Tobias Bigger - Morceaux Pour PianoTheodor Leschetizky, born 1830, was a pianist and an internationally renowned and sought after mentor to a large number of pianists. Although Leschetitzky was also active as a composer, his music is largely ignored nowadays, and in his liner notes Tobias Bigger relates how he came across it indirectly, through an interest in Ignaz Friedman, one of Leschetizky's most famous students. Much of Leschetitzky's production consists of character pieces for

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the funkier side of jazz

Their self-titled debut

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