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MAURICE MOSZKOWSKI
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Moszkowski in his study
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T. PRESSER CO., Phila.
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Born August 23, 1854.
Died March 8, 1925.
Maurice Moszkowski
BORN in
Breslau, Moszkowski may be described as
a cosmopolitan, both in his personality and in his
musical productions. Some of his work has not yet
received its due estimate. Himself a fine pianist, his
treatment of technical details in his piano compositions
displays an ingenuity of invention that, in this line,
places him in due succession to Chopin and Liszt. His
Concert Waltzes (in E, and in G flat), and his brilliant
Caprice Espagnole, are in proof of the foregoing.
But Moszkowski was par excellence one of the greatest
writers of piano pieces for four hands; the celebrated
Spanish Dances would prove this, had he produced
nothing further in the same line. But the characteristic
pieces, From Foreign Parts, are equally good, although
rather more difficult. These two sets of pieces have
been arranged for almost every instrumental combina-
tion under the sun.
Moszkowski, who was a pupil of three conservatories
(Dresden, Stern, and Kullak), was successful in some of
the larger forms of composition; his opera, Boabdil,
contains some fine numbers, notably the Malagueña;
his piano Concerto is heard frequently. He produced
a long array of popular piano pieces.
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From "Prelude and Fugue"
Maurice Mor Kort 17
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