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Friedrich Kalkbrenner
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German-born French pianist, composer, piano teacher and piano manufacturer (1784-1849)
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- 1
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Germany
- Active from
- 1784
- Active to
- 1849
Discography
- The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 41: Piano Concerto no. 1, op. 61 / Piano Concerto no. 4, op. 1272006
- The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 56: Piano Concerto no. 2, op. 85 / Piano Concerto no. 3, op. 107 / Adagio & allegro di bravura, op. 1022012
- 3 Piano Sonatas, op. 12013
- 3 Piano Sonatas, op. 42015
- 25 Grandes Etudes de Style et de Perfectionnement2019
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Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner (7 November 1785–10 June 1849) was a German pianist and composer. Son of Christian Kalkbrenner (1755-1806), a musician of Cassel, Friedrich was educated at the Paris Conservatoire, and soon began to play in public. From 1814 to 1823 he was well known as a brilliant performer and a successful teacher in London, and then settled in Paris, dying at Enghien, near there, in 1849. As a teacher Kalkbrenner developed a piano playing technique that kept the musician's stre
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Holy Roman Empire
- Place of birth
- Kassel
- Place of death
- Enghien-les-Bains
- Father
- Christian Kalkbrenner
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Award
- Order of Leopold
- Student of
- Louis Adam
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Friedrich Kalkbrenner 1829.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
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- Friedrich Kalkbrenner
- date of birth
- 1785-11-02
- date of death
- 1849-00-00
- student
- Ambroise Thomas
- cause of death
- cholera
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner
- date of baptism
- 1785-11-08
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Works in European collections
14 objects attributed to Friedrich Kalkbrenner, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana