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Van Swieten Society - Early Romantic Piano Quartets by Hummel, Ries & Schubert - (Van Swieten Society) - [CD]

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  • Release Date 2026-01-30
  • Language English
  • Label Brilliant Classics
  • Actor/Artist Van Swieten Society
  • No. of Disc 1

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Romanticism had many faces. Mozart's spirit still floated through musical life, and Beethoven's mighty music set the benchmark for every Romantic composer. Mozart's legacy was carried forward by two great pianists: Hummel, a pupil of Mozart, and Ries, a pupil of Beethoven. They each steered Romanticism in a different direction. Newspapers across Europe wrote of the 'wild Romanticism' of the bohemian Ries, now seen as a forerunner of Schumann. Meanwhile, the virtuoso Hummel enchanted and astonished his audiences. Around 1815, at the time of the Congress of Vienna, he was the most famous pianist in the world, and Liszt was crazy about his music.