Franz Behr : Mélancolie (Pensée élégiaque), Op. 233
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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music
Phillip Sear plays a short evocation of sadness in the style of a nocturne by the German composer Franz Behr (1837-1898) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Franz Behr (1837-1898) was a prolific German composer of salon music, and is best known today for the polka which forms the basis of Rachmaninov's 'Polka de W.R.'. He also wrote under various pseudonyms, including 'Charles Godard'. He had reached Op. 200 by 1870, and went on to write works with opus numbers in the high 600's. This piece was published in 1870, and it grabs the attention by the unusual modulation in its very first phrase, which sets it apart from the thousands of generic pieces in similar style that appeared in the mid-19th century. My thumbnail shows a detail from 'Melancholy' (1894) by Edvard Munch. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk (Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: http://wa.me/441444483794 ) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pianogems
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