Sigismond Thalberg - Piano Trio in A major Op. 69 (1854)

 

Sigismund Thalberg, Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, 1841.

 

(8 January 1812 – 27 April 1871)

was a composer and one of the most distinguished virtuoso pianists of the 19th century.피아노 테크닉에 큰 발전을 이루었으며, 프란츠 리스트와 라이벌 관계로 유명하다.

Contents

• 1Family
• 2Early life
• 3Early virtuoso career
• 4European tours

Piano Trio in A major Op. 69 (1854)

I. Allegretto molto moderato (0:00) II. Andante cantabile (14:08) III. Allegretto ma non troppo (23:06)

The Atlantis Trio Jaap Schröder, violin Enid Sutherland, cello Penelope Crawford, fortepiano

 

Thalberg was one of the most famous and most successful piano composers of the 19th century. In the 1830s and the 1840s, his style was a major force in European piano-playing. He was greatly in fashion and was imitated by others. In 1852, Wilhelm von Lenz wrote: 'The piano playing of the present day, to tell the truth, consists only of Thalberg simple, Thalberg amended, and Thalberg exaggerated; scratch what is written for the piano, and you will find Thalberg.' Ten years later, in 1862, a London correspondent of the Revue et gazette musicale wrote: 'Nobody in fact has been so much imitated; his manner has been parodied, exaggerated, twisted, tortured, and it may have happened more than once to all of us to curse this Thalbergian school'. In the late 19th century, Thalberg's fame had come to depend on his association with a single piano technique, the 'three-hand effect'. Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, in his Geschichte des Klavierspiels (1879), wrote about this. 'His bravura pieces, fantasies on melodies from Rossini's Mosè and La donna del lago, on motifs from Bellini's Norma and on Russian folk-songs, became extraordinarily popular through his own, brilliant execution; however, they treat their subjects always in one and the same way, [namely] ... to let the tones of a melody be played in the medium octave of the keyboard now by the thumb of the right, now of the left hand, while the rest of the fingers are executing arpeggios filling the whole range of the keyboard'.