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in 1696 - probably for reasons of faith - and settled thereafter in Samter. His father, August
Wilhelm, was a gifted master-builder but decidedly did not have an ear for music. His mother, née Golisch, was an ethnic Pole from a family of some means, who was musically inclined and early on instilled
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In 1881 Scharwenka organized a successful annual series of chamber and solo concerts at the
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Scharwenka's works were neglected for some years after his death; however, his "Polish Dance No. 1" in E-flat minor, Op. 3, No. 1, remained popular. Since the mid-1990s, however, interest in his music has been rekindled, and recordings of most of his works are now commercially available.
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The four piano concertos are substantial works. The first, in B-flat minor, Op. 32, was completed in 1874 and premiered the following year. It was originally written as a solo piano fantasy, but
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The fourth concerto, in F minor, Op. 82 (1908), was premiered on 18 October 1908 in the
Beethovensaal, Berlin, with Scharwenka's student Martha Siebold as the soloist and the composer himself conducting.
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in her children a love of music. Although he began learning to play the piano by ear when he was 3, Scharwenka did not start formal music studies until he was 15, when his family moved to
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and teacher of Polish descent. He was the brother of
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and he enrolled at the Akademie der Tonkunst. Under
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Chopin Playing from the Composer to the Present Day
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250:Sometime in the very early 1900s he conducted
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