In 1790, one musical dictionary described Leopold Kozeluch as 'without question the living composer most loved by young or old'; his works displayed 'liveliness and grace, the noblest melody combined...
Leopold Ko?eluch (1747-1818) was a Bohemian composer-pianist who moved to Vienna in 1778, three years before Mozart settled there. The sonatas (49 in total) share qualities with the work of his...
Especially in his late sonatas, Leopold Kozeluch's keyboard music belongs no less to the quickly evolving cultural landscape of late 18th- and early 19th-century Vienna than the works of Mozart,...
Despite his present-day obscurity, during his lifetime Leopold Kozeluch was held in just as high esteem as his contemporaries C.P.E. Bach, Haydn and Beethoven, with some accounts praising him as a...
This is the final volume of Kemp English's pioneering world premiere recording of Leopold Kozeluch's complete solo keyboard sonatas. It is played, once again, on appropriate authentic instruments and...