Wolf Harden - Franz Lehár: Piano Sonatas (2000)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:13:45 | 250 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 999 715-2
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:13:45 | 250 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 999 715-2
Musical institutions have their funny ideas, and the quirk of the Prague Conservatoire in the 1880s was that if you were an instrumentalist you couldn't be a composer, too (evidently no one had told them about Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin et al). At his father's insistence Léhar was enrolled as a violinist, but his real interest lay in composition. He took a few secret lessons from Fibich and had the opportunity to play his D minor sonata to Dvorak, who urged him to give up the violin and switch to the composition classes. But Léhar senior was adamant and Lèhar is to be considered as practically a self-taught composer.