Composers

Robert Volkmann

Piano
Cello
Violin
Voice
Orchestra
Viola
Piano four hands
Mixed chorus
Men's chorus
Soprano
Song
Lied
Religious music
Quartet
Fantasia
Piece
Sonata
Marche
Overture
Serenade
by popularity

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2 Chorgesänge für gemischte Stimmen, Op.752 Geistliche Lieder, Op.702 Lieder für Männerstimmen, Op.582 Lieder für Mezzo Sopran, Cello und Piano, Op.563 Gedichte, Op.133 Geistliche Gesänge, Op.383 Hochzeitslieder, Op.713 Lieder für Männerchor, Op.483 Lieder, Op.163 Lieder, Op.323 Lieder, Op.523 Marches for piano 4-hands, Op.404 Marches, Op.226 Lieder, Op.306 Phantasiebilder, Op.1

A

Allegretto capriccioso, Op.15Altdeutscher Hymnus, Op.64An die Nacht, Op.45

B

Ballade and Scherzetto, Op.51Buch der Lieder, Op.17

C

Capriccio for Cello and Piano, Op.74Cavatine and Barcarole, Op.19Cello Concerto, Op.33Chant du troubadour, Op.10

D

Deutsche Tanzweisen, Op.18Die Bekehrte, Op.54Die Tageszeiten, Op.39Dithyrambe und Toccate, Op.4

F

Fantasie, Op.25aFest-Ouvertüre für grosses Orchester, Op.50

I

Intermezzo, Op.25b

K

Kirchenarie 'Suscepimus Deus', Op.65Konzertstück, Op.42

L

Lieder der Großmutter, Op.27

M

Mass No.1, Op.28Mass No.2, Op.29Musikalisches Bilderbuch, Op.11

N

Nocturne, Op.8

O

Offertorium "Osanna Domino Deo", Op.47Overture in C minorOverture to Shakespeare's Richard III, Op.68

P

Piano Sonata, Op.12Piano Trio No.1, Op.3Piano Trio No.2, Op.5

R

Rhapsodie, Op.31RheinweinliedRögtönzések, Op.36Romanze, Op.7Rondino und Marsch-Caprice, Op.55

S

Sappho, Op.49Schlummerlied, Op.76Serenade No.1, Op.62Serenade No.2, Op.63Serenade No.3, Op.69Sonatina, Op.57Souvenir de Maroth, Op.6String Quartet No.1, Op.9String Quartet No.2, Op.14String Quartet No.3, Op.34String Quartet No.4, Op.35String Quartet No.5, Op.37String Quartet No.6, Op.43Symphony No.1, Op.44Symphony No.2, Op.53Széchenyi sirjánál, Op.41

U

Ungarische Lieder, Op.20Ungarische Skizzen, Op.24

V

Variationen über ein Thema von Handel, Op.26Violin Sonatina No.1, Op.60Violin Sonatina No.2, Op.61Visegrád, Op.21

W

Wanderskizzen, Op.23Weihnachtslied aus dem 12. Jahrhundert, Op.59
Wikipedia
Friedrich Robert Volkmann, (Hungarian: Volkmann Róbert), (6 April 1815, Lommatzsch bei Meißen – 30 October 1883, Budapest) was a German composer.
Robert Volkmann was born in Lommatzsch, Saxony, Germany. His father, a music director for a church, trained him in music to prepare him as a successor. Thus Volkmann learned to play the organ and the piano with his father, studied violin and cello with Friebel, and by age 12 he was playing the cello part in string quartets by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. In 1832 he entered the Freiberg Gymnasium for the purpose of becoming a teacher. There he studied music with August Ferdinand Anacker, who encouraged him to devote himself to music more fully. From there he went on to Leipzig in 1836 to study with Carl Ferdinand Becker. In Leipzig he met Robert Schumann, who encouraged him in his studies. They met again several times after that.
When he finished his studies, he began working as voice teacher at a music school in Prague. He did not stay there long, and in 1841 he moved to Budapest, where he was employed as a piano teacher and a reporter for the Allgemeine Wiener Musik-Zeitung.
After a short period of freelance work, he became the choirmaster and organist of a Reform synagogue in 1848. He composed in virtual obscurity until 1852, when his Piano Trio in B-flat minor caught the ears of Franz Liszt and Hans von Bülow, who proceeded to play it several times all over Europe. In 1854 Volkmann moved to Vienna, only to return to Budapest in 1858.
Thanks to the publisher Gustav Heckenast, who in 1857 bought the rights to publish all Volkmann's works in exchange for regular income regardless of sales, Volkmann was able to fully dedicate himself to composition, until Heckenast closed down his Budapest publishing house in the early 1870s.
While visiting Vienna in 1864, Volkmann became acquainted with Johannes Brahms, and they became close friends. In letters they addressed each other as "lieber Freund" ("dear friend").
From the 1870s Volkmann slowed down and composed very little. From 1875 until his death, he was professor of harmony and counterpoint at Budapest's National Academy of Music, where Liszt was the director. Volkmann died in Budapest on 30 October 1883.