About Friedrich Kalkbrenner
Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner (7 November 1785–10 June 1849) was a German pianist and composer. Son of Christian Kalkbrenner (1755-1806), a musician of Cassel, Friedrich was educated at the Paris Conservatoire, and soon began to play in public. From 1814 to 1823 he was well known as a brilliant performer and a successful teacher in London, and then settled in Paris, dying at Enghien, near there, in 1849. As a teacher Kalkbrenner developed a piano playing technique that kept the musician's strength in the fingers and hands
Top Tracks
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 61: I. Allegro maestoso
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 61: II. Adagio di molto
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 61: III. Rondo. Vivace
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 61: III. Rondo vivace
Aus: "50 Veränderungen über einen Walzer von Anton Diabelli" (Wien, 1824): IV. Var. XVIII
25 Grandes Etudes, Op. 143: III. Presto in B-Flat Minor
25 Grandes Etudes, Op. 143: I. Leggiero e vivace in F Major
Var. 18 for Anton Diabelli's Waltz
Grande Marche, Orage & Polonaise, Op. 93
Nocturne, Op. 121: No. 1 in A-Flat Major "Les Soupirs de la Harpe Eolienne"
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