Carl Reinecke - Hausmusik, [18 pieces]

18 pieces which appeared in 3 books, published 1863. Noteworthy: They pretty much increase in difficulty. Skip to the last ones, if you want to see more challenging pieces. I tried to stick to the written tempo and to play according to the desired style, for example, the one from olden time, I tried to reduce the amount of pedaling and so on. Was more work than I expected :/ Anyhow, enjoy exploring these pieces, it was fun to explore them for me at least. 0:00 Grossmutter erzählt. Grandmother’s Story. 2:00 Geheimes. The Secret. 3:43 Aus fernen Zeiten. From the Olden Time. 4:51 Marsch. March. 7:32 Trost in Einsamkeit. Consolation in Loneliness. 10:07 Im Bivouac. In Camp. 11:03 Scherzo. Scherzo. 12:04 Romanze. Romance. 14:23 Canon. Canon. 15:50 Klage. Plaint. 17:24 Menuetto. Minuet. 19:53 Canzonetta. Canzonetta. 21:57 Ländler. Slow Waltz. 23:47 Bauernmarsch. Peasants’ March. 25:08 Toccatina. Toccatina. 27:01 Capriccietto. Capriccietto. 28:00 Jagdlied. Hunting-song. 29:06 “Ich hör’ meinen Schatz...“. “My sweetheart I hear...“. Carl Reinecke (1824 – 1910) was a German composer, conductor, and pianist in the Middle Romantic Era. At the age of 19, he undertook his first concert tour as a pianist in 1843, through Denmark and Sweden, after which he lived for a long time in Leipzig, where he studied under Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt; he entered into friendly relations with the former two. Reinecke is best known for his flute sonata “Undine“, but he is also remembered as one of the most influential and versatile musicians of his time. He served as a teacher for 35 years, until his retirement in 1902. His students included Edvard Grieg, Basil Harwood, Charles Villiers Stanford, Christian Sinding, Leoš Janáček, Constanta Erbiceanu, Isaac Albéniz, August Max Fiedler, Walter Niemann, Johan Svendsen, Richard Franck, Felix Weingartner, Max Bruch, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Ernest Hutcheson, Felix Fox, August Winding and many others [for the many others point, you can consult on your own the wikipedia article]. After retirement from the conservatory, Reinecke devoted his time to composition, resulting in almost three hundred published works. He wrote several operas (none of which are performed today) including König Manfred. During this time, he frequently made concert tours to England and elsewhere. His piano playing belonged to a school in which grace and neatness were characteristic, and at one time he was probably unrivalled as a Mozart player and an accompanist. In 1904 at the age of 80, he made recordings of seven works playing on piano roll for the Welte-Mignon company, making him the earliest-born pianist to have his playing preserved in any format. He subsequently made a further 14 for the Aeolian Company’s “Autograph Metrostyle“ piano roll visual marking system and an additional 20 for the Hupfeld DEA reproducing piano roll system. He died at 85 in Leipzig.