Heinrich von Herzogenberg - Cello Sonata #3 in E♭Major, Movement 1

Heinrich von Herzogenberg - Cello Sonata #3 in E♭Major Saiko Sasaki - Piano Claudius Herrmann - Cello ————————————————————————— Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg (10 June 1843 – 9 October 1900) was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family. He was born in Graz and was educated at a Jesuit school in Feldkirch and also in Munich, Dresden and Graz before studying law, philosophy and political science at the university of Vienna. He soon turned his energies to music and attended the composition classes of Felix Otto Dessoff until 1864. Early on he was attracted to the music of Richard Wagner, but after studying J. S. Bach’s works he became an adherent of the classical tradition and an advocate for the music of Brahms. In 1866 he married Elisabet von Stockhausen, who had been a piano pupil of Brahms; Brahms’s letters to and from both Herzogenbergs form one of the most delightful sections of his correspondence. They lived in G