Fritz von Bose - Piano Suite No.1 Op.9

Alexandra Oehler - Piano 00:00 Praeludium 03:08 Scherzo 07:07 Intermezzo 10:01 Menuetto 12:30 Gavotte 17:13 FInale Fritz von Bose (1865-1945) was a German Composer. He received his first piano lessons from his father Carl Emil von Bose. In 1874 the family moved to Leipzig; there Bose became a piano student of Heinrich Klesse. Bose studied from 1883 at the then famous Leipzig Conservatory with Carl Reinecke. During a stay in Hamburg in 1887/88 he met the conductor and pianist Hans von Bülow. With the mezzo-soprano Alice Barbi he traveled through Germany, Austria, Hungary and Russia. Fritz von Bose represented a “rare piano culture that preserved the best and finest of Leipzig’s classical and romantic tradition of the academy“ (Walter Niemann). In 1893 von Bose took over an apprenticeship for piano playing in Karlsruhe, and in 1898 the same position in Leipzig. There he was appointed professor in 1912 and remained so until his retirement in 1932. He is one of