New. Four Hands On Stage - Opera and Symphony Conceived For the Keyboard
Stephanie McCallum, Erin Helyard (1832 Erard piano)
New. Four Hands On Stage - Opera and Symphony Conceived For the Keyboard
Stephanie McCallum, Erin Helyard (1832 Erard piano)
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In the days before recorded sound, people usually learned their orchestral music at home, playing it in piano transcriptions for two or four hands. Two German-Jewish composers took that idea a stage further: Ignaz Moscheles, protégé of Beethoven, wrote a symphony for four hands at a single keyboard, and Ferdinand Hiller, friend of Berlioz, Chopin and Liszt, went a step further yet, following Moscheles’ symphony without an orchestra with an opera without singers – both works bold genre-busters well before the term had even been invented.
