Alles Gute zum Geburtstag Norbert Burgmüller! 🎻🍻
Composer: Norbert Burgmüller (1810-1836)
Work: Zweite Sinfonie (D-Dur), Op.11 (c.1835) (Scherzo finished by Robert Schumann)
Performers: Concerto Köln; David Stеrn (conductor)
Zweite Sinfonie (c.1835)
1. Allegro moderato 0:00
2. Andante 13:59
3. Scherzo 24:42
Painting: Gustave Wappers (1803-1874) - Episode of the September Days of 1830 (1835)
HD image: https://flic.kr/p/2qKh7R7
Further info: https://rism.online/sources/1001087698
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(August Joseph) Norbert Burgmüller [Burgmiller]
(Düsseldorf, 8 February 1810 - Aachen, 7 May 1836)
German composer and pianist. Son of Johann August Franz Burgmüller (1766-1824) and brother of Friedrich Burgmüller (1806-1874), he was a child prodigy who began composing at an early age. He received training from his father, and in Kassel with Ludwig Spohr and Moritz Hauptmann. During these years he made frequent appearances as a pianist and composer. In 1831 he came back to Düsseldorf hoping to obtain, unsuccessfully, a permanent appointment there. He was suffering very frequent epileptic fits at this time, and his decline in social status began, remaining in contact with only a few close friends including the poet Christian Dietrich Grabbe. As a composer, he wrote two symphonies, (the second one unfinished), a Piano concerto, chamber music, piano pieces and songs. Burgmüller's compositions attracted an increasing amount of attention, and won the approval of Felix Mendelssohn, who performed his first symphony. But his social situation remained insecure, and he was considering moving to Paris when he died of an epileptic fit while staying at Aachen. In an impassioned obituary, Robert Schumann wrote: ‘Since the early death of Franz Schubert, nothing more deplorable has happened than that of Burgmüller’, and a funeral march composed by Mendelssohn himself accompanied him to the grave.