Biography of the Day: Jan Ladislav Dussek

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Engraved portrait of Dussek, published in 1867

Jan Ladislav Dussek (baptized Jan Václav Dusík,^[1] with surname also written as Duschek or Düssek; 12 February 1760 – 20 March 1812) was a Czech composer and pianist. He was an important representative of Czech music abroad in the second half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Some of his more forward-looking piano works have traits often associated with Romanticism.^[2]

Dussek was one of the first piano virtuosos to travel widely throughout Europe. He performed at courts and concert venues from London to Saint Petersburg to Milan, and was celebrated for his technical prowess. During a nearly ten-year stay in London, he was instrumental in extending the size of the pianoforte, and was the recipient of one of John Broadwood's first 6-octave pianos, CC-c4. Harold Schonberg wrote that he was the first pianist to sit at the piano with his profile to the audience, earning him the appellation "le beau visage." All subsequent pianists have sat on stage in this manner. He was one of the best-regarded pianists in Europe before Beethoven's rise to prominence.

His music is marked by lyricism interrupted by sudden dynamic contrasts. Not only did he write prolifically for the piano, he was an important composer for the harp. His music for that instrument contains a great variety of figuration within a largely diatonic harmony, avoids dangerous chromatic passages and is eminently playable. His concerto writing is exciting. His music is considered standard repertoire for all harpists, particularly his Six Sonatas/Sonatinas and especially the Sonata in C minor. Less well known to the general public than that of his more renowned Classical period contemporaries, his piano music is highly valued by many teachers and not infrequently programmed.^{[citation needed]} Franz Liszt has been called an indirect successor of Dussek in the composition and performance of virtuoso piano music.^{[citation needed]} His music remained popular to some degree in 19th-century Great Britain and the USA, and some of it is still in print, with much more becoming available in period editions found online.

Life

Memorial plaque in Čáslav, his birthplace

Early years

The Dussek family has an extraordinarily long history as professional musicians, starting at least as early as Jan Ladislav's grandfather Jan Josef Dusík (b. 1712), and lasting in the Moravian branch of the family at least into the 1970s. Jan Ladislav's mother, Veronika Dusíková (née Štěbetová), played the harp, an instrument, along with the piano, for which her son went on to write much music.^[1] His father, Jan Josef, was also a well-known organist and composer.^[3] His sister, Katerina Veronika Anna Dusíkova, was also a musician and composer.

Jan Ladislav, the oldest of three children, was born on 12 February 1760 in the Bohemian town of Čáslav, where his father taught and played the organ.^[4][5] His first musical instruction came from his father, who began teaching him piano at 5, and organ at age 9.^[6] His voice was also found to be good, so he also sang in the church choir.^[7]

St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen.

He studied music at the Jesuit gymnasium in Jihlava, where he studied with Ladislav Špinar, its choir director; his grades were reported to be poor. From 1774 to 1776 he studied at the Jesuit gymnasium in Kutná Hora, where he also served as organist in the Santa Barbara Jesuit church.^[8] In 1776 he went to the New City Gymnasium in Prague, where he was again reported to be a lazy student. In 1777 he enrolled in the University of Prague, where he lasted one semester.^[9]

Netherlands and Hamburg

After these early studies in Bohemia he entered the services of one Captain Männer, an Austrian military man, in 1778.^[10] Dussek traveled with the Captain to what has since become Belgium in 1779, where he became the organist at the St. Rumbold's cathedral in Mechelen.^[1] In Mechelen he gave his first public recital, playing his own compositions.^[10] He then travelled to the Dutch Republic, where a well-received concert in Amsterdam brought him to the royalty's attention. He was invited to The Hague, where he gave lessons to the three children of Stadtholder William V.^[11] While at the Hague he gave a performance before Kaiser Joseph II of Austria, who acknowledged Dussek's prowess.^[12]

By 1782, after leaving Männer's service, he was in Hamburg, where he gave a concert on the "new English fortepiano".^[12] While in Hamburg, he may have studied with C. P. E. Bach.^[13] He also published his first works, three piano concertos and 3 violin sonatas (C 2–7), all of which were assigned Opus 1.^[14]

Eastern and Central Europe

From Hamburg he moved to St. Petersburg, where he was a favorite of Catherine the Great. While there he was introduced to a technician named Hessel, who had developed a keyboard version of the glass harmonica, an instrument Dussek went on to master.^[15][16] Dussek was forced to leave Russia quite abruptly, just ahead of Catherine's secret police, amid suspicions of his involvement in a plot to assassinate Catherine.^[17] In a possibly apocryphal tale surrounding his departure, he was en route to play for Catherine when he found a ring, which he put on. Catherine recognized the ring as belonging to a known conspirator, raising her suspicions about Dussek.^[18]

Marie Antoinette was one of Dussek's patrons.

