Music and Arts' Anton Eberl: The Complete Sonatas for Solo Piano represents a triumph of dedicated scholarship on the part of fortepianist John Khouri that stretches back more than five decades. Intrigued with a piano sonata attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but not believed to be written by him, Khouri finally discovered that the sonata was the work of an alleged Mozart pupil, Anton Eberl, about whom little was known, but who did not outlive his master by even two decades. Once armed with this information, Khouri went ...
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Music and Arts' Anton Eberl: The Complete Sonatas for Solo Piano represents a triumph of dedicated scholarship on the part of fortepianist John Khouri that stretches back more than five decades. Intrigued with a piano sonata attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but not believed to be written by him, Khouri finally discovered that the sonata was the work of an alleged Mozart pupil, Anton Eberl, about whom little was known, but who did not outlive his master by even two decades. Once armed with this information, Khouri went on the hunt for whatever he could find of Eberl's major keyboard music, and Anton Eberl: The Complete Sonatas for Solo Piano is the result.One thing that is striking here is that Khouri has located a composer who is clearly a key transitional figure between classical and romantic keyboard music, easily the equal of Jan Ladislav Dussek and more forward thinking than Muzio Clementi. Khouri discovered in short measure that rather like Eberl's younger contemporary Joseph Wölfl -- who...
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