Popper - Mazuka (C-Dur, Op. 51) für Violoncello und Klavier by Árpád Pejtsik / Editio Musica Budapest / Z. 13634 / Violoncello/23 / Moments Musicaux / Gordonka Sorozat

Közreadta Pejtsik Árpád

Z. 13634

PAGES: 7

PUBLISHER: Editio Musica Budapest

LANGUAGE: German 

ISBN 9790080136348 / 979-0080136348

Made in Hungary

The series Moments Musicaux contains popular and well-known short masterpieces and transcriptions. An admitted aim of the publisher was to release high-standard editions of these popular pieces for a moderate price. Each piece of the series may be performed on violoncello solo with piano accompaniment.

David Popper (June 16, 1843 – August 7, 1913) was a Bohemian cellist and composer.

Popper was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory. His family was Jewish. He studied the cello under Julius Goltermann (1825–1876), and soon attracted attention. He made his first tour in 1863; in Germany he was praised by Hans von Bülow, son-in-law of Franz Liszt, who recommended him as Chamber Virtuoso in the court of Prince von Hohenzollern-Hechingen in Löwenberg. In 1864, he premiered Robert Volkmann's Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 33, with Hans von Bülow conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. He lost this job a couple of years later due to the prince's death.

Popper was a prolific composer of cello music, writing four concertos, a Requiem for three cellos and orchestra (1891) and a number of smaller pieces which are still played today, including the solo piece Tarantella. His shorter showpieces were written to highlight the unique sound and style of the cello, extending the instrument's range with pieces such as Spinnlied (Spinning Song), Elfentanz (Dance of the Elves), or the Ungarische Rhapsodie (Hungarian Rhapsody), which was published by the Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag.^[9] He also wrote instructional pieces. Popper is also known for his High School of Cello Playing (Op. 73), a book of cello études that is widely used by advanced cello students.

An old edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians described him thus: "His tone is large and full of sentiment; his execution highly finished, and his style classical."

Op. 51, Six Mazurkas, cello and piano

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