After Dussek left St. Petersburg, he took a position as music director for Prince Antoni Radziwiłł in Lithuania, where he stayed about a year. His departure from Lithuania may have been prompted by an affair he was rumored to have with the Prince's wife, the Princess of Thurn und Taxis.^[19] He toured Germany for the next few years as a virtuoso performer on the piano and on the glass harmonica,^[1] eventually arriving in Paris in 1786.^[20] The German tour was a significant success for him. One review of a Berlin concert said, "He obtained great distinction as a pianist, and was little less admired for his playing on the [glass] harmonica ... some critics pretend to trace to his skill upon this instrument many of his specialities of style both as a pianist and composer".^[21] Another reviewer wrote, of a concert in Kassel, "He entranced all listeners with a slow, harmonic, and studiously modulated prelude and chorale."^[22] He may also have been in Ludwigslust in 1786, where he would have performed his Extract from an Easter Canata (C 26) for the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.^[23]

France and Italy

In Paris Dussek became a favorite of Marie Antoinette, who tried to dissuade him from going on a performing tour to Milan in 1788.^[17] However, she was unsuccessful, as Dussek wanted to visit his brother Franz in Milan. Dussek's trip to Milan was quite successful; his performances "produce[d] quite a sensation".^[24] He returned to Paris, where he stayed until shortly before the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789. During his time in Paris he may have met and played with a violinist by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte. He also published a series of violin sonatas (C 27–29) dedicated to Eugénie de Beaumarchais, daughter of writer Pierre Beaumarchais.^[25]

London

Portrait of Dussek (unknown date and author).

Dussek left France for England in May or June 1789, where he settled in London.^[17] It is sometimes alleged that he took with him the harpist wife of the composer Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz, who drowned himself into the Seine as a consequence; however, this is likely untrue, as Anne-Marie Krumpholtz went to London in 1788.^[26][27] It is also uncertain whether he left Paris because of the looming crisis in France, or if it was merely coincidental. Early biographers have generally claimed that he left because of the impending revolution.^[28] He is reported to have had a concert engagement in London in early June 1789; this would have required his departure from Paris before some of the critical steps early in the Revolution.^[29]

Dussek made London his home until 1799. By 1790 he was well established as a performer and teacher. He was in such demand that Davison, in an 1860 biographic sketch, noted that "he became one of the most fashionable professors of the day, and his lessons were both sought with avidity and remunerated at a rate of payment which knew no precedent except in the instance of John Cramer."^[30] He had also established a relationship with pianomaker John Broadwood, taking delivery of one of the very first 5 ½ octave pianos (FF-c4): Broadwood noted in his business journal for 13th. November 1793: "We have made some 5 ½ octave grands these three years past, the first to please Dussek, which being liked, Cramer junior had one".^[31] His collaboration with Broadwood would continue to bear fruit when, in 1794, he also received the first 6-octave (CC-c4) piano^[32]

I am happy to inform you that you have an upstanding, polite, and musically gifted son. I love him as you do, as he has earned it. Give him your blessing, so that he will be always happy, something that I wish for him, given his great talents.

Joseph Haydn, in a letter to Dussek's father, February 26, 1792^[33]

In the spring of 1791, Dussek appeared in a series of concerts, a number of which featured Sophia, the young daughter of music publisher Domenico Corri. In a concert on 15 June that year, the pair played a piano duet together; they were married in September 1792.^[34] Sophia Corri was a singer, pianist, and harpist who became known in her own right. They had a daughter, Olivia, but the marriage was not happy, involving liaisons by both parties.^[35]

Some of the concerts in 1791 and 1792 featured both Dussek and Joseph Haydn; the older Haydn wrote quite favorably of Dussek in a letter to the latter's father following one of the 1792 concerts. The other highlights of 1792 (above and beyond his marriage to Sophia) included the beginning of a music publishing venture with Sophia's father Domenico. This business, while successful at first, fared poorly in later years, and the circumstances of its failure spurred Dussek to leave London in 1799, leaving Corri in debtors' prison.^[36]

Dussek's business acumen apparently had little impact on his performing and composing while in London. Every year, he performed in a series of concerts, at least some of which also featured Sophia, and which frequently featured new works. Some works were so successful they were repeated at later concerts in the series. Of one work, a reviewer wrote in 1798, "Dussek's Military Concerto was repeated. We think it very deserving of encomium." The concerto (C 153), which the reviewer reported as having been a repeat performance, was played again the following week.^[37]

In 1796, Dussek and his wife began having serious marital troubles. In an account of uncertain veracity, it was reported that Sophia, who had fallen in love with another man, asked Dussek for money to repair her harp. She then used the money to leave the house, removing her belongings in her harp case, and claiming to have left for dinner with a female friend. A suspicious Dussek went with his father-in-law to the man's house, where Sophia locked herself in. She and Dussek argued, and she cursed him, claiming to be pregnant by the other man. Dussek, relenting, promised her freedom to do what she wanted; this led to a reconciliation of sorts. It seems unlikely that Dussek ever saw Sophia and his daughter Olivia after he left London in 1799; Sophia had to wait until she knew Dussek had died before she could remarry, which she did in 1812.^[38]

