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In 1966 Lupu won the prestigious Van Cliburn Competition and took the top prize at the
Leeds International Piano Competition in 1969. Radu Lupu has made a musical home for
himself within the wealthy nineteenth century repertoire Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven, and
Brahms especially.
Barenboim has a wealthy recorded repertoire as a conductor, pianist, accompanist, and chamber
music player. In December 2007, Warner Classics released a 5CD set to celebrate Barenboim s
65th birthday titled The Pianist. The set includes selected piano works of Bach, Mozart,
Schubert Brahms, Piazzolla and others.
Franz Schubert s Trois marches militaires (Three Military Marches), D. 733 are among the
many works for piano, four hands that the composer produced across the time of his first
summer stay on the Count of Ezterházy s summer home in Zseliz (1818).
Piano, four-hand music was once, by and large, the one Schubert instrumental music that
publishers cared to buy throughout his short lifetime; the Three Military Marches, D. 733
were published in 1826 as Opus 51. Every is a true ternary (ABA) design; the central episode
is known as a trio, and the opening music is recalled, verbatim, for the closing section.