Antoni Kątski - Selected Pieces for Piano

Описание: 00:00 Variations sur la Cracovienne Op.45 (Marek Bracha)
10:49 Mazurka from "Polonaise and Six Mazurkas" Op.44 No.1 (Takashi Hayashikawa)
12:55 Les Ruines de Hapsal Op.174 (Dario Gatto)
16:12 Meditation No.3 "Le mal du pays" from 3 Mediations Op.42 (Slawomir Dobrzanski)
22:11 Mazurka Op.132 (Łukasz Chrzęszczyk)
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Also known as Anton or Antoine de Kontski (1816-1899) was a Polish Composer and Pianist. Anton was a student of John Field in Moscow and a child prodigy. He also studied composition with Simon Sechter and piano with Sigismond Thalberg in Vienna.
In 1845, in Paris, he performed in a concert at the Czartoryski salon together with Chopin. In the years 1851–1853, Kontski resided in Berlin, where he served as the court pianist to the King of Prussia. He spent 13 and 16 years in Saint Petersburg and London respectively. He settled in the United States in 1883 and was naturalized in 1892.

He was also something of a showman: he advertised himself as the only living pupil of Beethoven and used to play at least one piece in each concert with his hands under a folded blanket placed on the keyboard. In 1896, when de Kontski was visiting pianist with the Wellington Orchestral Society in New Zealand, the conductor Alfred Hill resigned in protest at this trick, which he considered charlatanry.

Two years before his death he embarked on a world tour, giving concerts in California, Macau, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Thailand, the Philippines, Persia, and many provinces of the Russian Empire. He was the first classical pianist to give concerts in the Philippines. He was also the first musician to transcribe Azerbaijani folk music into Western notation

His sister Eugenia (b. 1816) was a singer; brother Stanislaw (b. 1820) a pianist who taught piano in Paris and composed salon pieces; brother Apolinary (1825–1879) a virtuoso violinist, composer and teacher who debuted at age five at the St. Petersburg court, studied with Paganini, toured Europe, and finally settled in Warsaw where in 1860 he founded the Music Institute; and brother Karol (1815–1867), violinist and composer, member of the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
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