Smosh - The Albums Done [Outro]

MOSHKOVSKY (Moszkowski) Mauracy (Moritz) (23 VIII 1854, Wroclaw - 4 III 1925, Paris) - Polish pianist, teacher, composer. Ch. Berlin Academy of Arts (since 1899). The son of a music teacher. He studied in Dresden, then studied in the class of fp. with T. Kullack at the Stern and Kullack Conservatories in Berlin; in the last (after graduation) he taught fp. the game. Among the students - I. (Yu.) Hoffmann. Debuted in 1873 in Berlin. He toured in Paris, Warsaw, London, and performed as a conductor. From 1897 he lived in Paris. The pianist of the salon virtuoso direction (characteristic for the 2nd half of the 19th century), M., and how the Composer was known by ch. arr. masterly, outwardly spectacular salon conc. plays, among which the most popular stylized in nat. the spirit of "Spanish Dances" ("Tance hiszpanskie", 2 notebooks; written for the op. duet, then processed for the op.solo and for orchestra) In pedagogical practice, instructive op. - “15 virtuoso sketches” op. 72.