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Fritz Zierau: Deingedenken (Thinking of you)

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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#5 From 'Arabesken' (1892)
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Phillip Sear plays an expressive slow waltz by the German composer Fritz Zierau (1865-1931).
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It is great to see some pieces by Fritz Zierau becoming available on IMSLP in the 150th anniversary year of his birth.  Zierau was a prodigy, who wrote a string quartet at age 13, and went on to study music in Berlin and Magdeburg.  From 1904 he was a prominent musician in the German-Polish border town of Guben (now divided between the countries) where he conducted, composed, and taught singing.  As a composer, he seems best-known for his oratorios "Christus der Tröster" and "Jairos".  The beautiful set of arabesques published in a German musical journal makes one want to hear more of his work.  I'm not clear from the German title whether the thoughts are retrospective (like a tribute to someone in the composer's past) or current.

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