Paul Juon: Piano Quintet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 44

Piano Quintet No. 2 in F major, Op. 44

1. Allegro moderato (0:00)
2. Commodo (11:25)
3. Sostenuto (15:35)
4. Risoluto, irato e con impeto (23:53)

Oliver Triendl, piano
Carmina Quartett

Paul Juon (1872 – 1940) was a Russian-born Swiss composer. He was born in Moscow, where his father was an insurance official. His parents were Swiss, and he attended a German Primary school in Moscow. In 1889, he entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied violin with Jan Hřímalý and composition with Anton Arensky and Sergei Taneyev. He completed his studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, under Woldemar Bargiel. His first (privately) printed works, two Romanzen (lieder) appeared in 1894, the year he began studies with Bargiel. During his time in Berlin he was a composition professor, employed by Joseph Joachim; his students included Hans Chemin-Petit, Werner Richard Heymann, Nikos Skalkottas, Henry Jolles, Pancho Vladigerov, Philipp Jarnach, Heinrich Kaminski, Lauri Ikonen, Max Trapp, Heino Kaski, Yrjö Kilpinen, Gerhart von Westerman, Hans Moltkau, Giannis Konstantinidis, Wilhelm Guttmann, Stefan Wolpe, Nicolas Nabokov and Gunnar Johansen. He was twice married: He married his first wife in Katharina Schalchalova, married in 1896, and had three children: Ina, Aja, Ralf. Katharina died in 1911. In 1912, he married to Marie Hegner-Günthert (called Armande) and together they also had three children: Stella, Irsa and Rémi. He dedicated his Mysterien, Op 59 to Armande in 1928. His younger brother was the painter Konstantin Yuon.[4]He retired to Switzerland in 1934, and died in Vevey.