Ignaz Moscheles - Piano Concerto No.4 Op.64

Ian Hobson Piano and Conductor / Sinfonia da Camara
00:00 Allegro maestoso
14:58 Adagio
20:33 Rondo
Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870) was a Bohemian Composer and Pianist. Ignaz developed an early passion for the (then revolutionary) piano music of Beethoven, which the Mozartean Bedřich Diviš Weber, his teacher at the Prague Conservatory, attempted to curb, urging him to focus on Bach, Mozart and Muzio Clementi. He also studied later in Vienna with Albrechtsberger and Salieri. During his time in Vienna he wrote his then most popular work, Alexander Variations Op.32 for Piano and Orchestra.

Moscheles was also familiar with Hummel and Kalkbrenner. Moscheles was also familiar with Hummel and Kalkbrenner. Among the virtuosi of the 1820s, Hummel, Kalkbrenner, Cramer, Herz and Weber were his most famous rivals.
While in Vienna, Moscheles was able to meet his idol Beethoven, who was so impressed with the young man's abilities that he entrusted him with the preparation of the piano score of his opera Fidelio, commissioned by his publisher Artaria.

It was after hearing Moscheles play at Carlsbad that the boy Robert Schumann was fired to become a piano virtuoso himself. His Piano Concerto No.3 had its Warsaw Premiere under 16 years old Chopin in 1826.
Felix Mendelssohn was a student of Moscheles.
Among his 142 opus numbers, Moscheles wrote a number of symphonic works. Apart from an overture, a ballet and a symphony, all are scored for piano and orchestra: eight piano concertos (of which the last is in fragmentary form only, no orchestral parts having survived) and sets of variations and fantasias on folk songs. Moscheles also left several chamber works (including a piano trio that has been recorded), and a large number of works for piano solo, including sonatas and the études that continued to be studied by advanced students even as Moscheles's music fell into eclipse. Chopin's 3 Nouvelle Etudes were contribution to Moscheles's Méthode des méthodes de piano. There is no copyright infringement intended. If you wish your recording to be removed, it can be done, please just leave me an email, which can be found at the channel's about section.