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Carl Heins : Im Dämmerlicht (Sérénade) Op. 106 No. 2

632 views · Published 19 March 2016 · 3:28 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays an interesting twilight serenade by the German composer Carl Heins (1859-1923).
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#2 from 3 Salonstücke (c. 1890).  Alternative title: "Crépuscule"
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About Carl Heins (1859-1923) I can find very little information except that he was German, wrote a lot of salon music, and had a hit with the song 'Zwei Dunkle Augen', which was recorded by the tenor Fritz Wunderlich. One of his other better-known pieces is 'Die Schwarzwälder Uhr' (the Black Forest clock). Stylistically his music is similar to that of his older compatriot Carl Böhm, and much of it sounds like the sort of music one might hear played on a zither in an Alpine inn.  The piano figurations suddenly turn into fast arpeggios towards the end of the piece, suggesting that the serenader was a little desperate to get his lover's attention.

Thumbnail image (of Budapest) by Daniel Olah on Unsplash ( https://tinyurl.com/y6dv34vg ).
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