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
1 I. Allegro molto 05:56
2 II. Cantabile 07:15
3 III. Rondeau: Presto 03:35
Piano Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 1, No. 2, P. XII:9
4 I. Allegro 06:36
5 II. Poco adagio 05:26
6 III. Allegro 03:47
Piano Sonata in D Major, Op. 1, No. 3, P. XII:10
7 I. Allegro con brio 05:36
8 II. Poco adagio 06:52
9 III. Rondeau: Prestissimo 03:43
Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 2, No. 1, P. XII:11
10 I. Allegro 07:16
11 II. Adagio 04:54
12 III. Allegretto scherzando 03:52
