Robert Volkmann

Robert Volkmann was born in 1815 in Germany. His father was a musician too, and the young 12 years old Volkmann was already able to play Piano, Organ, Violin and Cello.

He traveled a lot: in Leipzig he met Robert Schumann, then became a professor in Prague, Piano teacher in Budapest, and back in Germany as coir director in a synagogue.

No one even noticed he was already composing, until a performance of his Piano Trio No.2 was highly praised by Franz Liszt and Hans von Bülow.

He then lived alternatively in Budapest (where he published most of his works) and Vienna (when he became a close friend of Johannes Brahms).

In the 1870s, he started teaching harmony and counterpoint at the Budapest's National Academy of Music, directed by Liszt, and in that city Volkmann died in 1883.

Reminding you that Volkmann's Konzertstück for Piano and Orchestra and Fantasy for Piano are both already online on Bartje Bartmans' channel, let's know discover some symphonic work by this neglected composer:

• his Symphony No.1, in D minor

• his Symphony No.2, in B flat major

• his Cello Concerto, in A minor

• a video collecting all his three, delightful String Serenades

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