Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812)
Sonatas for Piano • 3
BILIANA TZINLIKOVA
“Franz Anton Hoffmeister, a contemporary of Mozart and Beethoven, was a successful composer and publisher in Vienna’s “age of copyists”. His keyboard sonatas are full of exuberant energy and charming melodies. They represent the lifestyle of the wealthy and educated class of the late Rococo and show Hoffmeister’s rank as a classical composer in the best sense of the word while preparing the ground for the music of the Romantic era that was to follow.” – Biliana Tzinlikova
Keyboard Sonata in D major
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(1754–1812)
About this Recording
This is the last of three volumes of the first complete recording of Hoffmeister’s piano sonatas. The spirit of Mozart is discernible in the concise Sonata in D major, while the Sonata in C major is notable for a dramatic opening Allegro, followed by a searching Andante and a passionate Rondo. The Sonata in B flat major, the only Hoffmeister sonata to have a slow first movement and whose Andante finale takes a simple, folk-like theme and subjects it to a dozen variations, is one of his most experimental and forward-looking works.
TOTAL TIME: 53:17
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BILIANA TZINLIKOVA
Biliana Tzinlikova was born in Sofia in 1974. After piano studies at the Sofia State Music Academy (Marina Kapazinskaja) she moved to the Salzburg Mozarteum to work with Andor Losonczy and Christoph Lieske, completing her studies with distinction in 2001. She went on to participate in master-courses with Paul van Ness, Andrzej Jasińsky, Pierre Amoyal, Pavel Gililov, Menahem Pressler, Alexander Lonquich, Klaus-Christian Schuster, and Claude Frank, influenced in particular by contact and work with Ruggiero Ricci and Ferenz Rados. She has appeared as a soloist and chamber-music player in important festivals and events in Europe and the United States. From 2003 to 2005 she was a member of the Munich Philharmonic Trio and in 2004 made her début at the Vienna Konzerthaus, continuing to collaborate with leading musicians. She is interested in the work of living composers and in piano rarities from the past and has taught at the Mozarteum since 2001.
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