Heidelberg Piano

Dear friends of piano music, Actually today I wanted to introduce you to possibly the most musical pharmacist of all time, possibly the most musical Danish pharmacist of all time, to be precise. Nothing will come of it, unfortunately. Full of zest for action, I threw myself into research in order to find next to nothing. I hadn't really expected that, because a relatively large number of works by Ludvig Schytte, who was the subject of today's discussion, have survived. Above all, he has written a lot for his numerous piano students, but also a lot that is pianistically demanding. So we know when he lived (1848-1909), that he initially dealt with pharmacy and did not receive any professional musical training before he was 22, that he studied with Gade in Copenhagen and Liszt in Weimar, among others. He lived and taught mainly in Vienna, a few years before his death he moved to Berlin, where he also taught. His daughter Anna was a violinist. Unfortunately, that's all I coul...