Jozef Hofmann - Selected Pieces for Piano

00:00 Mazurka No.1 (Artem Yasynskyy) 04:53 Kaleidoscope from Characterskizzen No.4 (Shura Cherkassky) 09:36 Penguine from Trois Impressions no.1 (Jozef Hofmann) 12:02 Le Sanctuaire from Trois Impressions No.3 (Akira Eguchi) 14:35 Etude for the left hand alone (Artem Yasynskyy) 18:20 Elegy (Jozef Hofmann) 20:07 Nocturne from Mignonette (Juoni Somero) Jozef or Josef Hofmann (1876-1957) was a Polish (and American) Composer and Pianist. As a composer, Hofmann published over one hundred works, many of those under the pseudonym Michel Dvorsky, including two piano concertos and ballet music. His father was the composer, conductor and pianist Kazimierz Hofmann, and his mother the singer Matylda Pindelska. Josef Hofmann, a child prodigy, gave a debut recital in Warsaw at the age of 5, and a long series of concerts throughout Europe and Scandinavia, culminating in a series of concerts in America in 1887-88 that elicited comparisons with the young Mozart and the young Mendelssohn. He was a student of