More The Piano Etude: From Practice to Art

Programme maker/presenter Thijs Bonger continues with his journey through music history, in search for piano etudes. An hour full of piano music that you can hear seldom or never. Already part XIX of this series, in which we go on a journey to the 19th century Italy, to Bolonga to be precise. Stefano Golinelli(1818-1891) did well in the circus of clavier lions who scoured Europe around 1850. Schumann called him ‘an unexpected sign of life from opera-country Italy’.

Programme maker/presenter Thijs Bonger continues his journey through music history, in search for piano etudes. An hour full of piano etudes that you rarely or seldom hear.

The Piano Etude, from Practice to Art – Part XVII In part XVII of the etude series we will continue with the life-story and the music of Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952), victim of history. He was often in the wrong place at the wrong time. Somebody once told him: But your life was very interesting and varied! He answered: Interesting to read about maybe, but not to live it, young friend.

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