Fritz Spindler: Rheinländer, Op. 294 No. 6

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2018 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays the final piece of 'Libellen - Elegante Tanzweisen' (Dragonflies - elegant dance melodies)  from 1876 by the prolific German composer Fritz Spindler  (1817-1905).
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The German composer Fritz Spindler (1817-1905) initially intended to become a cleric, but turned to music and studied piano in Dessau, and subsequently settled in Dresden in 1841 where he worked as a teacher and composer.  He wrote symphonies, chamber music and a piano concerto as well as the salon music and educational sonatinas for which he is slightly remembered today.  A Rheinländer is a Swabian country pairs dance from the mid-19th century, similar to a Schottisch.  This is the first piano Rheinländer I have come across, but there must be others.  My thumbnail shows some modern Rheinländer dancers from a German folk-dance group based in Oberstaufen: https://goo.gl/Dyt8RL .
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