Jan Ladislav Dusík, also Jan Ladislav Dussek (February 12, 1760, Čáslav - M… Read Full Bio ↴Jan Ladislav Dusík, also Jan Ladislav Dussek (February 12, 1760, Čáslav - March 20, 1812 in Saint Germain-en-Laye) was a Czech composer and pianist of classical era. He was an important representative of Czech music abroad in the second half of 18th century and the beginning of 19th century. In some of his piano writing, Dusík anticipated features of musical romanticism. He was one of the first piano virtuosos to travel widely throughout Europe.

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01Sonata F dur - Allegro espressivo

02Sonata C dur - Allegro

03Sonata F dur - Allegretto

04Sonata F moll - Rondo. Allegro moderato

05Pastorella in G

06Piano Concerto in G minor Op.49 (50) (Craw WVZ 187) - II. Adagio

07Piano Concerto in G minor Op.49 (50) (Craw WVZ 187) - I. Allegro

Jan Ladislav Dusík

08Piano Concerto in in B flat major Op.22 (Craw WVZ 97) - III. Rondo: Allegro non tanto

09Sonate op. 35 n° 2 (Rondo)

10Tableau 'Marie Antoinette' Op. 23 (Craw WVZ 98)

11Piano Concerto in G minor Op.49 (50) (Craw WVZ 187) - III. Rondo: Allegro non troppo

12Piano Concerto in in B flat major Op.22 (Craw WVZ 97) - I. Allegro non troppo

13Piano Sonata op.61 - 2. Tempo vivace e con fuoco q

14Piano Sonata op.69 - 2. Larghetto espressivo

15Sonata In G Op.51 - I - Larghetto con espressione

16Piano Concerto in in B flat major Op.22 (Craw WVZ 97) - II. Larghetto non tanto

17Sonata for piano (C.133) (Op.31 No.2) in D major

18Piano Sonata op.10 - 2. Vivace con spirito

19Piano Sonata op.35 - 1. Allegro agitato assai

20Piano Sonata op.4 - 2. Tempo di menuetto

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Piano Concerto in G minor Op.49
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Aram Khachaturian

4y↑32

Something I like to do when I see a nice clean score like this is to bring out my violin and just play along with the recording, so much fun. If you haven't tried it yet you gotta, especially for symphonies! Those are a blast to play along with. This is the life of a lonely musician.

L

4y↑1

I have to Khachaturian and go to London. Lol

Aram Khachaturian

4y↑1

Layser H i saw someone making the same pun on the classical music discord, it isn’t a good pun. Spare me the pain

Wesley Wolhuter

I am sorry to hear you are lonely . I can empathize with you. I so enjoy doing the same with my cello. It's lots of fun! You can for that moment be a member of any of the great orchestras around the world! God bless and stay well ! Kind regards from South Africa 🇿🇦

Dan Alexander

2y↑3

Thank you for posting Dussek's music! He's a much under-appreciated composer, imho, like Hummel. Thanks!

Marc Alexandre Fontenay

2y↑1

Une vraie découverte que ce concerto de jeunesse de Dussek très mozartien d’inspiration ! Très belle interprétation !

Utstein Productions

4y↑20

Not sure how you get your hands on recordings of these gems, but I thank you for taking the time to do so. The mainstream composers that get played over and over needs to be replaced by the composers forgotten to time.

Artful Dodger

3y↑1

Have been banging this one for several years now but all we get on Classic fm is Beethoven 6 Grieg piano. And Rach’s symphonies, please someone at Classical radio stations take note and give some of these hidden gems a play.

Trond Arne Pettersen

4y↑10

Most charming! An interesting example of early romanticism. Thank you!

Paweł Małecki

3y↑2

I would not go that far. It's breathing Classical idioms, I think the best label would be post-Mozartean. You can hear Mozart's spirit all along.

Brian Knapp

3y↑3

@Paweł Małecki I would go that far! I classify Beethoven's 3rd piano concerto as Romantic. Dussek's Op. 49 is very bit as advanced in Romantic style as Beethoven's 3rd. There is still ongoing debate about whether Beethoven is classified as Romantic or Classical or something else. In my opinion Beethoven's 3rd symphony and 3rd piano concertos are both his first major works in the Romantic style. The sound is too big an bold to be just classical. I would start the Romantic Period in 1800 if I was making the rules.

