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# Music for Fortepiano & Winds from the Biedermeier Salon
- URL: https://neuemannheimerorchester.de/projects/biedermeier-salon-piano-winds/
- Published: 2024-07-25T22:22:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T21:56:03.000Z
- Author: Anders Muskens
- Tags: #project, #Import 2026-11-09 10:24, #project-biedermeier-salon-piano-winds

This album explores music for fortepiano and solo winds from the Biedermeier period, the cultural flowering of Central Europe between 1815 and 1848\. In these years, often associated with German Romanticism, music became accessible to the middle classes and was played above all at home. Recreating that atmosphere, chamber musicians of Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester – Anders Muskens (fortepiano), Elia Celegato (clarinet) and Florencia Gómez (flute) – perform works by Hummel, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann on an original square pianoforte by Johann Gottlieb Irmler (Leipzig, 1823) and historical wind instruments.

## Programme

- **Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837)** Sonata for Flute and Pianoforte in D major, Op. 50 (1810)
- **Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)** Sonata for Clarinet and Pianoforte in E-flat major, MWV Q 15
- **Franz Schubert (1797–1828)** Introduction and Variations on “Trockne Blumen”, D. 802
- **Robert Schumann (1810–1856)** *Fantasiestücke*, Op. 73

## Musicians and credits

### Musicians

- **Anders Muskens** fortepiano
- **Elia Celegato** historical clarinet
- **Florencia Gómez** historical flute

### Instruments

- Square pianoforte (Tafelklavier) by Johann Gottlieb Irmler, Leipzig, 1823\. Six octaves, FF–f⁗; damper and moderator pedals; restored by Bart Houtgraaf, 2021
- Transverse flute after Grenser (late 18th–early 19th century), in four parts, by Rudolf Tutz, Innsbruck, 2014
- Clarinets in B-flat (2017) and A (2015), 12 keys, by Rudolf Tutz, Innsbruck
- All instruments at a = 430 Hz

### Production

- **Producer and audio engineer** Jakub Klimeš
- **Recorded** Lutherse Kerk, Delft, May–June 2021
- **Label** Leaf Music Distribution

## Produced with the support of

- [Adriana Jacoba Fonds](https://www.adrianajacobafonds.nl/?ref=neuemannheimerorchester.de)
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