Agnes Tyrrell was a composer who lived in the mid- to late-1800s in what is now the Czech Republic.
A child prodigy, she performed in her first piano recital at nine, and attended the Vienna Conservatory at sixteen.
She lived a relatively short life, but in her 36 years, she composed 39 pieces for solo piano, 55 vocal compositions ranging from songs to choral music, oratorio and opera, and several major orchestral works, and even a symphony!
However, many of these works remain unpublished, and therefore, aren't performed, or heard.
Producer Emily ate lunch with one of the Instructors of Piano at Interlochen Arts Camp this summer, and started chatting about music.
It turns out, pianist and professor Jocelyn Swigger was on a mission to publish and perform the piano works of Agnes Tyrrell.
In this episode, she tells Emily all about how she first heard about Tyrrell, how Lizst once commented on what fingerings should be used when playing Tyrrell's works, and how she's learning Tyrrell etudes on piano in order to finally release recordings of this work!
Hear snippets of these unpublished etudes in this episode of Classical Sprouts, and learn about a composer most people haven't heard about!
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