Moritz Moszkowski: Complete Music for Solo Piano, Vol. II

Featuring

Ian Hobson
Moritz Moszkowski

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Composer Biography

Moszkowski's later years were spent in poverty after he unwisely invested his fortune in German and Russian securities that became valueless during World War I and the Russian Revolution.

Composer Biography

Moritz Moszkowski, the composer, came from a wealthy Polish-Jewish family that settled in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) in 1854, the year of his birth.

Performer Biography

Ian Hobson, the pianist on this recording, won First Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 1981 and has recorded the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven and Schumann.

Composition History

Moszkowski's 'Serenata', Op. 15, No. 1, was his first piano solo to achieve early popularity, leading to nearly thirty different published arrangements.

Composer Biography

Moszkowski married Henriette, the youngest sister of the well-known French pianist and composer Cécile Chaminade, in 1884.

Composer Biography

After suffering from neuropathy in his arms, Moszkowski restricted his performing activities as a pianist and devoted more time to composition, teaching, and conducting.

Composer Biography

Moszkowski began his formal musical education in Dresden in 1865 and later advanced his studies in Berlin at Julius Stern's Conservatorium and Theodor Kullak's Neue Akademie der Tonkunst.