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Maria Görres: Duettino, Op.6 No. 9

362 views · Published 2 February 2016 · 2:20 · Indexed 31 October 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

Phillip Sear plays a short piece by the remarkable German polymath, Maria Görres (later Maria Arndt) (1823–82).
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#9 from 'Bunte Reihen: kurzer Klavierstücke', Op.6 (1860)
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Maria Görres was born Maria Vespermann, the daughter of a German actor and his singer wife. Maria began performing at age 12, and also took up writing novels and plays for family use (rather like the Brontës in England). Maria married the writer Guido Görres in 1844, and (following his death in 1852) married Carl Arndt in 1860. As an adult, Maria continued writing novels and plays (including 'Mozart as Matchmaker' in 1869), and as a composer, wrote piano pieces and a song cycle. She was also an artist.

The set of pieces from which this comes are very much in the style of Mendelssohn's 'Lieder ohne Worte' (Görres was at the very least friends with people who knew Mendelssohn well), and show considerable mastery of that style. The awkward stretches and leaps in many of the pieces suggest that Görres had large or very flexible hands. This is one of three 'duettinos' in the set.
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Maria Görres: Duettino, Op.6 No. 9

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