Hermann Goetz was born in 1840 at Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), the son of a brewer. He fulfilled his long-standing desire to become a musician at the age of twenty when he went to Berlin’s Stern Conservatoire in 1860. Of his teachers there, the most significant was the pianist and conductor Hans von Bülow, Liszt’s son-in-law. Three years later Goetz moved to Winterthur in Switzerland as a church organist, but this was also a doomed attempt to cure the tuberculosis he had contracted in childhood. Brahms visited in 1865, and they became uneasy friends (not uncommon in relationships with the greater man), but two years later Goetz enjoyed an annus mirabilis when he married, resumed contact with von Bülow and met Raff, who recommended him to the music publishers Breitkopf und Härtel.

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2008-07-07
• Nośnik CD