Moritz Moszkowski's performing career as a pianist was severely restricted due to neuropathy in his arms, which led him to focus more on composition and conducting.
Composer Biography
Moritz Moszkowski taught notable pianists like Vlado Perlemuter, Josef Hofmann, and Wanda Landowska, and even gave orchestration lessons to a young Thomas Beecham.
Performer Biography
Ian Hobson, the conductor and pianist on this album, won First Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 1981 and has recorded over sixty albums.
Composer Biography
At just 17, Moritz Moszkowski joined the teaching staff of Theodor Kullak's renowned Neue Akademie der Tonkunst in Berlin, where he had also studied.
Composition History
Moritz Moszkowski's ballet Laurin, based on the Middle High German epic 'King Laurin's Rose Garden', tells the story of a struggle between the hero Dietrich von Bern and Laurin, King of the Dwarfs.
Composer Biography
Moritz Moszkowski, born in 1854, came from a wealthy Polish-Jewish family that had settled in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland).
Historical Context
Moritz Moszkowski lost his fortune due to unwise investments in German, Austrian, and Russian securities that became valueless after World War I and the Russian Revolution.
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