Kozeluch: Three Scottish Piano Trios - COMPACT DISCS

Kozeluch: Three Scottish Piano Trios - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Three Scottish Piano Trios Artist: Kozeluch Label: Cpo Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 761203503520 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2018 07 06 Number of Discs: 1 Leopold Kozeluch enjoyed such an outstanding reputation in 1781 that he received an offer from the Archbishop of Salzburg to succeed Mozart as court organist. Kozeluch's piano trios must have been very popular since more than sixty of them appeared in print from 1781 to 1810.

Title: Three Scottish Piano Trios
Artist: Kozeluch
Label: Cpo Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 761203503520
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018-07-06
Number of Discs: 1

Leopold Kozeluch enjoyed such an outstanding reputation in 1781 that he received an offer from the Archbishop of Salzburg to succeed Mozart as court organist. Kozeluch's piano trios must have been very popular since more than sixty of them appeared in print from 1781 to 1810. The three trios presented here were published in 1798 / 99 and had been preceded by forty other such works by him. The special feature of these three piano trios lies in his use of melodies from Scottish folk songs in their middle and last movements. Toward the end of the eighteenth century the Edinburgh publisher George Thomson had the idea to have Viennese classical composers set Scottish, Irish, and Welsh folk songs to music with an accompaniment for piano, violin, and violoncello and contacted Haydn, Kozeluch, Pleyel, and (later) Beethoven in the hope of winning them for this project. They gratefully accepted the offer and produced settings in rich supply - in Beethoven's case alone, more than two hundred - that unfortunately are almost completely forgotten today. The works are presented here by Trio 1790, consisting of cellist and violist Imola Gombos, violinist Annette Wehnert, and pianist Harald Hoeren.

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