Some of Dussek's compositions included arrangements of operatic and theatrical overtures for piano. He decided to try his hand at opera in 1798; the result was The Captive of Spilberg, with a libretto by Prince Hoare. The opera opened at Drury Lane on 14 November 1798, and the music was well received,^[39] with the European Magazine's critic writing, "the music, by Mr. Dussek, was such as to intitle him to rank with the first composers of the time."^[40]

Though the plot may be considered of a nature rather too gloomy for an after-piece, it possesses a considerable degree of interest ... Mr. Dussek, in the music which is entirely new, has displayed a complete knowledge of the principles of the art. ... The melody throughout is natural and the choruses are, without exception, as perfect specimens as we can find in the works of the theatrical composers of the present day. The overture ... was received with repeated plaudits.

Review of The Captive of Spilberg in The Times^[41]

Business failure

In 1799, the business venture with Corri, which had never been very successful, ran into financial difficulties. Dussek and Corri managed to convince the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte to lend them money to cover their debts. The failure to repay this debt put Corri into Newgate Prison and caused Dussek to flee. Da Ponte believed that Dussek fled to Paris; in fact he returned to Hamburg. The affair ended up bankrupting both Corri and Da Ponte.^[42]

Dussek then toured Germany, where he became one of the first "glamour" pianists, preceding Franz Liszt.^[43] According to Louis Spohr, Dussek was the first to turn the piano sideways on the stage "so that the ladies could admire his handsome profile."^[43] Before long he took up a position with Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, who treated him more as a friend and colleague than as an employee. Together, they sometimes enjoyed what were called "musical orgies." When Prince Louis Ferdinand was killed in the Battle of Saalfeld, Dussek wrote the moving Sonata in F sharp minor, Elégie harmonique, Op. 61 (C 211).^[44]

Jan Ladislav Dussek, detail of a drawing by Pierre Condé.

Later years

In 1807, despite his earlier affiliation with Marie Antoinette, Dussek returned to Paris in the employ of Talleyrand, the powerful French foreign minister.^[44] Having no doubt made the acquaintance of Sébastien Érard in London, he became closely associated with the Érard brothers' piano-making activities, signing an Érard grand piano of 1808 still to be seen at Talleyrand's château at Valençay,^[45] and giving the first public performance on their new stirrup-action grand in 1810. He wrote a powerful sonata (Sonata in A flat major, Op. 64, C 221) called Le Retour à Paris (The Return to Paris). This imposing sonata also received the nickname Plus Ultra in heated response to a piano sonata by Joseph Woelfl, said to be the last word in pianistic difficulties, entitled Non Plus Ultra. The remainder of his life he spent performing, teaching and composing in Prussia and France. His personal beauty had faded and he became grossly fat. He also developed a fondness for strong drink which probably hastened his death. Dussek died of gout on 20 March 1812, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.^[46]

Style

Dussek was a predecessor of the Romantic composers for piano, especially Chopin, Schumann and Mendelssohn.^[44] Many of his works are strikingly at odds with the prevailing late Classical style of other composers of the time. However, despite his departure from the mainstream idiom of contemporaries like Haydn and Mozart, Dussek's stylistic influence over later composers was limited since his works remained highly obscure and largely unknown outside England. The evolution of style found in Dussek's piano writing suggests he pursued an independent line of development, one that anticipated but did not influence early Romanticism.

His more notable works include several large-scale solo piano pieces, piano sonatas, many piano concertos, sonatas for violin and piano, a musical drama, and various works of chamber music, including a Trio for piano, horn and violin, and the highly unusual sonata for piano, violin, cello and percussion entitled The Naval Battle and Total Defeat of the Dutch by Admiral Duncan (1797, C 152), which is an extremely rare example of pre-20th-century chamber music that includes percussion.

Solo piano works

The opening of Dussek's Grand Sonata in F minor, Op. 77. Play (help·info)

Dussek was one of a number of foreign-born composers, including Muzio Clementi and John Field, who contributed significantly to the development of a distinct "London" school of pianoforte composition. In part, this was due to the particular nature of piano manufacture in England. Joseph Haydn, for instance, composed his famous E-flat sonata after playing a piano of greater range lent to him by Dussek.^[47] Much of Dussek's piano writing drew upon the more modulable and powerful tonal qualities and greater keyboard range of English-manufactured pianofortes. The enhanced possibilities offered by the instrument help explain some of his stylistic innovations.

Dussek wrote numerous solo piano works, including 34 Piano Sonatas as well as a number of programmatic compositions. His The Sufferings of the Queen of France (composed in 1793, C 98), for example, is an episodic account of Marie Antoinette with interpolated texts relating to the Queen's misfortunes, including her sorrow at being separated from her children and her final moments on the scaffold before the guillotine.

