Ignaz Moscheles - Selected Works for Piano

00:00 Etudes Caractéristiques No.7 “Tenderness“ (Etsuho Hirose) 05:24 Etudes Caractéristiques “Anxiety“ (Etsuho Hirose) 09:25 Fantasie in E-Flat Major (Loredana Brigandi) 26:01 Nocturne (Nobue Ito) 32:03 Rondo Brilliant (Marc-André Hamelin) 40:04 Fantasie Dramatique (Michael van Krücker) Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870) was a Bohemian Composer and Pianist. Ignaz developed an early passion for the (then revolutionary) piano music of Beethoven, which the Mozartean Bedřich Diviš Weber, his teacher at the Prague Conservatory, attempted to curb, urging him to focus on Bach, Mozart and Muzio Clementi. He also studied later in Vienna with Albrechtsberger and Salieri. During his time in Vienna he wrote his then most popular work, Alexander Variations for Piano and Orchestra. Moscheles was also familiar with Hummel and Kalkbrenner. Moscheles was also familiar with Hummel and Kalkbrenner. Among the vir