Adolf Jensen's career was cut short by tuberculosis, which has undoubtedly hindered his reputation.
Album & Artwork
Toccata Classics was founded to release recordings of music from the Renaissance to the present day that has been neglected by other labels.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Adolf Jensen had a reverence for Richard Wagner's music and aspired to translate Wagner's ideas of beauty and truth into smaller musical forms.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Adolf Jensen was deeply interested in eighteenth-century keyboard music, calling J. S. Bach's organ compositions "perhaps the grandest and most precious thing the whole musical literature has to show."
Performer Biography
Erling R. Eriksen was awarded the Grieg Prize in 2000 for his contributions to Edvard Grieg and his music.
Performer Biography
Erling R. Eriksen, the pianist on this recording, is a professor of piano at the University of Stavanger and has given concerts in Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan, and China.
Composer Biography
Adolf Jensen (1837-79) composed large-scale works like the opera Die Erbin von Montfort and a Piano Trio dedicated to Liszt, but lieder and solo-piano pieces dominated his output.
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