Along with Clementi, Dussek may have been a source of stylistic inspiration and influence for Beethoven, whose expansion upon the idiomatic innovations of the London school led to their rapid penumbration with the appearance of Beethoven's own keyboard works.^[48] Stylistic, melodic, dynamic and even structural similarities have been observed, for instance, between Beethoven's Sonata Opus 10, No. 3 and Dussek's Sonatas Opus 31, No. 2 and Opus 35, No. 2.^[49] Similarly, the opening of Beethoven's Sonata Opus 10, No. 1 quotes directly Dussek's Sonata Opus 39, No. 3 (see image).

The opening of Dussek's Sonata Opus 39/3 Play (help·info) and Beethoven's Opus 10/1 Play (help·info).

It is also possible that Dussek's influence can be seen in Beethoven's famous Sonata Opus 81a, les Adieux: "both the program and the realization owed a great deal to Dussek's The Farewell, Opus 44."^[50]

Piano concertos

Dussek composed a number of piano concertos between 1779 and 1810, eighteen of which survive. Dussek introduced one noteworthy stylistic innovation to the piano concerto form. In variance with the prevailing classical concerto style, exemplified by Mozart's piano concertos, Dussek eliminated the soloist cadenza in the opening movement in all of his concertos written after 1792.^[51] Other individual characteristics are also noteworthy. His Concerto in C major, Op. 29, published in 1795, starts with an introductory Larghetto in 3/8 time, a solemn thematic declamation that is unique to the classical concerto. His last surviving work in the genre, Opus 70 in E-flat major, was one of the first to lengthen substantially the opening movement: at 570 measures long, it is roughly a third longer than his previous contributions,^[52] and foreshadows the practice of a dominant opening movement in concerto writing, found, for example, in the concertos of Chopin and the two minor concerti Opus 85 and Opus 89 by Johann Nepomuk Hummel as well as Beethoven's fifth.

Innovations to the piano

Apart from his own music, Dussek is important in the history of music because of his friendship with John Broadwood, the developer of the "English Action" piano. Because his own music demanded strength and range not available in the then current pianos,^[53] he pushed Broadwood into several extensions of the range and sonority of the instrument. It was a Broadwood instrument with Dussek's improvements that was sent to Beethoven.^[54]

Dussek was also the first composer to write indications for using piano pedals.^[55]

Works list

Main article: List of compositions by Jan Ladislav Dussek

The vast majority of Dussek's music involves the piano or harp in some way. He wrote 35 sonatas for piano and 11 for piano duet, as well as numerous other works for both configurations. His chamber music output includes 65 violin sonatas, 24 piano (or harp) trios, and a variety of works for harp, harp or piano, or harp and piano. Some sonatas had trio parts added by J. B. Cramer. Orchestral works were limited to concertos, including 16 for piano (one of them had lost and two of them are remained dubious attribution), six for harp (three of them lost), and one for two pianos. He wrote a modest number of vocal works, include 12 songs, a cantata, a mass, and one opera, The Captive of Spilberg. His compositions also included arrangements of other works, especially opera overtures, for piano.

Cataloging Dussek's compositions has a history of its own. Dussek's oeuvre has historically been difficult to organize, due in part to the number of publishers who originally published his work, and to the fact that some of his works were published by more than one publisher. Some works published by multiple publishers were assigned different opus numbers; sometimes different works were given then same opus number by different publishers.^[56] Dussek further complicated this by arranging works for different instrument combinations.

The Artaria Company published a thematic catalog of his works that is incomplete,^[56] prompting Howard Craw to develop a new thematic catalog in 1964. Works are numbered in the order they were written prefixed by "C" or "Craw"; works of dubious origin are listed in a separately numbered section prefixed by "Craw D".^[57]

