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Josef Paul Labor (29 June 1842 – 26 April 1924) was an Austrian pianist, organist, and composer of the late Romantic era. Labor was an influential music teacher. As a friend of some key figures in Vienna, his importance was enhanced.
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Josef Paul Labor (29 June 1842 – 26 April 1924) was an Austrian pianist, organist, and composer of the late Romantic era. Labor was an influential music teacher. As a friend of some key figures in Vienna, his importance was enhanced.
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Biography Labor was born in the town of Hořovice in Bohemia to Josef Labor, an administrator of ironworks, and his wife Josefa Wallner, who came from a family of doctors. Both his parents came from Viennese families. His father belonged to the circle of Schubert-Friends and had been in his younger years a composer himself. At the age of three, he was left blind due to contracting smallpox. He attended the Institute for the Blind in Vienna and the Konservatorium der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music) where he studied composition with Simon Sechter (teacher of Bruckner), and piano with Eduard Pirkhert (student of Anton Halm and Czerny). He toured Europe as a pianist and, in the process, formed lasting friendships with King George V of Hanover, who was also blind, and with Joseph Joachim, whom he met at Hanover. George named him Royal Chamber Pianist in 1865. In 1866, Labor followed the king's exile and settled in Vienna, where he became a piano teacher, while continuing to compose and perform. In 1875 he also took organ lessons with Johann Evangelist Habert and became a distinguished organist himself. In 1904, Labor received the title Kaiserlich…
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Selected works Phantasie über ein Originalthema für 2 Klaviere op 1 (1868) Scherzo in Canonform für 2 Klaviere op 2 (1880) Quintett für Klavier, Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Kontrabass op 3 (1880) Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Czerny für Klavier (1890) Sonate für Violine und Klavier op. 5 (1892) Klavierquartett Nr. 1 C-Dur op. 6 (1893) Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier A-Dur op. 7 (1895)
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Fünf Klavierstücke op 8 (1897) Phantasie für Orgel über die österreichische Volkshymne op 9 (1898) Thema und Variationen für Horn oder Violoncello und Klavier op. 10 (1896) Quintett für Klarinette, Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Pianoforte op. 11 (1900) Orgel-Phantasie e-moll für zwei Spieler op 12 (1903) 2 Improvisationen (Benedicamus domino; Ite missa est) op 13 (?, Print 1912) Choralvorspiel über "Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten" für Harmonium op 14 (1903) Orgelsonate h-moll op. 15 (?, Print 1912) Pater noster, Chor, Orgel, Streichorchester op 16 (1876, Print 1912)
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Streichquartett C-Dur (1888) Thema, Variationen und Fuge über eine schottische Tanzweise (Sir Roger de Coverley) für Orchester (1899) Big Ben Capriccio für 2 Klaviere (1901) "Edward" – Ballade für Gesang und Klavier (1903) Konzert für Violine und Orchester G-Dur (1905) 17 Praeludien über Intonationen der wichtigsten Choral-Offertorien nach der Editio Vaticana 1908 (1910)
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3 Interludes für Orgel 1914) 2. Sonate A-Dur für Klavier und Violine (1914) Konzertstück I für Klavier (linke Hand) und Orchester (1915) Konzertstück II für Klavier (linke Hand) und Orchester (1916) 3. Sonate E-Dur für Klavier (linke Hand) und Violine (1916) Klavierquartett Nr. 2 c-moll (1916) (linke Hand) Quintett für Oboe, Klarinette, Horn. Fagott und Klavier (linke Hand) (1921) Divertimento/Serenade für Flöte, Oboe, Viola, Cello, Klavier (linke Hand) (1923) Konzertstück III für Klavier (linke Hand) und Orchester (1923)
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Sources Program notes by Bonnie H. Campbell for the Cedille Records "Twilight of the Romantics: Chamber Music by Walter Rabl and Josef Labor" (CD 90000 088) Michael Wittmann, Josef Labor – Werkchronologie, Berlin 2020, https://mwmusikverlag.wordpress.com/2020/11/04/josef-labor-werkchronologie/