Playbill advertising benefit concert performance of 'Piano-Forte' by Isaac Ignaz Moscheles

Isaac Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer. He was based initially in London and later at Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as professor of piano.

In March 1823, Moscheles visited the West of England and started work on his Piano Concerto No. 4 (Op. 64). Of his visit to Bristol, he reportedly said: "What can be finer than the first view of the Welsh mountains from Clifton? an enchanting panorama? The very place to write an adagio; the blue mountains form such a grand background to this bright channel."

He returned to Bristol to perform at the Theatre Royal Bristol in 1825.

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