Craw 1 \ Keyboard Concerto in B-flat major (apparently lost)^[3]
Craw 2 \ Keyboard Concerto Op. 1 No. 1 in C major
Craw 3 \ Keyboard Concerto Op. 1 No. 2 in E-flat major
Craw 4 \ Keyboard Concerto Op. 1 No. 3 in G major
Craw 5 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 1 No. 1 in B-flat major (No. 32)
Craw 6 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 1 No. 2 in G major (No. 33)
Craw 7 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 1 No. 3 in C major (No. 34)
Craw 8 \ Overture to Le droit d'ainesse for keyboard in D major
Craw 9 \ Overture to Zémire et Azor for keyboard in D major
Craw 10 \ "General Suwarrow's March" arranged for piano in E-flat major
Craw 11 \ Piano Trio Op. 1 (1786) No. 1 (lost)
Craw 12 \ Piano Trio Op. 1 (1786) No. 2 (lost)
Craw 13 \ Piano Trio Op. 1 (1786) No. 3 (lost)
Craw 14 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 2 No. 1 in C major (No. 35)
Craw 15 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 2 No. 2 in F major (No. 36)
Craw 16 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 2 No. 3 in C minor (No. 37)
Craw 17 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 46 No. 1 in C major
Craw 18 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 46 No. 2 in F major
Craw 19 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 46 No. 3 in B-flat major
Craw 20 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 46 No. 4 in C major
Craw 21 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 46 No. 5 in D major
Craw 22 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 46 No. 6 in G major
Craw 23 \ Sonata for piano & flute Op. 51 No. 1 in G major (No. 45)
Craw 24 \ Sonata for piano & flute Op. 51 No. 2 in D major (No. 46)
Craw 25 \ Sonata for piano & flute Op. 51 No. 3 in C major (No. 47)
Craw 26 \ Easter Cantata in C major
Craw 27 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 1 No. 1 in C major (No. 38)
Craw 28 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 1 No. 2 in B-flat major (No. 39)
Craw 29 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 1 No. 3 in F major (No. 40)
Craw 30 \ Piano Trio Op. 2 No. 1 in C major
Craw 31 \ Piano Trio Op. 2 No. 2 in B-flat major
Craw 32 \ Piano Trio Op. 2 No. 3 in E minor
Craw 33 \ Keyboard Concerto Op. 3 in E-flat major
Craw 34 \ Piano Trio Op. 1 (1787) No. 1 (lost)
Craw 35 \ Piano Trio Op. 1 (1787) No. 2 (lost)
Craw 36 \ Piano Trio Op. 1 (1787) No. 3 (lost)
Craw 37 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 4 No. 1 in F major (No. 41)
Craw 38 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 4 No. 2 in E-flat major (No. 42)
Craw 39 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 4 No. 3 in F minor (No. 30)
Craw 40 \ Piano Sonatina in G major Op. 20 No. 1
Craw 41 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 5 No. 1 in G major (No. 43)
Craw 42 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 5 No. 2 in B-flat major (No. 44)
Craw 43 \ Keyboard Sonata Op. 5 No. 3 in A-flat major (No. 29)
Craw 44 \ Petit air connu varié for keyboard Op. 6 No. 1 in E-flat major
Craw 45 \ Petit air connu varié for keyboard Op. 6 No. 2 in F major
Craw 46 \ Petit air connu varié for keyboard Op. 6 No. 3 in A major
Craw 47 \ Petit air connu varié for keyboard Op. 6 No. 4 in D minor
Craw 48 \ Petit air connu varié for keyboard Op. 6 No. 5 in G minor
Craw 49 \ Petit air connu varié for keyboard Op. 6 No. 6 in G minor
Craw 50 \ Sonata for keyboard & flute Op. 7 No. 1 in C major (No. 48)
Craw 51 \ Sonata for keyboard & flute Op. 7 No. 2 in G major (No. 49)
Craw 52 \ Sonata for keyboard & flute Op. 7 No. 3 in E-flat major (No. 50)
Craw 53 \ Harp Concerto Op. 15 in E-flat major
Craw 54a \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 8 No. 1 in C major (No. 51)
Craw 54b \ Piano Trio Op. 20 No. 1 in C major
Craw 55a \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 8 No. 2 in F major (No. 52)
Craw 55b \ Piano Trio Op. 20 No. 3 in F major
Craw 56a \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 8 No. 3 in A major (No. 53)
Craw 56b \ Piano Trio Op. 20 No. 2 in A major
Craw 57 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 9 No. 1 in B-flat major (No. 1)
Craw 58 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 9 No. 2 in C major (No. 2)