Willem Musik

@Brian Knapp Nah. I classify Beethoven, Dussek, Weber, Schubert, etc as Classical era composers. Romantic era started in 1830 with pieces like Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique. The former composers all opened the door for the next generation of composers aka. the early romantics (Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Schumann, etc.) But nice to see different opinions. :)

Brian Knapp

2y↑4

@Willem Musik So you have a conservative, orthodox position on Romanticism in classical music. I see Romanticism as coming much earlier. I would add a transition period that goes from 1800 to 1830. In that time period we see a mix of Romantic and Late Classicial composers. Some composers of this period started in the Classical style and transitioned to the Romantic style. Some were Romantic when they started. Romantic style was often on a continuim. The same composer could write music that was anything from music like Mozart to wildly Romantic. Don't put composers of this time period in neat little pigeon holes by not admitting any Romanticism before 1830. Music critics/historians seem to hate composers from this period. They just want to keep promoting the most popular composers such Beethoven and Schubert. They don't want to trouble themselves with the transition composers.

mr 2010

4y↑15

Thanks Bartje for putting up these niche composers and their works.
I have to say that is remarkable music.
For 1801, every bit as advanced as Beethoven at that time.
I wish the powers that be that organise concerts, really consider putting lesser known composers, like this onto their programmes. It would raise the profile of the composer.
I always think that there is too much commercialism involved in classical music. They think that certain works are more box office than others.
So, although we love Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and Tschaikovsky for example, there is a whole raft of lesser known composers who wrote quality music, that should be exposed..

John Valentine

3y↑1

There is a very good reason why Dusik , Hummel, Ries, Czerny and the rest aren't represented in concert halls. I'll leave you to work it out.

Brian Knapp

3y↑3

@John Valentine I agree with mr sneaky2010 above. I think that composers such as Dussek were great innovators. The concert halls are the worse for ignoring them. Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and Tschaikovsky composed greater volumes of quality music but it does not mean that we should completely ignore composers such as Dussek. I think that the concert halls are controlled by people who have far too narrow of a view of music and are too worried about their financial bottom line.

Erik A

2y↑2

@John Valentine well shit, you couldn't give him a hint?

Brian Knapp

@DeeCeeHaich(WIM) Dussek's genius was from his romantic emotional expression through his music. He basically invented romantic music on his own. He started composing the in the mid 1780's and his style was romantic from the beginning. The classical music community just won't take time to get to know Dussek's music. He is blacklisted and written off without taking the time to study his music. He was not the musical technician that Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart were. Dussek's specialty was the feelings his music evokes. I tire of hearing hyper rational musicians laud Beethoven and how his music appeals to their intellect. I want to feel the emotions from Dussek's music. Beethoven's music is often warlike and overbearing. I still listen to Beethoven but I would rather the music of a composer like Dussek who expresses more relatable emotions. Apparently the Europeans from Dussek's time disagree with you about Dussek's composing abilities because even Beethoven was not as popular as Dussek while Dussek was alive. The spirit of the times allowed both Beethoven and Dussek to be respected and appreciated but the classical music community today is so narrow minded they write off Dussek just like you are. I am not saying that Dussek was as great as Beethoven or Mozart but his music deserves a hell of a lot more playtime then it is getting today. The Europeans are starting to recognize more of Dussek's greatness but here the USA Dussek is virtually ignored. I am certain that will please people like you. Beethoven worship is at cult level here in the USA. So sad.

Charles Timberlake

@Erik A He doesn't like his music, I assume. I do. Dussek was a fine composer. Rather innovative. BTW, I have a master's degree in music performance. I think my assessment of Dussek is an informed opinion.

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Frédéric Chopin

2y↑2

Wonderful!

Karin Junker

3y↑3

Marvelous ! Reading along even enhances the pleasure. Thank you for turning the pages !

Александр Ярков

1y↑2

Bravo bravo bravo brilliance fantastic music concerto

Kate Hunt

4y↑3

A real treat to make these discoveries AND follow the score at the same time. Thanks once again!

Musi Explora

4y↑2

a wonderful masterpiece!

agseu

3y↑2

Muito interessante. Desenvoltura e lirismo pré romântico.

Ivan the Benighted

4y↑1

That was a pretty great concerto.

Mieneke Krantz

4y↑2

thanks for the upload,great recording , great player.

