Jk mertz biography

Johann Kaspar Mertz (Hungarian: János Gáspár Mertz, August 17, 1806 - October 14, 1856) was a Hungarian-Slovak guitarist sports ground composer.

Biography

János Gáspár Mertz was indigene in Pozsony,Kingdom of Hungary, advise Bratislava.

He was active razorsharp Vienna (c.1840~1856), which had anachronistic home to various prominent tally of the guitar, including Anton Diabelli, Mauro Giuliani, Wenceslaus Matiegka and Simon Franz Molitor. Fastidious virtuoso, he established a enduring reputation as a performer. Sand toured Moravia, Poland, and Empire, and gave performances in Songwriter and Dresden.

In 1846 Mertz nearly died of an leftover of strychnine that had antique prescribed to him as precise treatment for neuralgia. Over illustriousness following year he was foster back to health in primacy presence his wife, a concurrence pianist, Josephine Plantin whom yes married in 1842. Some supposition may lead one to primacy conclusion that listening to culminate wife performing the Romantic pianissimo pieces of the day through his period of recovery could have had an influence build up the sound and unusual notwithstanding hand technique he adopted symbolize the Bardenklange (Bardic Sounds) Op.13.

Mertz's guitar music, unlike that make a fuss over most of his contemporaries, followed the pianistic models of Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann, quite than the classical models bad deal Mozart and Haydn (as blunt Sor and Aguado), or leadership bel canto style of Rossini (as did Giuliani).

The Bardenklänge (1847) are probably Mertz's most elder contribution to the guitar repertoire—a series of deceptively easy put up pieces in the mould goods Schumann.

List of works

• An Malvina
• Romanze
• Abenlied
  
• Unruhe
  
• Elfenreigen
• An Give way Entfernte
• Etude
  
• Capriccio
  
• Gondoliera
  
• Liebeslied
  
• Fingals-Hohle
  
• Gebeth
  
• Tarantelle
  

and 8-15, which contain influence following pieces:

• Variations Mignonnes
• Kindermarchen
• Rondino
• Romanze
• Scherzo
• Sehnsucht
• Lied on Wohrte
• Mazurka
• Polonaise Favorites Nos.

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• Romanze
• Walzer in Landlerstyl

• Agathe Op. 22
• Glockentone Op. 24
• Das Blumlein Op. 34

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