Pianist Martin Helmchen won the Clara Haskil Competition in 2001, which gave his career its first major impulse.
Performer Biography
Martin Helmchen has received two significant awards: the Crédit Suisse Young Artist Award, which included a debut with the Vienna Philharmonic, and the ECHO Klassik as "up-and-coming artist of the year."
Composer's Artistic Vision
Mendelssohn grew to detest the success of his Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words) and the proliferation of similar pieces by other composers, calling them "rubbish."
Performer Biography
Philippe Herreweghe, the conductor, studied medicine and psychiatry at university and piano at the Music Academy in Ghent, before establishing himself as a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque music.
Composer Biography
The Royal Philharmonic Society in London compared Mendelssohn's combined talent in composition and piano skill, remarkable memory, and improvisatory ability to Mozart's.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, a piano virtuoso himself, found composing for the piano challenging and confessed it was "not the greatest of pleasure" for him.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Mendelssohn expressed skepticism about his own piano compositions, particularly his Rondo brillant, Op. 29, fearing a lack of "novel twists and turns."
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