded her to develop musically by participating in further courses of study, master classes and individual programmes (Royal College in Stockholm; Sibelius Academy, Helsinki). In this way she was able to widen her repertoire and to deepen her musical interests. Important teachers included Tatjana Zagorovskaja, Andrej Gavrilov, Paul Badura-Skoda, Menachem Pressler, Emanuel Krasovsky, Roland Pöntinen und Matti Raekallio. Her most important achievement so far has been --- besides a large
top songs
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Allegro Appassionato, Op. 4
1702Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6 : I. Allegro con fuoco
1663Valse in A-Flat Major, Op. 38
15442 Nocturnes, Op. 5: No. 2 in A major
15452 Nocturnes, Op. 5: No. 1 in F sharp minor
151624 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 1 in C major
144724 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 2 in A minor
1438Piano Sonata No. 1 In F Minor, Op. 6 : II. —
13892 Impromptus a la mazur, Op. 7: No. 1 in G sharp minor
136102 Impromptus a la mazur, Op. 7: No. 2 in F sharp major
129albums
Scriabin: The Solo Piano Works
Poème de l'extase (Werke von Skrjabin, Messiaen, Liszt, Kelkel und Banter)
Der Zaubergarten (Pianotranskriptionen russischer Bühnenwerke von Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakow und Stravinsky)
Melartin: The Solo Piano Works
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Levina: Chamber Music
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Classical for Focus
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The Solo Piano Works (Complete Recording)
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Europolis
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Classical Focus
Poème de l'extase
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Schnittke: Chamber Piano Concerto No. 4, Piano Quintet & Piano Quartet
The Enchanted Garden (Piano transcriptions of russian fairy tales by Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky)