John Orth: Gavotte (F# minor)

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2017 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a not-particularly-Baroque gavotte by the German-American composer John Orth (1850-1932).
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The composer, pianist and organist John Orth (1850-1932) was born in Bavaria, but emigrated to the USA as a baby.  He returned to Germany for his music study, where his impressive list of teachers included Liszt, Kullak and Philipp Scharwenka.  Back in America he lived and taught piano in Boston (including a spell at the New England Conservatory), and lectured on his experiences at Liszt's classes in Weimar.  This piece has no opus number, and Orth only seems to have reached Op. 15 in 1905, so a lot of his early works may have been published without opus numbers.
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