Koželuch: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 1 - Kemp English

Few composers exemplified the late eighteenth-century Viennese keyboard style better than Mozart’s contemporary, the Czech composer Leopold Koželuch. A leading performer and teacher, he was even offered Mozart’s former post as court organist to the Archbishop of Salzburg. Preferring instead to preserve his independence, he produced over four decades, a series of major sonatas for fortepiano and harpsichord worthy to stand beside those of Haydn, Mozart, Clementi and Dussek, and as a precursor to those of Beethoven. This is the first volume of the complete recording of Koželuch’s 50 keyboard sonatas.

This recording was made on a period instrument: Fortepiano by Thomas and Barbara Wolf (USA), after Anton Walter (c. 1795)

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Koželuch, Leopold

 Piano Sonata in F Major, Op. 1, No. 1, P. XII:8

 Piano Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 1, No. 2, P. XII:9

 Piano Sonata in D Major, Op. 1, No. 3, P. XII:10

 Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 2, No. 1, P. XII:11