Даниел Щайбелт в историята на клавирната музика (последните десетилетия на XVIII и началото на XIX век)
Daniel Steibelt in the History of Piano Music over the Last Decades of the 18th and the Beginning of the 19th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: This article is part of a larger study examining unknown European piano music from the second half of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. This is a still underexplored period, albeit a profoundly interesting one due to the advent as well as the intensive and rapid development of a new instrument, namely the pianoforte for which a great number of pieces were composed within a very short time. A real phenomenon in the history of piano music at the turn of the two centuries was the German-born Daniel Steibelt (1765 – 1823), one of the earliest virtuosi pursuing a career as an itinerant pianist and, in the eyes of many of his contemporaries, one of the earliest Romantic composers. After his death his oeuvre fell into oblivion and by the end of the nineteenth century he was deemed to be a mediocre composer. His sole biography is riddled with errors and his works have never been republished. Presently, Daniel Steibelt’s name is only mentioned in reference to a legendary piano duel of 1800 between him and Beethoven. My study presents Steibelt as a master of piano playing and a composer of an extensive and interesting body of piano works that could enrich the pedagogical literature.

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