STEPHEN HELLER Hungarian Composer (1813-1888) Stephen Heller free midi download

STEPHEN HELLER
15^thMay 1813 --- 14^thJanuary 1888

Stephen Heller was a celebrated Hungarian pianist and composer, born in Pest, 1813, died Paris, 1888. He was of a Jewish family
but was converted to Christianity as a youth. He studied piano with F. Brauer and showed such extraordinary ability that he was
sent to Vienna to continue his studies, there he studied briefly with Czerny before he took lessons with Anton Halm.

In 1828 he began a tour through Austria and Germany. However the exertion of travel proved too much for him, in Augsburga he
became ill and decided to remain there for a time, financial means were provided by patronage from members of the Fugger, a
wealthy family who lived in Augsburga. In 1838 he went to Paris, where he became friendly with Berlioz, Chopin, and Liszt. Soon
he became very successful as a pianist, some critics even judged him as superior to Chopin. In Paris, Heller began to compose
piano pieces somewhat akin to Schumanns brilliant salon dances, studies, and character pieces that became exceedingly popular.

In 1849 he visited London, where his concerts charmed a large circle of music-lovers. A nervous ailment forced him to curtail his
appearances, in 1862 he revisited England and played with Halle at the Crystal Palace. Then returned to Paris, where he remained
for the rest of his life.

Heller wrote a very large amount of piano music, including a quantity of studies that tended to eclipse his reputation in other
genres of piano music. These latter included pieces of all kinds, variations, character pieces, operatic transcriptions and fantasies
a much smaller number of sonatas with a larger number of dance movements and smaller forms nocturnes, waltzes, caprices and
scherzos. His career spans a period from Schumann to Massenet and Bizet, and his music suggests the paths to be taken by later
Romantic composers such as Rachmaninov and Medtner. He wrote in all several hundred piano pieces, arranged in groups.

Both entries from Baker's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Nicolas Slonimski.
Information supplied by David SM Knopf who has my grateful thanks.

Last Updated on 2023
By Steven Ritchie

And now for the Music

New (4041)"Piano Prelude, No.19". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

New (4046)"Piano Prelude, No.21". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

New (4047)"Piano Prelude, No.22". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

New (4048)"Piano Prelude, No.23". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3299)"Weanderstunden Opus.80 No.2". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(2200)"Melody No.12". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(2199)"Melody No.11". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(2198)"Melody No.10". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(2160)"Melody No.9". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(2159)"Melody No.8". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(2090)"Melody No.7". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(2093)"Melody No.6". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(2081)"Melody No.5". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(2080)"Melody No.4". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(2079)"Melody No.3". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(1998)"Melody No.2". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(1997)"Melody No.1". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(574)"Rondino In G Major". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(576)"Cradle Song". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

(577)"Song without words". Sequenced by Reginald Steven Ritchie.

Thanks to Tony Matthews for the music below. Email (TonyM@absolutesolutions.co.uk)
(2523)"Melody No.1, Opus.46". Sequenced by Tony Matthews.

(2524)"Melody No.3, Opus.46". Sequenced by Tony Matthews.

(2525)"Melody No.5, Opus.46". Sequenced by Tony Matthews.

(2526)"Melody No.7, Opus.46". Sequenced by Tony Matthews.

(2527)"Melody No.11, Opus.46". Sequenced by Tony Matthews.

(2528)"Melody No.18, Opus.46". Sequenced by Tony Matthews.

(2529)"Melody No.20, Opus.46". Sequenced by Tony Matthews.

(2530)"Melody No.22, Opus.46". Sequenced by Tony Matthews.

(42)"Tarantelle Opus.85, No.2". Sequenced by Jerry A Enfield

New (3298)"Tarantelle". Sequencer Unknown.

New (3297)"Souvenir?". Sequencer Unknown.

New (3296)"Mazurka". Sequencer Unknown.

New (3295)"Unknown title". Sequencer Unknown.

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