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THALBERG, SIGISMOND (1812-1871)

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THALBERG, SIGISMOND (1812-1871) , See also:German pianist and composer, was See also:born at See also:Geneva in 1812 (May the 5th or See also:January the 7th). In 1822 he was taken to See also:Vienna, where, under the watchful care of See also:Count Dietrichstein, his See also:education was completed. He made his first See also:appearance as a pianist at See also:Prince Metternich's in 1826, and published his first See also:composition—a See also:Fantasia on Airs from " Euryanthe "—in 1828, but it was not until 1830 that he was first fairly introduced to the public, with such brilliant success that from that See also:time forward his only See also:rival was See also:Liszt (q.v.). In 1834 he was appointed " kammervirtuos " to the See also:emperor of See also:Austria. He first appeared in See also:Paris in 1837; and in 1838 he went to See also:England, astonishing his hearers with the novel effects produced in his See also:Variations on See also:God See also:Save the See also:Queen, while he charmed them with his delicate See also:touch and the purity of his expression. Thenceforward his career was a See also:succession of triumphs. In See also:order to disprove the popular See also:idea that he could execute no See also:music but his own, he played See also:Beethoven's See also:Concerto in C See also:minor (Op. 37) at the See also:London Wednesday Concerts, held in 1846–47 at See also:Exeter See also:Hall, with a keen intelligence which proved his See also:power of interpreting the See also:works of the See also:great masters to be at least on a level with his wonderful technique. Besides his See also:pianoforte compositions, which are almost innumerable, Thalberg produced two operas—Cristina, which proved a See also:complete failure, and Florinda, which fared but little better at Her See also:Majesty's See also:Theatre in 1851. He played in London for the last time in 1863, and afterwards retired to his See also:estate near See also:Naples. He died at Naples on the 27th of See also:April 1871.

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