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Scharwenka

American  
[shahr-veng-kah] / ʃɑrˈvɛŋ kɑ /

noun

  1. (Ludwig) Philipp 1847–1917, German composer.

  2. his brother (Franz) Xaver 1850–1924, German pianist and composer.


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Le Salon de Musiques The intimate chamber-music series presents “Virtuosic Performance,” a program of works for strings and piano by Bach, Chopin, Saint-Saëns and Philipp Scharwenka.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2019

Le Salon de Musiques The intimate chamber-music series presents works for piano and strings by Robert Schumann and Xaver and Philipp Scharwenka.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2017

Le Salon de Musiques The intimate chamber-music series offers works for piano and strings by Robert Schumann and Xaver and Philipp Scharwenka.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2017

In 1880 he founded the Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin together with his brother Philipp Scharwenka, an able composer.

From Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression by James Francis Cooke

Scharwenka first played this arrangement at a Seidl memorial concert, in Chickering Hall, New York, April, 1898.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker

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