Books and Journals

SKU: UT.QC-4

Edited by Roberto Illiano and Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald. Paperback (Soft Cover). Quaderni Clementiani. Essays by Jean-Pierre Bartoli, Alan Davison, Therese Ellsworth, Erik Entwistle, Jeremy Eskenazy, Michaela Freemanova, Stephan D. Lindeman, Rudolf Rasch, Renato Ricco, Jeanne Roudet, David Rowland, Massimiliano Sala, Laure Schnapper, Rohan H. Stewart-MacDo. Classical. Books and Journals. 568 pages. Ut Orpheus #QC 4. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.QC-4).

ISBN 9788881094783. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.

Saggi di Jean-Pierre Bartoli, Alan Davison, Therese Ellsworth, Erik Entwistle, Jeremy Eskenazy, Michaela Freemanová, Stephan D. Lindeman, Rudolf Rasch, Renato Ricco, Jeanne Roudet, David Rowland, Massimiliano Sala, Laure Schnapper, Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald, Marie Sumner Lott


The career of Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) was notable for its peripateticism. Starting out in his native Bohemia Dussek spent periods of time in Germany and the Netherlands, settling in London for about ten years in the 1790s, progressing to Hamburg and ending his days in Paris. Although his activities centred on the piano, like so many musicians of his day Dussek branched out from performing and composing to encompass teaching, publishing and instrument retail, with varying success. A plethora of reviews and biographical accounts attest to Dussek’s renown throughout Europe as a pianist and composer, particularly when it came to sensitive and cantabile playing; and he interacted with some of the most eminent musicians, artists and political figures of his time. Dussek’s reputation declined sharply in the nineteenth century, however, and with the exception of isolated revivals of his work, for instance in London in the mid-nineteenth century, he has remained on the verge of obscurity in the minds of many musicians and music-lovers until the present day: even his well-known innovation of placing the piano sideways-on to the audience to display his striking profile is often mistakenly attributed to Franz Liszt. Although Dussek has provided the subject of a number of student dissertations over the years, in the published literature he has largely been restricted to cameo appearances or brief entries in historical surveys.
The bicentennial anniversary of Dussek’s death provides a fitting occasion for bringing together scholars from all parts of the world to produce the first multi-author, multi-lingual study of the composer. Several chapters deal with aspects of Dussek’s biography and iconography that receive only sparse treatment elsewhere; others survey the different branches of his output, including the piano sonatas, the piano concertos, the chamber music with and without harp and the three String Quartets, Op. 60, which are currently enjoying a revival via recordings and a new edition.
This book has two fundamental aims. One is to stimulate renewed interest in, and debate about, a less than celebrated – one might say unjustly neglected – figure. The other aim is to approach Dussek’s multi-facetted, geographically diverse career as an interface between ourselves and the music business at the beginning of the nineteenth century, whose complexity and vicissitudes emanated from the sociological dynamics and political events with which Dussek was, to an almost unique degree, inextricably associated. The highs and lows of Dussek’s career, the surviving contemporary accounts of Dussek the performer and composer, and the letters he exchanged with colleagues in several nations vividly portray the struggles of a worldly, ambitious, versatile and extremely perspicacious musician striving to carve out a place of eminence and material security for himself. This meant negotiating the complex progression, underway at this point in history, from the patronage system to the emergence of the artist as a socially and financially autonomous entity.

Piano

SKU: HL.14009426

Composed by Jan Ladislav Dussek. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #UMP81700. Published by Music Sales (HL.14009426).

By Jan Ladislav Dussek. For Harp, Violin and Violoncello. Score and Parts. Published by Ut Orpheus. (MAG 162)

By Jan Ladislav Dussek. For Piano. Piano Collection. Masterwork. Book. 44 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

By Jan Ladislav Dussek. For 2 Pianos (Harp and Piano). Score and Parts. Published by Ut Orpheus. (MAG 138)

Piano Solo

SKU: HL.14008119

Composed by Jan Ladislav Dussek. Music Sales America. Classical. Sheet Music, Instrumental Work. With Text language: Spanish. Union Musical Ediciones #UMP60020. Published by Union Musical Ediciones (HL.14008119).

UPC: 884088855086.

Piano

SKU: BT.ALHE33289

Composed by Jan Ladislav Dussek. Classical. Book Only. 96 pages. Heugel & Cie #ALHE33289. Published by Heugel & Cie (BT.ALHE33289).

French.

Johann Ladislas Dussek: Solo No.1 du 2e Concerto Op.14 in F major (Piano solo).

Fortepiano

SKU: FZ.5804

Serie I - France 1600-1800. Edited by Jeanne Roudet. This edition: Facsimile. Methodes & Traites. Score. Published by Anne Fuzeau Productions - France (FZ.5804).

ISBN 9790230658041. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.

These early music methods are in facsimile in two books. Louis ADAM et Ludwig-Wensel LACHNITZ - Ignace PLEYEL et Johann-Ludwig DUSSEK. Table of contents: Pleyel Ignace et Dussek Johann-Ludwig: Methode pour le pianoforte - 1797. Adam Louis et Lachnitz Ludwig-Wensel: Methode ou principe general du doigte (premiere partie de la reedition de 1801). Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France (Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches. Facsimile of copies in the National Library of Paris (France). Anne Fuzeau Classique propose the complete theoretic documentation, methods, classical music scores on the fortepiano.

(Serie I - France 1600-1800). Edited by Jeanne Roudet. For Fortepiano. Facsimiles. Methodes and Traites. Grade 0. 476 pages

Piano

SKU: HL.48188738

Composed by Jan Ladislav Dussek. Leduc. Classical. Softcover. Heugel & Cie #HE33291. Published by Heugel & Cie (HL.48188738).

Johann Ladislas Dussek: Solo No.1 du 6e Concerto Op.27 in F major (Piano solo).

Piano

SKU: BT.ALHE33288

Composed by Jan Ladislav Dussek. Classical. Book Only. 96 pages. Heugel & Cie #ALHE33288. Published by Heugel & Cie (BT.ALHE33288).

French.

Johann Ladislas Dussek: Solo No.1 du 1er Concerto Op.3 in E flat major (Piano solo).