Heller: Romantic Studies

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Stephen Heller was born in 1813 in Pest and died in 1888 in Paris. He was a prominent pianist and composer of his age. Of his more than 150 piano pieces his studies range among the masterpieces of Romantic piano literature. The compositions included in the present publication reveal, in spite of formal simplicity, the richness of melody and harmony Heller's music. They are not only exercises aiming at solving certain technical problems but, similar to other Romantic studies, self-contained convert pieces as well.