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Rimsky-Korsakov / Beethoven: Piano Quintets / Berwald: Piano Quartet

3/31/1994, 9 Tracks, 1:14:48

Featuring

  • Eva Knardahl
  • Sanfrid Schön
  • Eric Anderson
  • Wincent Lindgren
  • Albert Linder
  • Eric Schleiffer
  • Gothenburg Wind Quintet
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Franz Berwald
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

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Composition History

Berwald's Quartet in E flat major, despite being marked as 'Œuvre 1', was not his first work approved for publication and was only published posthumously in 1943.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, a Russian composer, initially pursued a naval career, joining the Naval War School at age 12, despite growing up in a musical home.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Ludwig van Beethoven, at age seventeen, first visited Vienna in 1787 hoping to become a pupil of Mozart, but his plans were thwarted by his mother's illness.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Rimsky-Korsakov's Quintet in B flat major was written in 1876 for a competition sponsored by the Russian Society of Music, but it did not win any prizes.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Rimsky-Korsakov's genius for orchestration and texture was so significant that he preserved his knowledge in a book he wrote on the subject.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Franz Berwald, a Swedish composer, was self-taught in composition and also ran a massage institute and constructed orthopedic devices during his time in Berlin.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Beethoven's Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 16, was likely inspired by Mozart's Quintet, K.V.452, sharing the same key and instrumentation.

Source: Booklet

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