Ferdinand Ries was just one among many once-famous and significant composers who had the misfortune of occupying the same chronological space as Ludwig van Beethoven. The personal association between Ries and Beethoven was particularly close; he was also born in Bonn and Ries' father was one of Beethoven's music teachers. A child prodigy, Ries' ...
Ferdinand Ries was Beethoven's student and an early biographer, criticized by his teacher for imitating him too closely. As flutist and annotator John Herrick Littlefield noted in the booklet for this group of flute quartets, Ries probably took the criticism as a compliment. These quartets were written late in Ries' life, during his retirement in ...
For fans of short character pieces for violin and piano, this recording of violinist Janos Mate and pianist Benjamin Rawitz certainly offers a varied selection. The album is subtitled "From Schumann to Gershwin" and offers 19 tracks by composers ranging from the well-known to the little-known. Not to be confused with a CD of encores or show pieces ...
Ferdinand Ries was one of the few real protégés of the loner Beethoven. Beethoven's influence certainly shows in the piano music here, written during the first decade of the nineteenth century. The early to middle transitional Beethoven provided the models for Ries; anyone expecting an undiscovered "Waldstein" Sonata will naturally enough be ...
If you need a break from Beethoven and want a vacation from Schubert, if you're tired of Kalkbrenner and had enough Hummel, if you like the high Classical, early Romantic, and late Imperial style and have heard everybody else, try Ries. Ferdinand Ries (1784-1837), Beethoven's pupil, secretary, and amanuensis, was an especially talented if not a ...
Ferdinand Ries was a slightly younger contemporary of Beethoven and even studied piano with him for a time. Like Beethoven, Ries took composition with Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. The resemblance of Ries' music to Beethoven's own was so close that Beethoven himself once complained about it. Nevertheless, as CPO's Ferdinand Ries: Piano Trios makes ...
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