This concert is dedicated to the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (1786-1859), the daughter of Russian tsar Pavel (Paul) I (1754-1801; ruled the country in 1796-1801) and later the wife of Karl Friedrich (Charles Frederick; 1783-1853), the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Probably there is some information related to Kleeberg (in old manner is the writing Cleeberg possible, too) in Russian and German archives. In Wikipedia, I've found nothing about him.
Thanks for that. Some of that (the dedication) is on the title page, though between the font choice and poor scan quality it's a bit hard to read (and that's after I boosted the contrast on it too - the original from IMSLP is even worse). I assumed there would be more info from German sources, but didn't consider Russian. There's probably some French sources as well, given that's where this edition was apparently published. But if these sources exist, they seem to not be online, so it might require more digging into actual libraries rather than just the internet. Searching under the alternate spelling of Cleeberg didn't yield any additional results (Google apparently already corrects for that by offering close phonetic matches.)
It does, doesn't it? The opening bars are close enough to be near-plagiarism. I had to check the dates - Mozart's #25 was 1786, and Kleeberg's was 1809, so it's almost certain he was familiar with Mozart's works. The Mozart is generally played a bit slower, but then maybe I went too fast? For scores from this time period, they rarely put the actual BPM intended, so there's room for interpretation.
@@Darrel_Hoffman Pastiching can be fun… especially when trying to synthesize multiple sources. My D Minor concerto (on my channel) tries to do that with three different concertos at once, the Mozart and Beethoven C Minors, and (in the third movement) the Chopin E Minor. I have several other concertos if you’d like to listen.
Nice, have a subscription. I'm always looking to expand my catalog, part of the motivation behind starting this channel. I've been (very slowly) working on a concerto of my own, but nothing in a state I want to publish yet. I will eventually premiere it here, but it's a lot of work. I've also done some arrangements of other works - I have a concerto orchestration of Beethoven's 2nd piano sonata that's basically complete, but needs some polish. I'm also working on reconstructing Henri Herz's 6th Concerto after my moderate success transcribing the 5th (the orchestra parts are apparently lost, which may be why it was never recorded while the other 7 have.) Only problem with that is it involves a chorus in the 3rd movement, and that's going to be impossible to simulate well, so it'll just be oohs and ahhs - better than nothing, I guess? We'll see, it's going to be a little bit before I put any of that up.
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This concert is dedicated to the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (1786-1859), the daughter of Russian tsar Pavel (Paul) I (1754-1801; ruled the country in 1796-1801) and later the wife of Karl Friedrich (Charles Frederick; 1783-1853), the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Probably there is some information related to Kleeberg (in old manner is the writing Cleeberg possible, too) in Russian and German archives. In Wikipedia, I've found nothing about him.
Thanks for that. Some of that (the dedication) is on the title page, though between the font choice and poor scan quality it's a bit hard to read (and that's after I boosted the contrast on it too - the original from IMSLP is even worse).
I assumed there would be more info from German sources, but didn't consider Russian. There's probably some French sources as well, given that's where this edition was apparently published. But if these sources exist, they seem to not be online, so it might require more digging into actual libraries rather than just the internet.
Searching under the alternate spelling of Cleeberg didn't yield any additional results (Google apparently already corrects for that by offering close phonetic matches.)
Reminds me of Mozart #25
It does, doesn't it? The opening bars are close enough to be near-plagiarism. I had to check the dates - Mozart's #25 was 1786, and Kleeberg's was 1809, so it's almost certain he was familiar with Mozart's works. The Mozart is generally played a bit slower, but then maybe I went too fast? For scores from this time period, they rarely put the actual BPM intended, so there's room for interpretation.
@@Darrel_Hoffman Pastiching can be fun… especially when trying to synthesize multiple sources. My D Minor concerto (on my channel) tries to do that with three different concertos at once, the Mozart and Beethoven C Minors, and (in the third movement) the Chopin E Minor. I have several other concertos if you’d like to listen.
Nice, have a subscription. I'm always looking to expand my catalog, part of the motivation behind starting this channel. I've been (very slowly) working on a concerto of my own, but nothing in a state I want to publish yet. I will eventually premiere it here, but it's a lot of work. I've also done some arrangements of other works - I have a concerto orchestration of Beethoven's 2nd piano sonata that's basically complete, but needs some polish. I'm also working on reconstructing Henri Herz's 6th Concerto after my moderate success transcribing the 5th (the orchestra parts are apparently lost, which may be why it was never recorded while the other 7 have.) Only problem with that is it involves a chorus in the 3rd movement, and that's going to be impossible to simulate well, so it'll just be oohs and ahhs - better than nothing, I guess? We'll see, it's going to be a little bit before I put any of that up.