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Browse piano sheets by Friedrich Burgmüller on Zen Virtual Piano. Friedrich Burgmüller was born in Ratisbon, then part of the Principality of Regensburg in the Confederation of the Rhine. His father, Friedrich August Burgmüller, and his younger brother Norbert Burgmüller were also composers, and his mother, Therese von Zandt, was a pianist and singer. He moved to Kassel in 1829 to study with Ludwig Spohr and Moritz Hauptmann, and appeared there as a pianist in his first concert on January 14, 1830. A first concert given as a pianist suggests that performance was part of his training. In 1832, at 26, he moved to Paris, where he stayed until his death. In Paris he adopted Parisian music and developed his trademark light style of playing, writing many pieces of salon music for the piano and publishing several albums. He is perhaps best known for his three collections of children’s études, or teaching pieces, for the piano, particularly his Op. 100, the 25 Études faciles et progressives (25 Easy and Progressive Studies) for early intermediate students. The other two, the 12 Études, Op. 105, and the 18 Études, Op. 109, are more advanced. A set of studies pitched at early intermediate students, with two more advanced sets beside it, suggests a body of work that grows along with the player. Burgmüller composed piano pieces, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises and two ballets, among them Murmures du Rhône, Op. 66, Corbeille de roses, Op. 68, Fleurs mélodiques, Op. 82, the Fantaisie brillante sur “Ernani” de Verdi, Op. 92, Blaue Äuglein, Op. 93, and Les Étincelles, Op. 97. Titles naming the Rhône, roses and sparks, as in Murmures du Rhône, Corbeille de roses and Les Étincelles, suggest a composer who gave his works pictures to carry. His Peasant Pas de Deux was added to Adolphe Adam’s ballet Giselle for its 1841 premiere; the music was originally titled Souvenirs de Ratisbonne. A piece added to another composer’s ballet suggests that his reputation in Paris reached beyond the piano. He also published three nocturnes for violin or cello with guitar, Les murmures de la Rhône, and songs with guitar accompaniment.
Browse piano sheets by Friedrich Burgmüller on Zen Virtual Piano.
Friedrich Burgmüller was born in Ratisbon, then part of the Principality of Regensburg in the Confederation of the Rhine. His father, Friedrich August Burgmüller, and his younger brother Norbert Burgmüller were also composers, and his mother, Therese von Zandt, was a pianist and singer.
He moved to Kassel in 1829 to study with Ludwig Spohr and Moritz Hauptmann, and appeared there as a pianist in his first concert on January 14, 1830. A first concert given as a pianist suggests that performance was part of his training. In 1832, at 26, he moved to Paris, where he stayed until his death. In Paris he adopted Parisian music and developed his trademark light style of playing, writing many pieces of salon music for the piano and publishing several albums.
He is perhaps best known for his three collections of children’s études, or teaching pieces, for the piano, particularly his Op. 100, the 25 Études faciles et progressives (25 Easy and Progressive Studies) for early intermediate students. The other two, the 12 Études, Op. 105, and the 18 Études, Op. 109, are more advanced. A set of studies pitched at early intermediate students, with two more advanced sets beside it, suggests a body of work that grows along with the player.
Burgmüller composed piano pieces, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises and two ballets, among them Murmures du Rhône, Op. 66, Corbeille de roses, Op. 68, Fleurs mélodiques, Op. 82, the Fantaisie brillante sur “Ernani” de Verdi, Op. 92, Blaue Äuglein, Op. 93, and Les Étincelles, Op. 97. Titles naming the Rhône, roses and sparks, as in Murmures du Rhône, Corbeille de roses and Les Étincelles, suggest a composer who gave his works pictures to carry. His Peasant Pas de Deux was added to Adolphe Adam’s ballet Giselle for its 1841 premiere; the music was originally titled Souvenirs de Ratisbonne. A piece added to another composer’s ballet suggests that his reputation in Paris reached beyond the piano. He also published three nocturnes for violin or cello with guitar, Les murmures de la Rhône, and songs with guitar accompaniment.
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His three collections of children’s études for piano, particularly the Op. 100 25 Études faciles et progressives for early intermediate students.
His Peasant Pas de Deux, originally titled Souvenirs de Ratisbonne, was added to Adolphe Adam’s ballet for its 1841 premiere.
In 1832, at age 26; he stayed there until his death.