Tomasz Kamieniak * Walter Niemann: Pno Music Vol. 3 [New CD] Reggae Pauvre Songe

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Tomasz Kamieniak * Walter Niemann: Pno Music Vol. 3 [New CD] Reggae Pauvre SongeThe largest part of the output of the Hamburg born composer and writer Walter Niemann (1876 1953), a student of both Humperdinck and Reinecke, is piano music: an astonishing 1,000 or so pieces, divided into 189 opus numbers. Most of them are lyrical miniatures in a warm and approachable late Romantic style, some evoking the music of the past often with a touching degree of dignity and restraint, but also with an occasional flash of good humour. The