IDAGIO | Beethoven: Diabelli Variations, Op. 120 - Jeajoon Ryu: Suite for Pianoforte 5902547013121

Featuring

Won-Sook Hur
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jeajoon Ryu

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Performer Biography

Won-Sook Hur has been a professor at the department of music, Hoseo University in Korea, since 1988, balancing her teaching with an active performing career.

Performer Biography

Pianist Won-Sook Hur has won several prizes in international competitions, including the first prize in the Valsesia International Piano Competition.

Composer Biography

Jeajoon Ryu, a young South Korean composer, studied composition with Krzysztof Penderecki, a world-renowned composer, at the Cracow Academy of Music.

Compositional Technique

Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, originally titled 'Veränderungen' (transformations), are a highlight of his piano works and are even longer than his monumental 'Hammerklavier' Sonata.

Composition History

Beethoven initially refused to participate in Diabelli's project, as he did not want to be just one of fifty composers.

Performer Biography

Won-Sook Hur, the pianist on this album, was born in Seoul, Korea, and continued her studies at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria.

Composition History

Anton Diabelli, a composer and publisher, initiated a project in 1819 asking fifty composers in the Austrian Empire to write one variation on a waltz he composed.