Maria Szymanowska - Selected Works for Piano

00:00 Fantasy (Mikhail Dubov) 10:34 Prelude No.2 from 20 preludes (Anna Petrova Forster) 12:13 Prelude No.6 from 20 preludes (Anna Ciborowska) 15:14 Prelude from 20 preludes (Anna Ciborowska) 17:04 Prelude from 20 preludes (Slawomir Dobrzanski) 19:09 Nocturne “le murmure“ (Anna Ciborowska) 23:45 Nocturne in B flat Major (Tobias Koch) 29:01 Caprice sur la Romance de Joconde (Anna Ciborowska) Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831) was a Polish Composer and Pianist. The history of her early years and especially her musical studies is uncertain; she appears to have studied piano with Antoni Lisowski and Tomasz Gremm, and composition with Franciszek Lessel, Józef Elsner and Karol Kurpiński. She gave her first public recitals in Warsaw and Paris in 1810. Her professional piano career began in 1815, with performances in England in 1818, a tour of Western Europe 1823–1826, including both public and private performances in Germany, France, England (on multiple occasions), Italy, Belgium and Holland. Her playing