Moritz Moshkovsky biography

Moshkovsky was born in a rich Jewish family. His parents moved from Pilitsa to Breslau shortly after the birth of the eldest son-in the future of the famous satirist Alexander Moshkovsky. Moritz early showed musical abilities and received his first music lessons at home. In the year, the family moved to Dresden, where Moshkovsky entered the conservatory. Four years later, he continued his studies at the Berlin Conservatory Stern at Eduard Frank Fortepiano and Friedrich Kil composition, and then at the new Academy of musical art of Theodore Kullak.

At the age of 17, Moshkovsky accepted Kullak’s proposal to start teaching himself, and remained in this position for more than 25 years. In the year, he first made a solo concert in Berlin and quickly became famous as a virtuoso artist. Moshkovsky was also a good violinist and sometimes played a batch of the first violin in the academy orchestra. His first works dates to the same time, among which the most famous is a piano concert, first performed in Berlin in the year and highly approved by the Ferenc leaf.

In the city, the son of Marseille and the daughter of Sylvia in the years were born in the marriage due to the nervous disorder by the nervous disorder, Moshkovsky almost stopped his pianistic career and focused on the composition. In the year, at the invitation of the Royal Philharmonic Society, he first visited England, where he acted as a conductor. In the year he was elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, and four years later settled in Paris.

During this period, Moshkovsky becomes a popular composer and a demanded teacher: among his students - Voyah Gavronsky, Joseph Hoffmann, Wanda Landovsk, Joaquin Turin. Since the beginning of the 10ths, interest in Moshkovsky’s music began to gradually decline. The death of his wife and daughter greatly undermined his already shaken health. The composer began to lead the life of the recluse and finally stopped performing.

Moshkovsky spent the last years of his life in poverty. In the year, one of his American acquaintances arranged a large concert in Carnegie -Hall in honor of the composer, but, being seriously ill, Moshkovsky did not manage to use the proceeds during his lifetime - they went to his funeral. Moshkovsky’s early orchestral works had some resonance, but he brought him real fame for the piano - virtuoso plays, concert sketches and other works, up to salon plays intended for home music.

In the early works of Moshkovsky, the influence of Chopin, Mendelssohn and, in particular, Schumann, can be traced, but later the composer formed his own style, which, not distinguished by special originality, nevertheless, clearly showed a subtle author's sense of tool and its capabilities.

Ignazius Paderevsky wrote later: "Moshkovsky, perhaps better than other composers, except Chopin, understands how to compose for piano." For many years, the works of Moshkovsky have been forgotten, practically not fulfilled, and only in recent years was there a revival of interest in the creativity of the composer. Moshkovsky’s works are replete with beautiful and charmingly elegant melodies and bright and attractive rhythms, perfection of shape and framing.

Moshkovsky’s music is romantic by intention, it always moves in the direction of thought conceived by the composer. He is at the same time fruitful and original, his music always touches directly and causes the listener's interest. Hence its great popularity.