Max Wilhelm Carl Vogrich (24 January 1852 – 10 June 1916) was an Austrian pianist and composer. His most popular pieces are the "Passpied", "Staccato Caprice", and "Valse Brilliante".
LifeMax Vogrich was born in Hermannstadt, Transylvania (now Sibiu, Romania) on 24 January 1852. A childhood prodigy, he was an acclaimed pianist at the age of 14 years. He studied at Leipzig under Carl Reinecke, Hans Richter, Moritz Hauptmann, and Ignaz Moscheles, completing the studies in 1869. From 1870 to 1878 he was engaged in concert tours throughout continental Europe, South America, and the United States. From 1882 to 1886 he was engaged in concert tours and teaching in Australia, after which he went to New York City, where he lived for some time. He died at Post Graduate Hospital there on 10 June 1916.
His works include the operas Vanda (1875), Lanzelot (1890), King Arthur (1893), and Buddha (1904); an oratorio, The Captivity (1891); the cantatas The Young King and the Sheperdess and The Diver; several masses, symphonies, violin and pianoforte concertos, and sonatas, besides duets, songs, and chamber music.
His piano concerto was one of the more substantial works composed, along with other orchestral works, which I have not heard before. It was titled 'Grosse concerto', a large-scale work that comprised of nearly 1500 bars of music.
I. Allegro maestoso
II. Intermezzo. Lento all'improviso
III. Allegro — Presto — A tempo giusto Allegro — Molto più moderato
2-piano score is readily available in IMSLP, but the full score survived in Royal Academy of Music Library, under MS 3901, which I had currently requested, and Darrel was more than willing to commit his time to simulate this neglected masterwork.
Here is a polished sample of about 16% of the 1st movement, it was so long that it might take weeks to polish the whole.
2nd movement is done, a short intermezzo with style like Gershwin
Darrel has completed the simulation and uploaded to YT, video will be available in next 2 hours: