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Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso (1794-1870), whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire. During his time in Vienna, Moscheles became good friends with Beethoven, making piano arrangements of many of his compositions, including Fidelio. Impressive AMQS by Ignaz Moscheles on an off-white 11.25 x 8.5 sheet of music paper bordered with an attractive green design of leafwork and instruments, signed and inscribed below in crisp black ink, “Au Domenico Barnett….I. Moscheles, Leipzig, 23d. Sept. 1861,” with the composer adding eight bars of music from a piano score, which Moscheles has entitled along the top as being a fragment of “4th Concerto,” assuredly his 1823 work, ‘Op.64 - Piano Concerto No.4 in E major.’ Affixed to a same-size backing sheet and in fine condition.
Moscheles composed his Piano Concerto No. 4 in E major, Op 64, between March and June 1823 during his third visit to England. He gave the first performance in London on 16 June, and played it during his tour of German cities in the autumn and also on his return to Vienna in November. Bearing a dedication to Empress Caroline Auguste of Austria, it is the last of the virtuoso concertos of his touring years, before the increasing bias towards expressive and innovatory musical ideas in his later concertos. Although Mozart and (especially) Beethoven can be heard as primary inspirations, there is a great deal of forward-looking writing which surely points to the concerto’s being, in turn, a specific inspiration for Chopin’s E minor Concerto, composed in 1830.
The recipient, Domenico Dragonetti Joseph Barnett (1839-1911), was the son of composer John Barnett, who was named after his godfather, the great classical bassist, Domenico Dragonetti, the musical partner of Domenico's renowned cellist grandfather, Robert Lindley. In addition to being a gifted amateur artist, specializing in watercolors, Domenico was a musician who worked for many years as a piano teacher at Cheltenham Ladies College.
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