Jan Ladislav Dussek: Piano Concerto in G minor, Op.49, Andreas Staier, Concerto Köln

Jan Ladislav Dussek - Piano Concerto in G minor, Op.49, Craw WVZ 187, Andreas Staier (piano), Concerto Köln I. Allegro – 00:00 II. Adagio – 15:09 III. Rondo: Allegro non troppo – 22:50 (the piano used for this recording dates from 1806, and is basically the same model as the one made “to please Dussek") Jan Ladislav Dussek (Jan Václav Dusík, with surname also written as Duschek or Düssek; 12 February 1760 – 20 March 1812) was a Czech composer and pianist. He was an important representative of Czech music abroad in the second half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Some of his more forward-looking piano works have traits often associated with Romanticism. " No less a person than the old Joseph Haydn at the zenith of his fame praised with these words Jan Ladislav Dussek, after having seen him in London in 1792. Dussek was born in Caslav and, being the son of a family of musicians, he took very early piano and organ lessons. In his home town and Prague he attended secondary schools and afterwards though only for a short time, he studied at university. In 1779 a first small concert tour lead the young pianist to Mechelen in Belgium, where he worked in the following time as a piano teacher. Dussek&next stages were Amsterdam and Den Haag. In 1782 he settled down in Hamburg as a notable virtuoso. The year 1783 Dussek spent in St. Petersburg, where he made music at the Court of Catherine II. But soon Dussek had to leave this Court in strange circumstances...