Johann Baptist Cramer

Fifty Studies for The Piano Complete

The life of Johann Baptist Cramer furnishes a striking illustration of the career of a man who, having exceptionally solid acquirements, has bequeathed to posterity his most valuable knowledge in an enduring form.

Both asa professional musician and as a businessman, he enjoyed uninterrupted prosperity. Born at Mannheim, Germany, on February 24, 1771, of musical German lineage - his father being a distinguished violinist, his grandfather a notedflautist - he was taken the following year to London, where his father settled permanently.

Cramer's Studies for Pianoforte are those of his works wherein the composer yet lives and labors among us. They are stilllookedupon as indispensable.