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Robert Volkmann
12+ albums
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Friedrich Robert Volkmann (April 6, 1815–October 30, 1883) was a German composer. He was born in Lommatzsch, Saxony, Germany. His father was music director for a church, so the father trained the son in music to prepare him as a successor. Thus Volkmann learned to play the organ and the piano with his father, as well as violin and cello, and by age 12, he was playing the cello part in String Quartets by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. In 1832, Robert Volkmann entered the Freiberg Gymnasium and studied music with Anacker, going on to Leipzig in 1836 to study with C.F. Becker. There, in Leipzig, Volkmann met Robert Schumann, who encouraged Volkmann. They met again several times after that. When he finished his studies, he began working as voice teacher at a music school in Prague. He didn't stay there long, and in 1841, he moved to Budapest, where he was employed as a piano teacher and a reporter for the Allgemeine Wiener Musik-Zeitung. He pretty much composed in obscurity until 1852, when his Piano Trio in B-flat minor caught the ears of Franz Liszt and Hans von Bülow, who proceeded to play it several times all over Europe. In 1854, Volkmann moved to Vienna, only to return to Budapest in 1858. Thanks to the publisher Gustav Heckenast, who in 1857 bought the rights to publish all Volkmann's works in exchange for regular income regardless of sales, Volkmann was able to fully dedicate himself to composition, until Heckenast closed down his Budapest publishing house in the early 1
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Serenade Nr.2 für Streichorchester F-Dur Op.63
352Allegretto aus der Sinfonie Nr. 2 B-Dur op. 53
263Cello Concerto In A Minor, Op. 33
264Konzertstück in C Minor, Op. 42
255Allegretto aus der Sinfonie Nr.2 B-Dur Op.53
236Lieder der Großmutter, Op. 27: No. 12, Sanft und langsam
197Piano Trio op.3 in F major: II. Scherzo - Allehretto vivace
128Piano Trio op.3 in F major: III. Andante
129Mass No. 2 in A-Flat Major, Op. 29: II. Gloria
1210Serenade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 63: II. Molto vivace
11albums
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Volkmann: Piano Works
Robert Volkmann: Lieder und Kammermusik (Jubilee Edition 2015)
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Pfitzner: Violin Concerto - Volkmann: Konzertstuck / Cello Concerto
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Romantic Piano Concertos
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Battle Music
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Radio Swiss Classic
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Piano Trios Opp.3 & 5 [Beethoven Trio Ravensburg]
Strings Quartets Nos. 1 & 4
String Quartets Nos. 1 & 4
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Robert Volkmann: Three Works for Cello and Piano
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Piano Trios op.3 & op.5 (Beethoven Trio Ravensburg)
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The Romantic Cello Concerto, Vol. 2