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Adolf Jensen: 25 Etüden, Op.32: 15 - Con moto, tranquillamente (D♭ major)

1,509 views · Published 26 February 2017 · 2:23 · Indexed 27 October 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2017 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays one of a set of 25 studies from 1866 by the German composer Adolf Jensen.
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Jensen (1837–79) was a Prussian composer who specialised in songs and piano music, sadly dying young from tuberculosis in Baden. He was a huge admirer of Wagner, and his piano works can be thought of as a lovely individual blend of Schumann and Wagner (think the Wagner of the Siegfried-Idyll). Some of his pieces even hint at the early songs of Richard Strauss with their wonderfully ecstatic writing. His 25 studies from 1866 are described as 'preliminary studies for works of the new school'. The piano techniques he explores draw more on Beethoven and Schumann rather than Liszt. The whole set is musically fascinating, and I believe it's one of the few sets of shorter 19th-century studies that would work brilliantly if played complete in recital.  

This study has the character of a 'song without words'.

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