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Henry Ketten: Mélancolie, Op.33 No.3

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

Phillip Sear plays an impassioned evocation of melancholy from an 1878 set of 'Romances sans paroles' (Songs without words) by the Hungarian-born French pianist and composer Henry Ketten (1848-1883)
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Henry Ketten (1848-83) was born in Hungary, but moved to Poznań with his parents at 6 months old. He was a remarkable child prodigy, apparently playing a Hummel concertino with orchestra before he was 7 years old. He was taken to visit Liszt, who would not teach him as he was too young, but Liszt's son-in-law Hans von Bülow taught him for ten months, after which he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at the age of just 8. At 10 years old he performed Beethoven's 'Emperor' concerto, and at 11 conducted a performance of a cantata he had written. He embarked on concert tours throughout Europe (he played for Queen Victoria at Osborne House in 1860) Egypt and Turkey (he was made conductor of the Constantinople Opera at 19) and also visited the USA (1879) and Australia (1880). By 32 he had written over 100 works. He suffered from persistent ill health in his later years, and died in Paris after returning there hastily from St. Petersburg, where he had planned to tour Russia at the behest of Anton Rubinstein. This piece shows considerable depth of feeling, and achieves a dramatic climax in its middle section.

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Henry Ketten: Mélancolie, Op.33 No.3

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