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Alla Turca: styriarte 2011

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Christoph Hammer (pianoforte) presents works of Hummel, Steibelt, Mozart, Haslinger, and Vanhal in Graz.

In 1812, all of Europe watched in horror as Moscow burned, a fire that would foretell the defeat of Napoleon's Grande Armée. Daniel Steibelt, a piano virtuoso in the Czar's service, narrated the horrific event in musical notes, creating L’incendie de Moscou. Christoph Hammer includes this and other pieces in his curio cabinet of music commemorating battles from the Napoleonic era, with the only exception to the theme being Mozart's rondo Alla Turca. The sabre‐rattling Janissaries in Alla Turca are examined here only as a charming echo of Viennese history.

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