When we were young, I think each of us at least once had caught himself thinking: “Why go to school? What’s the point?” Indeed, why – Julius Engelbert Röntgen didn’t and we remember him as a fine pianist and admirable Romantic composer nevertheless.
Leipzig native, Röntgen had been studying not only music but other disciplines as well privately before he sprung into fame. His legacy includes piano, violin, cello, and other concerts as well as a lot of symphonic, chamber, vocal, and piano works.
Toward the end of his life Röntgen started composing more unconventional works, abandoning the tonality, but most of them can be referred to as examples of exceptionally good absolute music. Here is one of his pieces for solo piano, Neckens Polska, Op.11. Enjoy!
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