Craw 59 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 9 No. 3 in D major (No. 3)
Craw 60 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 10 No. 1 in A major (No. 4)
Craw 61 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 10 No. 2 in G minor (No. 5)
Craw 62 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 10 No. 3 in E major (No. 6)
Craw 63 \ Duet for harp & piano Op. 11 in F major
Craw 64 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 12 No. 1 in F major (No. 54)
Craw 65 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 12 No. 2 in B-flat major (No. 55)
Craw 66 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 12 No. 3 in C major (No. 56)
Craw 67 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 13 No. 1 in B-flat major (No. 57)
Craw 68 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 13 No. 2 in D major (No. 58)
Craw 69 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 13 No. 3 in G major (No. 59)
Craw 70 \ Romance de Figaro for keyboard (lost)
Craw 71 \ Piano Sonata Op. 14 No. 1 in C major (No. 60)
Craw 72 \ Piano Sonata Op. 14 No. 2 in G major (No. 61)
Craw 73 \ Piano Sonata Op. 14 No. 3 in F major (No. 62)
Craw 74 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 16 No. 1 in C major (No. 63)
Craw 75 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 16 No. 2 in F major (No. 64)
Craw 76 \ Sonata for keyboard & violin Op. 16 No. 3 in G major (No. 65)
Craw 77 \ Keyboard Concerto Op. 14 in F major
Craw 78 \ Keyboard Concerto Op. 17 in F major
Craw 79 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 18 No. 1 in B-flat major (No. 66)
Craw 80 \ Piano Sonata Op. 18 No. 2 in A minor (No. 7)
Craw 81 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 18 No. 3 in E-flat major (No. 31)
Craw 82 \ Air de Calpigi varié for piano in C major
Craw 83 \ Variations for keyboard on a theme by Salieri (lost)
Craw 84 \ Favorite air varied for keyboard in B-flat major
Craw 85 \ Favorite air varied for keyboard in C major
Craw 86 \ Favorite air varied for keyboard in F major
Craw 87 \ "God Save the King" with variations for piano in C major
Craw 88 \ Sonata for keyboard & flute Op. 19,20 No. 1 in G major
Craw 89 \ Sonata for keyboard & flute Op. 19,20 No. 2 in C major
Craw 90 \ Sonata for keyboard & flute Op. 19,20 No. 3 in F major
Craw 91 \ Sonata for keyboard & flute Op. 19,20 No. 4 in A major
Craw 92 \ Sonata for keyboard & flute Op. 19,20 No. 5 in C major
Craw 93 \ Sonata for keyboard & flute Op. 19,20 No. 6 in E-flat major
Craw 94 \ Trio for piano, flute & cello Op. 21 in C major
Craw 95 \ "The Rosary" arranged for piano in B-flat major
Craw 96 \ Piano Sonata Op. 24 in B-flat major (No. 8)
Craw 97 \ Piano Concerto Op. 22 in B-flat major
Craw 98 \ "The Sufferings of the Queen of France" for keyboard Op. 23 in C minor
Craw 99 \ Favorite song arranged as a rondo for keyboard in F major
Craw 100 \ "Rosline Castle" with variations for piano in C minor
Craw 101 \ "Within a mile of Edinburgh" with variations for keyboard in B-flat major
Craw 102 \ Duet for harp & piano Op. 26 in F major
Craw 103 \ "Lord Howe's Hornpipe" arranged for piano in F major
Craw 104 \ Piano Concerto Op. 27 in F major
Craw 105 \ "Viotti's favorite polacca" arranged for piano in A major
Craw 106 \ Leçon progressive for keyboard Op. 32 No. 1 in C major
Craw 107 \ Leçon progressive for keyboard Op. 32 No. 2 in F major
Craw 108 \ Leçon progressive for keyboard Op. 32 No. 3 in C major
Craw 109 \ Leçon progressive for keyboard Op. 32 No. 4 in F major
Craw 110 \ Leçon progressive for keyboard Op. 32 No. 5 in C major
Craw 111 \ Leçon progressive for keyboard Op. 32 No. 6 in F major
Craw 112 \ Leçon progressive for keyboard Op. 32 No. 7 in B-flat major
Craw 113 \ Leçon progressive for keyboard Op. 32 No. 8 in G major
Craw 114 \ Leçon progressive for keyboard Op. 32 No. 9 in B-flat major
Craw 115 \ Leçon progressive for keyboard Op. 32 No. 10 in G major
Craw 116 \ Leçon progressive for keyboard Op. 32 No. 11 in G minor
Craw 117 \ Leçon progressive for keyboard Op. 32 No. 12 in G major
Craw 118 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 28 No. 1 in C major (No. 67)
Craw 119 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 28 No. 2 in F major (No. 68)
Craw 120 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 28 No. 3 in B-flat major (No. 69)
