Lekeu: Complete Piano Works

The most complete set of Lekeu’s piano music ever recorded, demonstrating the full range of genius cut off in his prime. 🎵 Purchase or streaming (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Naxos, Presto): 💎 More Information: 🎬🎮 These tracks are available for sync licensing in videos, films, tv-shows, games, advertising and more. For more information and to request a license go to: Composer: Guillaume Lekeu Artist: Jacopo Salvatori (piano) Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894) was born in Veviers, Belgium. He studied music and philosophy in Paris. A visit to Bayreuth brought him under the spell of the music of Richard Wagner. Upon his return he took lessons with César Franck, who was his mentor and greatest music inspiration. Lekeu was one of the foremost talents of his generation and his tragically early death at age 24 of typhoid fever robbed music history of a great promise. Lekeu was a prolific composer already as a teenager, and he left a considerable amount of music, including a whole repertory of piano pieces. Claude Debussy, introducing his “unfinished Quartet for piano and strings” in 1896, wrote “[..] Yes, there is a Belgian school. Next to Franck, Lekeu is one of its most remarkable representatives, this Lekeu, the only musician to my knowledge whom Beethoven really inspired”. Also, the Boston Herald wrote: “Lekeu’s voice was his own. His music is not like that of other men; he thought in his own way and his emotional eloquence in the quartet is genuine and convincing…”. Only a few of his piano works have been published: the monumental Piano Sonata in G minor, the Trois Pièces and a Mazurka. All other works on these two CDs have been gathered in manuscript from various libraries, including fugues, character pieces and a series of Morceaux égoïstes. Jacopo Salvatori is composer and pianist. He studied piano and composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Jacopo’s recent activity includes two operas, premiered at Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam and Theater an der Wien. He recorded the complete piano works by Debussy, Etudes by Glass and Mendelssohn’s Lieder Ohne Worte. 👉 Social media links: Facebook: Spotify: Brilliant Classics: Facebook: Spotify: Instagram: TikTok: Tracklist: 3 Pieces, : 0:00:00 I. Chansonette sans paroles 0:01:45 II. Valse oubliée 0:05:32 III. Danse joyeuse (dans le style des chansons populaires) 0:09:09 Berceuse, Piano Sonata in G Minor, : 0:11:21 I. Prélude (Très modéré) 0:13:35 II. Fugue 1 0:21:06 III. Fugue 2 0:24:44 IV. Dans un mouvement plus lent 0:30:02 V. Finale Pot-pourri, (Intermède comique): 0:33:31 I. Berceuse 0:36:00 II. Valse 0:38:30 Andantino semplice e molto espressivo, 0:39:17 Tempo di mazurka, Morceaux égoïstes, livre 2: 0:49:23 I. Allegro marcato, 0:51:06 II. Andante, 0:54:10 III. Andantino malinconico, 0:57:37 IV. Andante, 1:00:37 V. Andante, pour moi seul (manuscript), 1:05:03 Andante religioso col più grand’espressione, 1:09:41 Morceaux égoïstes, livre 1: IV. Lento doloroso, 1:21:13 Moderato quasi largo, 1:29:44 Pastorale (manuscript) 1:30:21 Fuga (manuscript) Spotify Playlists: Most Popular Piano Classics: Top 50 Rachmaninoff: Best Piano Music: Peaceful and Relaxing Piano Music: Beautiful Piano Nocturnes: Thank you for watching this video by Brilliant Classics, we hope you enjoyed it! Don’t forget to like and share the video and subscribe to our channel. And visit our channel for more of the greatest composers. We upload daily with complete albums and compilations with the best classical music. #Lekeu #Complete #Piano #Works #Music #PianoMusic #PianoClassics #ClassicalMusic #ClassicalPiano #BrilliantClassics