Louis Victor Saar: Capriccietto, Op.128 No.1

Описание: Phillip Sear plays a brilliant gem from 1932 by the Dutch pianist, composer and teacher Louis Victor Saar (1868-1937).
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Louis Victor Saar had a fascinating life. He studied with Rheinberger and Bussmeyer at the Munich conservatory and graduated in 1889. He then continued his studies in Vienna, Leipzig, and Berlin, including one winter with Brahms. Saar emigrated to the USA in 1894 and worked variously as a répétiteur, teacher at various conservatories (with early support from Dvorák), and composer and arranger. He wrote in many genres, but I am most familiar with his two piano arrangements of Bach pieces which, I think, had international popularity. I think it would be fascinating to trace the influence of American popular music on his compositions, the earliest of which were very Brahmsian. By the way, the last two or three bars of this are some of the hardest I have played on this channel owing to the incredibly difficult changes of hand position needed - fortunately they are marked 'pp'!
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