Craw 121 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 28 No. 4 in D major (No. 70)
Craw 122 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 28 No. 5 in G minor (No. 71)
Craw 123 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 28 No. 6 in E-flat major (No. 72)
Craw 124 \ "Favorite Welsh air" arranged for piano in A major
Craw 125 \ Piano Concerto Op. 29 in C major
Craw 126 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 25 No. 1 in F major (No. 73)
Craw 127 \ Piano Sonata Op. 25 No. 2 in D major (No. 9)
Craw 128 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 25 No. 3 in G major (No. 74)
Craw 129 \ Harp Concerto Op. 30 in C major
Craw 130 \ Grand March in Alceste arranged for piano in G major
Craw 131 \ "Madame Del Caro's Hornpipe" arranged for piano in A major
Craw 132 \ Piano Trio Op. 31 No. 1 in B-flat major
Craw 133 \ Piano Sonata Op. 31 No. 2 in D major (No. 10)
Craw 134 \ Piano Trio Op. 31 No. 3 in C major
Craw 135 \ Prelude for piano Op. 31 No. 1 in B-flat major
Craw 136 \ Prelude for piano Op. 31 No. 2 in D major
Craw 137 \ Prelude for piano Op. 31 No. 3 in C major
Craw 138 \ "A Scotch air" arranged for piano in F major
Craw 139 \ "The Royal quick step" arranged for piano in G major
Craw 140 \ "Scythian Dance" arranged for piano in C minor
Craw 141 \ Piano Trio Op. 24 No. 1 in F major
Craw 142 \ Piano Trio Op. 24 No. 2 in D major
Craw 143 \ Piano Trio Op. 24 No. 3 in B-flat major
Craw 144 \ Sonata for piano 4 hands Op. 33 in C major
Craw 145 \ "Alla Tedesca" arranged for piano in b-flat major
Craw 146 \ "La Chasse" for piano in F major
Craw 147 \ Harp Sonata Op. 34 No. 1 in E-flat major
Craw 148 \ Harp Sonata Op. 34 No. 2 in B-flat major
Craw 149 \ Piano Sonata Op. 35 No. 1 in B-flat major (No. 11)
Craw 150 \ Piano Sonata Op. 35 No. 2 in G major (No. 12)
Craw 151 \ Piano Sonata Op. 35 No. 3 in C minor (No. 13)
Craw 152 \ The Naval Battle and Total Defeat for piano in D major
Craw 153 \ Piano Concerto Op. 40 in B-flat major
Craw 154 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 36 in C major (No. 75)
Craw 155 \ The favorite Romance of the Captive of Spilberg (opera, libretto by Prince Hoare)
Craw 156 \ Music composed for the Ceremony of the Victories for piano in D major
Craw 157 \ Favorite duet of Tink a Tink arranged for piano in G major
Craw 158 \ Piano Concerto in F major
Craw 159 \ Overture to Feudal Times in C major
Craw 160 \ Harp Sonatine I in C major
Craw 161 \ Harp Sonatine II in F major
Craw 162 \ Harp Sonatine III in G major
Craw 163 \ Harp Sonatine IV in B-flat major
Craw 164 \ Harp Sonatine V in F major
Craw 165 \ Harp Sonatine VI in E-flat major
Craw 166 \ Piano Sonata Op. 39 No. 1 in G major (No. 14)
Craw 167 \ Piano Sonata Op. 39 No. 2 in C major (No. 15)
Craw 168 \ Piano Sonata Op. 39 No. 3 in B-flat major (No. 16)
Craw 169 \ Piano Trio Op. 37 in E-flat major
Craw 170 \ Duet for harp & piano Op. 38 in E-flat major
Craw 171 \ "Poor Jonas" with variations for piano (lost)
Craw 172 \ Piano Quintet Op. 41 in F minor
Craw 173 \ Overture to Pizarro composed and arranged for piano in D minor
Craw 174 \ Favorite duet of "All shall leave" arranged for piano in G major
Craw 175 \ Favorite duet of "Adieu" arranged for piano in B-flat major
Craw 176 \ "Chi serba costanza" in B-flat major
Craw 177 \ Piano Sonata Op. 43 in A major (No. 17)
Craw 178 \ Piano Sonata Op. 44 in E-flat major (No. 18)
Craw 179 \ Piano Sonata Op. 45 No. 1 in B-flat major (No. 19)
Craw 180 \ Piano Sonata Op. 45 No. 2 in G major (No. 20)
Craw 181 \ Piano Sonata Op. 45 No. 3 in D major (No. 21)
Craw 182 \ Sonata for microchordon in B-flat major Op. 45
Craw 183 \ Harp Sonata in F major
Craw 184 \ Piano Sonata Op. 47 No. 1 in D major (No. 22)
Craw 185 \ Piano Sonata Op. 47 No. 2 in G major (No. 23)
Craw 186 \ Sonata for piano 4 hands Op. 48 in C major
Craw 187 \ Piano Concerto Op. 49 in G minor
Craw 188 \ Favorite duet polonoise for piano 3 hands in E-flat major Op. 50
Craw 189 \ Duettino for harp & piano in C major
Craw 190 \ Duettino for harp & piano in F major
Craw 191 \ Waltz I for piano & violin or flute in G major
Craw 192 \ Waltz II for piano & violin or flute in B-flat major
Craw 193 \ Waltz III for piano & violin or flute in C major
Craw 194 \ Waltz IV for piano & violin or flute in A major
Craw 195 \ Waltz V for piano & violin or flute in B-flat major
