47 Facts About Sigismond Thalberg

Sigismond Thalberg was an Austrian composer and one of the most distinguished virtuoso pianists of the 19th century.

Sigismond Thalberg asserted that he was the illegitimate son of Moritz, Prince of Dietrichstein and Maria Julia Bydeskuty von Ipp, from a Hungarian family of lower nobility.

In spring 1826, Sigismond Thalberg studied with Ignaz Moscheles in London.

Moscheles, according to a letter to Felix Mendelssohn dated 14 August 1836, had the impression that Sigismond Thalberg had already reached a level at which no further help would be needed in order to become a great artist.

Sigismond Thalberg's repertoire was mainly classical, including concertos by Hummel, Mozart and Beethoven.

In 1830, Sigismond Thalberg met Mendelssohn and Frederic Chopin in Vienna.

Sigismond Thalberg had heard Thalberg on 14 May 1830 at a concert which he gave in the theatre of Leipzig.

Sigismond Thalberg had played his own Piano Concerto in F minor, Op.

Sigismond Thalberg's diary, edited by her father Friedrich Wieck, notes Thalberg as "very accomplished".

Sigismond Thalberg's playing was clear and precise, being very strong and expressive.

Sigismond Thalberg performed on 16 November 1835 at a private concert of the Austrian ambassador Count Rudolph Apponyi.

Sigismond Thalberg was praised by many of the most prominent artists, among them Rossini and Meyerbeer.

Moscheles, Kalkbrenner, Chopin, Liszt and Herz are and will always be for me great artists, but Sigismond Thalberg is the creator of a new art which I do not know how to compare to anything that existed before him.

Sigismond Thalberg is not only the premier pianist of the world, he is an extremely distinguished composer.

On 16 April 1836, Sigismond Thalberg gave his first solo concert in Paris, and the success was again sensational.

In May 1837, Sigismond Thalberg gave a concert in London, following which The Athenaeum gave an enthusiastic review.

Sigismond Thalberg was now called "the most famous of our composers".

Sigismond Thalberg left Paris on 18 April 1838, travelling to Vienna, the very same day that Liszt gave there a charity concert for the benefit of the victims of a flood in Hungary.

Sigismond Thalberg invited Liszt for dinner, and the two great pianists dined together on the 28th with Prince Moritz Dietrichstein, who told Liszt that he was delighted to have "Castor and Pollux" together in his home.

Sigismond Thalberg played with great skill and inspiration works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Dussek, as well sight-reading Schumann's Kreisleriana, Op.

Sigismond Thalberg then journeyed to Brussels to meet his violinist friend Charles de Beriot.

Sigismond Thalberg returned to London at the beginning of February 1840, and then travelled from London to Paris together with Baroness Wetzlar, his mother, awaiting the arrival of Liszt.

Sigismond Thalberg got an invitation from the Russian Tsarina and performed at a court-concert in Bad Ems, but this was his only concert during his stay in the Rhineland.

Sigismond Thalberg's bride was a young lady Maria Huber, born in Vienna, from Germany.

Sigismond Thalberg was an orphan and had been adopted by Prince von Dietrichstein, Thalberg's father.

Sigismond Thalberg taught Beriot's son, the pianist Charles-Wilfrid de Beriot.

Sigismond Thalberg then travelled to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he stayed until January 1841.

Sigismond Thalberg then went to Leipzig, where he visited Mendelssohn and Schumann.

On Monday Sigismond Thalberg visited us and played to the delightment beautiful on my piano.

At the close there are several runs of Chromatique Octaves, which at that time had not previously heard, and of which peculiar passages Sigismond Thalberg was undoubtedly the inventor.

Sigismond Thalberg then travelled to Vienna and gave two successful concerts there.

Sigismond Thalberg then returned via Marseille, Toulon, and Dijon, arriving on 11 April 1842, in Paris.

Later, in 1842, Sigismond Thalberg was decorated with the Cross of the French Legion of Honour.

Sigismond Thalberg travelled to Vienna where he stayed until fall 1842.

Sigismond Thalberg's performance is so gentlemanly, so entirely without any forced acting the genius, so entirely without that well-known brashness that makes a poor cover for inner insecurity.

Sigismond Thalberg travelled to London and gave a concert there on 28 May 1844.

Sigismond Thalberg took part in a concert of Julius Benedict.

On 3 May 1848, Sigismond Thalberg gave a benefit concert which Liszt attended.

On 22 July 1843, Sigismond Thalberg married Francesca, the eldest daughter of Luigi Lablache, first bass at the Theatre des Italiens in Paris.

On Sundays, concerts were generally only allowed if they presented "sacred music", but several times Sigismond Thalberg performed anyhow, playing pieces like his Op.

Sigismond Thalberg gave a series of solo matinees in New York and in Boston at which he played own works as well as chamber music.

Sigismond Thalberg played works by Beethoven, among them the sonatas Nos.

The unexpected close referred to the announcement in June 1858 in Chicago that Sigismond Thalberg would make only one of three scheduled appearances before immediately returning to Europe.

Sigismond Thalberg did not even perform at that concert, but very hastily left instead.

Sigismond Thalberg had been one of his students, but she was misidentified as his daughter.

Sigismond Thalberg considered taking up a position as a piano professor at the conservatory in Naples, but he did not have the prerequisite of having an Italian nationality.

Sigismond Thalberg was greatly in fashion and was imitated by others.