
Giovanni Sgambati ‘The Raphael of the Piano’ (1841 - 1914)
Similarities and influences with Liszt: In 1871, Giovanni Sgambati wrote of his relationship with Franz Liszt ‘we became very close.’ So, as Liszt had many talented pupils, I was interested to look more closely at their relationship and to explore the reasons why, of all his students, Sgambati should have been…
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