Józef Wieniawski's musical style and language owe a great debt to his predecessors Fryderyk Chopin and Franz Liszt, but his solo piano music displays his own original voice.
Compositional Technique
Józef Wieniawski's piano writing is highly virtuosic and pianistic, incorporating standard Romantic-era techniques like octaves, scalar passagework, arpeggios, and free cadenzas, while also requiring a warm, lyrical tone.
Composer Biography
Józef Wieniawski studied composition with Charles-Valentin Alkan, a like-minded virtuoso pianist-composer, at the Paris Conservatory and later spent two years studying with Franz Liszt in Weimar.
Composer Biography
Józef Wieniawski was only the second pianist to perform Frédéric Chopin's complete études in concert, following Franz Liszt.
Composer Biography
Józef Wieniawski, a prolific Polish composer and virtuoso pianist, was the younger brother of the more famous virtuoso violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski.
Recording & Production
This album features several works by Józef Wieniawski that have never been commercially recorded before, along with others that have only a small handful of recent recordings.
Recording & Production
Five of the pieces on this album are world premiere recordings, including the Barcarolle in B flat major, Op. 29, and Polonaise No. 3 in G sharp minor, Op. 27.
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