Wilhelm Berger Piano Sonata

Mitsuko Saruwatari Piano 00:00 Allegro con fuoco 12:02 Adagio 22:17 Grazioso Wilhelm Berger (18611911) was a German Composer. By the time of his first concert, age fourteen, Wilhelm had already composed a large number of songs and works for the piano. Between 1878 and 1884, Berger studied at the Royal Conservatory in Berlin, under Ernst Rudorff (piano) and Friedrich Kiel (counterpoint). From 1888 to 1903, he was a teacher at the KlindworthScharwenka Conservatory, a function which he combined, from 1899, with the chief conductorship of the Berlin Musical Society. In addition, he was very active as a concert pianist. Like most of the composers from the circle of the Berlin Academics, Berger developed a great mastery of music theory. Stylistically, his music is very close to that of Johannes Brahms, even though it almost hints at the later works of Max Reger (who was to become Berger s successor as Meiningen Kapellmeister) through its preference for dissonant harmony and