Dussek

[ doo-sik ]

noun

1. Jan La·di·slav [yahn , lah, -dyi-slahf], 1760–1812, Czech pianist and composer.

Example Sentences

Mr. Bavouzet’s inquisitive look at the musicians who were composing at the same time as their colleague and competitor features Muzio Clementi, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Jan Ladislav Dussek — but it’s the forgotten Joseph Wölfl, who once battled Beethoven in a duel of keyboard skills, who comes out best, in this immaculate, charming sonata.

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Clementi, Hummel, Dussek are names, somehow, we know of; they are not played much, but you know of them.

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The Dussek and the Clementi have been in my repertoire for a good 25 years or so.

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The Dussek was a very strange discovery.

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Clementi published Beethoven’s works; Hummel knew Beethoven well enough to visit him on his deathbed; and Beethoven seems to have plagiarized Dussek for the slow movement of his First Piano Concerto.

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