Giulio Ricordi: Piano Works

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Roberto Piana
Giulio Ricordi

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Composer Biography

Giulio Ricordi was a complex figure: a witty journalist, an inflexible tycoon, a brilliant conversationalist, an amateur watercolor painter, and a musician.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Giulio Ricordi composed almost every evening during the last decades of his life, using music as a form of therapy to process and recompose musical ideas.

Compositional Technique

For his piece 'La bicicletta', Ricordi even supplied a special bell with a cork lid to be attached to an upright piano's candle holder, to recreate the sounds of a journey.

Composer Biography

Giulio Ricordi, the composer of these piano works, was also known as the most gifted musical publisher in history, born in 1840 and dying in 1912.

Compositional Technique

Giulio Ricordi, under his pseudonym Jules Burgmein, incorporated contemporary inventions like bicycles, tramcars, and automobiles into his music, creating waltzes, polkas, and galops.

Performer Biography

Roberto Piana, the pianist on this album, is also a composer and has won numerous piano and composition contests, including the International Competition Libertango dedicated to Astor Piazzolla.

Composer Biography

Giulio Ricordi signed all his compositions with the pseudonym Jules Burgmein, even fueling curiosity about this mysterious figure in his own magazine, Musica e Musicisti.