The life of Johann Baptist Cramer furnishes a striking illustration of the career of a man who having exceptionally solid acquirements has bequeathed to posterity his most valuable knowledge in an enduring form. Both as a professional musician and as a businessman he enjoyed uninterrupted prosperity. Born at Mannheim Germany on February 24 1771 of musical German lineage - his father being a distinguished violinist his grandfather a noted flautist - he was taken the following year to London where his father settled permanently. Cramer's Studies for Pianoforte are those of his works wherein the composer yet lives and labors among us. They are still lookedupon as indispensable.
SKU: PR.UT052012
ISBN 9783850557726. UPC: 800522003301.
With works by Clementi, Czerny and Cramer, Urtext Primo 6 contains easy piano music by three composers who all stood out as piano teachers publishing piano methods and study literature. Not only is there a selection of popular sonatinas by Muzio Clementi, there are also selected pieces by Carl Czerny which show that piano lessons do not necessarily have to be outdated and stuffy, and there also exists a repertoire by Johann Baptist Cramer (known from the studies of Cramer-Bulow) which is suitable not only for advanced students.
