Joachim Raff | Romance

Joseph Joachim Raff (27 May 1822 - 24 or 25 June 1882) was a German-Swiss composer, pedagogue and pianist.
Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland.
Joachim was largely self-taught in music, studying the subject while working as a schoolmaster in Schmerikon, Schwyz and Rapperswil. He sent some of his piano compositions to Felix Mendelssohn who recommended them to Breitkopf & Härtel for publication. They were published in 1844 and received a favourable review in Robert Schumann's journal, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, which prompted Raff to go to Zürich and take up composition full-time.
In 1845, Raff walked to Basel to hear Franz Liszt play the piano. After a period in Stuttgart where he became friends with the conductor Hans von Bülow, he worked as Liszt's assistant at Weimar from 1850 to 1853. During this time he helped Liszt in the orchestration of several of his works, claiming to have had a major part in orchestrating the symphonic poem Tasso. In 1851, Raff's opera König Alfred was staged in Weimar, and five years later he moved to Wiesbaden where he largely devoted himself to composition. From 1878 he was the first Director of, and a teacher at, the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. There he employed Clara Schumann and a number of other eminent musicians as teachers, and established a class specifically for female composers. (This was at a time when women composers were not taken seriously.) His pupils there included Edward MacDowell and Alexander Ritter.

[@ronl7131]

Lovely composition

[@meisterwue]

Raff....once again a forgotten composer , but we change this ...❤here is the beginning

[@JamesMichaelStevens]

Lovely piano piece and well played!

[@eloisadomingo7960]

Del siglo XIX hasta nosotros gracias a ti. 😍🥰

[@user-mq3cy1tv8m]

Гарний романс.

[@hyseo1121]

Raff showed this piece to Mendelssohn and it is warmly recieved by him.
He also encouraged Raff to continue career as a composer.

[@PianoScoreVids]

I love reading about things like that, they were normal humans with a gift of making nice music, it sometimes feels like the music is the only thing left, but we can read about the biographies and their life too

[@lluisrafalessole-classical5068]

Beautiful piece

[@dieseltieger4173]

Endlich mal jemand der den Mittelteil richtig spielt. Nicht so schnell wie alle. Absolut super.

[@PianoScoreVids]

danke dir!

[@tommywestbrook6470]

A bit like Anton Rubenstein. Had a kind of yearning feel to it. Excellent.

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💝💗💖❤️‍🩹❤️ ...

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[@golanhalima]

How can I send you some examples of my sheet music?