Dmitri Bortniansky - works for piano

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feel like classical (common practice period classical, not the broad general term) doesn't seem to get a lot of love and when it does it's Moazrt, this, Haydn that, Beethoven, etc. Nothing wrong per se (though those topics are far and few between). And my keen interest in Ukraine piano music, slavic composers (predecessors to Kosenko etc).

So I like the alternative Bortniansky presents, similar to electing to play Clementi, etc.

Don't recall there being a topic on this lately.

Anyone else familiar w the composer and pieces also a fan? Have you performed/studied it some works and have any insight or favorite features to share?

ie

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DMITRY STEPANOVICH BORTNIANSKY  
(1751 - 1825)

Dmitry Bortniansky was born in Ukraine, grew up singing in the choir of the Russian Imperial court, studied composition in Italy, and later became the first native Slavic Kapellmeister to the czars. He was, by all accounts, a consummate choral director and highly successful composer. During his directorship of the Imperial Court Chapel, the choir performed not only his music and that of his contemporaries in St Petersburg but also Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, and, most notably, the world première of Beethoven’s virtuosic Missa solemnis. Because his singers were trained to sing a cappella motets, large-scale choral-orchestral works, and opera alike, Bortniansky’s choir had a varied sound unique to all of Europe. In his own music for the Orthodox church, which forbids the use of instruments, Bortniansky incorporated a symphonic approach to the a cappella choral medium. The flexible grouping and alternation of solo and tutti voices that he developed in the choral concertos influenced the works of all later Slavic composers.

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feel like classical (common practice period classical, not the broad general term) doesn't seem to get a lot of love and when it does it's Moazrt, this, Haydn that, Beethoven, etc. Nothing wrong per se (though those topics are far and few between). And my keen interest in Ukraine piano music, slavic composers (predecessors to Kosenko etc).

So I like the alternative Bortniansky presents, similar to electing to play Clementi, etc.

Don't recall there being a topic on this lately.

Anyone else familiar w the composer and pieces also a fan? Have you performed/studied it some works and have any insight or favorite features to share?

ie

bio
DMITRY STEPANOVICH BORTNIANSKY  
(1751 - 1825)

Dmitry Bortniansky was born in Ukraine, grew up singing in the choir of the Russian Imperial court, studied composition in Italy, and later became the first native Slavic Kapellmeister to the czars. He was, by all accounts, a consummate choral director and highly successful composer. During his directorship of the Imperial Court Chapel, the choir performed not only his music and that of his contemporaries in St Petersburg but also Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, and, most notably, the world première of Beethoven’s virtuosic Missa solemnis. Because his singers were trained to sing a cappella motets, large-scale choral-orchestral works, and opera alike, Bortniansky’s choir had a varied sound unique to all of Europe. In his own music for the Orthodox church, which forbids the use of instruments, Bortniansky incorporated a symphonic approach to the a cappella choral medium. The flexible grouping and alternation of solo and tutti voices that he developed in the choral concertos influenced the works of all later Slavic composers.

I'm familiar because like one year ago I was interested in early Russian piano/keyboard music.

It sucks that he wrote so many harpsichord sonatas but only 1 of them is on IMSLP

Ive never studied his works though, and I prefer Haydn because there is more information on him