Chamber music·Classical idiom·Vienna trained·Contemporary of Beethoven
At a glance
Catalogue
Op. 23
About the piece
Three piano trios by a composer trained in Salzburg, where he studied with Leopold Mozart and Michael Haydn, placing him at the centre of the classical tradition.
Woelfl's career took him from Vienna to Paris and finally to London, where he was celebrated as a performer and where he died in 1812, reportedly in poverty and obscurity after some years of decline.
The composer
Joseph Woelfl
1773–1812
Joseph Johann Baptist Woelfl was an Austrian pianist and composer of the late Classical period.
