Friedrich Gernsheim: Piano Quintet No. 1 & 2

Friedrich Gernsheim

Friedrich Gernsheim (17 July 1839 – 10 September 1916)

was a German composer, conductor and pianist.

 

Gernsheim was born in Worms. He was given his first musical training at home under his mother's care, then starting from the age of seven under Worms' musical director, Louis Liebe, a former pupil of Louis Spohr. His father, a prominent Jewish physician, moved the family to Frankfurt am Main in the aftermath of the year of revolutions, 1848, where he studied with Edward Rosenhain, brother of Jakob Rosenhain.[1] He made his first public appearance as a concert pianist in 1850 and toured for two seasons, then settled with his family in Leipzig, where he studied piano with Ignaz Moscheles from 1852. He spent the years 1855–1860 in Paris, meeting Gioachino Rossini, Théodore Gouvy, Édouard Lalo and Camille Saint-Saëns.

• 2.Career
• 3.Style
• 4.Selected works (excerpted from worklist)

 Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op.35

I. Allegro moderato 0:00​ II. Andante molto cantabile 11:14​

III. Vivace ed energico 18:50​ IV. Allegro con brio 25:18​

 

Edouard Oganessian, piano The ArtVio String Quartet

 

Piano Quintet No. 2 in B minor, Op. 63

I. Molto moderato 0:00​ II. Adagio 10:42​

III. Allegretto molto grazioso e sempre scherzando 19:59​ IV. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo presto 23:14​

 

Reiko Uchida, piano Formosa Quartet