Johann David Brünings (fl. c.1780-1799)
- Sonata (II, C-Dur) pour le Piano Forte, Op.1 (1792)
Performers: Andrew Zοlіnsky (piano)
Further info: Goethe Lieder Chamber Music
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German composer. Neither his date of birth nor that of his death is
known. We know only that he came from Hessen, lived in Zurich from the
mid- 1780s until 1799, and thereafter departed for St Petersburg. Of his
further career, nothing is known at all. He was somehow related on odd
terms with Philipp Christoph Kayser in Zurich. David Hess, a member of
Kayser’s masonic lodge and a friend of both men, wrote that ‘[Brünings
was] just as excellent an eccentric as our brother Kayser. . . These two
men, so similar in nature, never came together, although they lived for
ten years in the same place. Far removed from any petty tradesman’s
jealousy, they spoke with great respect of each other, but neither
wished to take steps that would have led to closer relations with the
other. And so they remained apart who could have done so much together.
Neither of these excellent musicians ever even heard the other play.’ As
a composer, only three opus numbers are known to have survived: 3 piano
sonatas op. 1; 3 piano sonatinas op. 2; and 3 piano trios op. 3.
Brünings is of importance to the history of music in Zurich since he was
the teacher of Hans Georg Nägeli, the Zurich pedagogue and music
publisher. It was also Nägeli who published Brünings’ sonatas.
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