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Fingals Hohle Fingal's Cave by Johann Kaspar Mertz

Biografie van de kunstenaar Johann Kaspar Mertz

Johann Kaspar Mertz August 17 1806 - October 14 1856 Was A Hungarian Guitarist And Composer. János Gáspár Mertz Was Born In Pozsony Hungary. He Was Active In Vienna C.1840~1856 Which Had Been Home To Various Prominent Figures Of The Guitar Including Anton Diabelli Mauro Giuliani Wenceslaus Matiegka And Simon Franz Molitor. A Virtuoso He Established A Solid Reputation As A Performer. He Toured Moravia Poland And Russia And Gave Performances In Berlin And Dresden. In 1846 Mertz Nearly Died Of An Overdose Of Strychnine That Had Been Prescribed To Him As A Treatment For Neuralgia. Over The Following Year He Was Nursed Back To Health In The Presence His Wife A Concert Pianist Josephine Plantin Whom He Married In 1842. Some Speculation May Lead One To The Conclusion That Listening To His Wife Performing The Romantic Piano Pieces Of The Day During His Period Of Recovery May Have Had An Influence On The Sound And Unusual Right Hand Technique He Adopted For The Bardenklange Bardic Sounds Op.13. Mertz's Guitar Music Unlike That Of Most Of His Contemporaries Followed The Pianistic Models Of Chopin Mendelssohn Schubert And Schumann Rather Than The Classical Models Of Mozart And Haydn As Did Sor And Aguado Or The Bel Canto Style Of Rossini As Did Giuliani . The Bardenklänge 1847 Are Probably Mertz's Most Important Contribution To The Guitar Repertoire—a Series Of Deceptively Difficult Character Pieces In The Mould Of Schumann.

THUIS JOHANN KASPAR MERTZ
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