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Duo sonatas

November 16, 2009

The sonatas that Johannes Moser and Paul Rivinius played in the Collegium Leonium during the Beethovenfest 2009 were all written by composers as musical declarations of friendship.

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Cellist Johannes Moser
Cellist Johannes MoserImage: Manfred Esser

The Cello Sonata by Alexander Zemlinsky, written in 1894, was rediscovered only a few years ago. Although is clearly influenced by Brahms, the sonata already prefigures 20th-century music. Zemlinsky, long overshadowed by his friends and fellow composers Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg, is stylistically somewhere between late romanticism and modernism. The composer said of himself: "I can wait; my time will come only after my death."

Program:

Alexander von Zemlinsky

Sonata for cello and piano in A minor

Performed by:

Johannes Moser, cello

Paul Rivinius, piano

Recorded by Deutsche Welle at the Collegium Leoninum, in Bonn, Germany on September 25, 2009.

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