Lee Jones

4y↑1

It's so relaxing

Alessandro Palazzani

4y↑8

Wow this piece is so full of contrasts of mood, unexpected harmonic and rhythmic changes that looks like a joke, but sturmisch und drangish.
The last chord in first movement? Open mouthliche! @15:11

Christian Wouters

4y↑2

Indeed, I know of no other classical work that ends in such an anticlimactic way. Also noteworthy is that D keeps the minor key atmosphere intact during a whole movement. Haydn and Mozart wrote rarely in minor keys, and then only to go to the relative major as soon as possible.

Pietro Landri

4y↑5

Even more than Sturm und Drang I'd say Romantic and "Beethovenian", ntending NOT that one is influencing the other, BUT that structures, moods, developments, inspiration and caliber of this one and Beethoven #3 are comparable (they've been composed, published and performed more or less in same years).
Dussek is a true genius whose caliber hasn't been yet fully acknowledged although he's more and more beloved and listened

Paweł Małecki

50w↑1

I still prefer Mozart's quenching of the opening minor key movement in both KV 466 and 491 with a passage played piano. It leaves one waiting for the next movement. A perfectly anxious "to be continued" ending but not an obvious cliff-hanger.

Paweł Małecki

3y↑1

0:40 (bar 25): Wanhal smiles
0:50 (bar 31): Wanhal starts dancing in his chair
And then the overly sentimental piano part starts. Am I the only person who'd prefer this to continue as a symphony?

Kenneth Moore

I agree. It's charming up until the piano entrance. Then it becomes trivial and bombastic, with too many mindless scales and arpeggios. It's too bad. He must have felt the need to please his audience with that stuff.

Paweł Małecki

I'd say another problem is the moment Dussek decided to start the solo entry is very unsatisfying because he cut the reprise of the opening in the moment the orchestral version gets the most interesting. He shot himself in the foot by providing treadmill passages where the audience expects that magnificent G-D-D-D fortissimo from 0:40. Maybe if the solo started just as explosively it would leave less of a disappointment later on.

Proclus

4y↑5

Jan Ladislav DUSSEK 1760 -- 1812 a Czech composer and virtuoso ... His father, Jan Josef, was a well-known organist and composer His sister was also a musician and composer ... He studied music at a Jesuit gymnasium ... reported to be a lazy student. . He moved to St. Petersburg, where he was a favorite of Catherine the Great ... was forced to leave Russia ...amid suspicions of his involvement in a plot to assassinate Catherine ... took a position as music director for Prince Antoni Radziwiłł in Lithuania ... . His departure from Lithuania may have been prompted by an affair with the Prince's wife... In Paris (from 1786) Dussek became a favorite of Marie Antoinette ... in Paris he may have met and played with a violinist by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte ... Dussek left France for England in 1789 ...It is sometimes alleged that he took with him the harpist wife of the composer Jean-Baptiste KRUMPHLTZ, who drowned himself into the Seine as a consequence ... In 1791, Dussek appeared in a series of concerts featured Sophia Corri ... married in 1792 ... began having serious marital troubles ... it was reported that Sophia, who had fallen in love with another man ... long story ...

Erik A

Dude sounds like a sexy Beethoven.

Ben Silverman

@Erik A Sexy Beethoven is a contradiction in terms, but he does sound like a subject for a novel...

Valeriy Khasyanov

2y↑1

🌹🌹🌹

Yannick M

4y↑6

0:41 reminds me on haydns Farewell Symphony (Nr.45)

Oded Fried-Gaon

Didn't know of this great composer!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Ladislav_Dussek
#OdedFriedGaon #OdedMusic #OdedFullAlbumPlaylist #OdedWeekendPlaylist #Audioded

Jimmy Walsh

4y↑2

👌

kmrerk

2y↑2

Wonderful. I don't understand some of these "I'm so smart" critics with their gratuitous criticsisms. Grow up!

jan hoppezak

34w↑1

Hidden treasure

goodcyrus

4y↑2

WOW IS RIGHT!

lithuanianballer

3y↑1

19:53

bacchusnotneptune

4y↑1

No views but three likes pog

John Valentine

Sorry, but all I hear is relentless note spinning and vacuous 'padding'. Most commentators here need an education in musical discernment.

Bartje Bartmans

3y↑10

and you need to relax.

John Valentine

@Bartje Bartmans What do you suggest- girls, a little bit of hash maybe.

Christian Wouters

3y↑1

Of course a question of taste, I don't like the mechanical and "square" nature of Dusseks' music. Same as with f.i. Scarlatti who is vastly overrated.

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