Jan Václav Voříšek and Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, the two composers on this album, both died young from tuberculosis.
Composer Biography
Jan Václav Voříšek, one of the composers on this album, was a child prodigy as a pianist, violinist, and music teacher from age fifteen.
Composer Biography
Voříšek and Arriaga, the two composers on this album, died within two months of each other in foreign countries.
Composer Biography
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, one of the composers on this album, was born exactly 50 years after Mozart.
Composition History
Voříšek's Symphony in D was composed in Vienna in 1823, a city then abuzz with talk of Beethoven.
Composer Biography
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, one of the composers on this album, composed his only opera, 'Los esclavos felices' ('The Happy Slaves'), at the age of fourteen.
Composer Biography
Jan Václav Voříšek, one of the composers on this album, was born just under seven months before Mozart died.
