Ladislav Aloiz - Piano Trio in F Major, Op. 40

0:00 I. Allegro con spirito 10:16 II. Andante con passione 15:59 III. Allegro giocoso Ladislav Aloiz (1860-1918) was a Czech composer and cellist, mainly active in Russia. After a successful graduation from the Prague conservatory, Aloiz was invited to join the faculty of the Music School of the Russian Musical Society (RMO) in Kyiv. At the time, several of his fellow countrymen were already active there (Otakar Ševčík, Karel Duda, Váša Suk). In 1886, Aloiz became a professor at the Music Institute in Warsaw, where he also played in the opera orchestra and participated in concerts. One of his students there remembered him as: "an excellent cellist, equally skilled at the piano and an extraordinarily demanding teacher." - His knowledge of the piano is very apparent in the trio. In 1891, Aloiz moved to Odessa, where he taught at the Music School (1891–1893) and served as concertmaster of the opera orchestra. A notable event during Aloiz's time in Odessa was his meeting with Tchaikovsky, who visited Odesa in the final year of his life (January 12–25, 1893). In a concert of the composer’s works on January 16, 1893, Aloiz performed Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme with orchestra under the composer’s baton. This was likely the only, or at least the last, performance of this work conducted by Tchaikovsky himself. According to some accounts, during his visit, Tchaikovsky sat at the piano and shared with Aloiz sketches for a cello concerto he had begun to envision. From 1905, he taught cello at the St. Petersburg conservatory until his death in 1918, shortly after the October revolution. As a composer, Aloiz left behind two cello concertos, sonatas for violin and piano and for cello and piano (in D major), a piano trio, orchestral works and piano and cello pieces. performed by the Brahms Trio