Craw 196 \ Waltz VI for piano & violin or flute in F major
Craw 197 \ Piano Quartet in E-flat major Op. 56
Craw 198 \ "Ertönet laut ihr bebenden Saiten" in B-flat major
Craw 199 \ Fantasia & fugue for piano in F minor Op. 55
Craw 200 \ Canzonet Op. 52 No. 1 "Sehnsucht der Liebe" in C major
Craw 201 \ Canzonet Op. 52 No. 2 "Klage der Liebe" in A-flat major
Craw 202 \ Canzonet Op. 52 No. 3 "Hoffnung" in E-flat major
Craw 203 \ Canzonet Op. 52 No. 4 "Das Warum" in E-flat major
Craw 204 \ Canzonet Op. 52 No. 5 "Dauer der Liebe" in G major
Craw 205 \ Canzonet Op. 52 No. 6 "Eigensinn der Liebe" in B-flat major
Craw 206 \ Concerto for 2 pianos in B-flat major Op. 63
Craw 207 \ Sonata for piano 4 hands in C major
Craw 208 \ String Quartet Op. 60 No. 1 in G major
Craw 209 \ String Quartet Op. 60 No. 2 in B-flat major
Craw 210 \ String Quartet Op. 60 No. 3 in E-flat major
Craw 211 \ "Elégie harmonique sur la mort de Louis Ferdinand" Op. 61 (No. 24)
Craw 212 \ "La Consolation" for piano in B-flat major Op. 62
Craw 213 \ Lied in drei Noten B C D in B-flat major
Craw 214 \ Trio for piano, flute & cello Op. 65 in F major
Craw 215 \ Canon a 4: "Ha, ha, ich merke wohl" in B-flat major
Craw 216 \ Canon a 4: "Venerabilis Barba" in B minor
Craw 217 \ Canon a 3: "Weg mit Quart und Folio Bänden" in G major
Craw 218 \ Canon a 4: "Ach, wie soll ich das gestehen" in F minor
Craw 219 \ Canon a 4: "Mit Mädchen sich vertragen" in A major
Craw 220 \ Canon a 4: "Der Zornige" in G minor
Craw 221 \ Piano Sonata Op. 64 in A-flat major (No. 26)
Craw 222 \ Anglaise for piano in C major
Craw 223 \ Anglaise for piano in G major
Craw 224 \ Waltz for piano in C major
Craw 225 \ Waltz for piano in E-flat major
Craw 226 \ Andantino con variazioni for piano in A major
Craw 227 \ Fugue for piano 4 hands Op. 64 No. 1 in D major
Craw 228 \ Fugue for piano 4 hands Op. 64 No. 2 in G minor
Craw 229 \ Fugue for piano 4 hands Op. 64 No. 3 in F major
Craw 230 \ Sonata for piano 4 hands Op. 67 No. 1 in C major
Craw 231 \ Sonata for piano 4 hands Op. 67 No. 2 in F major
Craw 232 \ Sonata for piano 4 hands Op. 67 No. 3 in B-flat major
Craw 233 \ Notturno Concertante in E-flat major Op. 68
Craw 234 \ Duet for harp & piano Op. 74 in B-flat major
Craw 235 \ Variations for piano Op. 71 No. 1 in B-flat major
Craw 236 \ Variations for piano Op. 71 No. 2 in F major
Craw 237 \ Variations for piano Op. 71 No. 3 in C major
Craw 238 \ Piano Concerto Op. 70 in E-flat major
Craw 239 \ Duet for harp & piano Op. 72 in E-flat major
Craw 240 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 69 No. 1 in B-flat major (No. 76)
Craw 241 \ Sonata for piano & violin Op. 69 No. 2 in G major (No. 77)
Craw 242 \ Piano Sonata Op. 69 No. 3 in D major (No. 25)
Craw 243 \ Duet for harp & piano Op. 73 in F major
Craw 244 \ Variations for piano Op. 71 No. 4 in G major
Craw 245 \ Variations for piano Op. 71 No. 5 in C minor
Craw 246 \ Variations for piano Op. 71 No. 6 in B-flat major
Craw 247 \ Piano Sonata Op. 75 in E-flat major (No. 27)
Craw 248 \ Fantasia for piano in F major Op. 76
Craw 249 \ Romance favorite for piano in E-flat major
Craw 250 \ Duet for violins Op. 58 No. 1 (lost)
Craw 251 \ Duet for violins Op. 58 No. 2 (lost)
Craw 252 \ Duet for violins Op. 58 No. 3 (lost)
Craw 253 \ Duet for violins Op. 58 No. 4 (lost)
Craw 254 \ Duet for violins Op. 58 No. 5 (lost)
Craw 255 \ Duet for violins Op. 58 No. 6 (lost)
Craw 256 \ Messe Solemnelle in G major
Craw 257 \ Favorite air adapted for harp & piano in E-flat major
Craw 258 \ Favorite air adapted for harp & piano in B-flat major
Craw 259 \ Piano Sonata Op. 77 in F minor (No. 28)
Craw 260 \ Piano Trio Op. post No. 1 in E-flat major
Craw 261 \ Piano Trio Op. post No. 2 in B-flat major
Craw 262 \ Canon a 4: "Il Escorcismo della Podagra" in C minor
Craw 263 \ "The Brunswick March" for piano in D major
Craw 264 \ Harp Concerto in B-flat major
Craw 265 \ Harp Concerto in E-flat major (lost)
Craw 266 \ Harp Concerto in F major (lost)
Craw 267 \ Harp Concerto in C major (lost)
Craw 268-277 \ 6 Contredanses & 4 Waltzes by Mozart arr. for piano (lost)
Craw 278 \ "Fernando's Hochgesang an Clara" for piano in G major
Craw 279 \ "Lieli e amorosi" for tenor (lost)
Craw 280 \ "La mia testa" in C major
Craw 281 \ Moravian Waltz for piano in D major
Craw 282 \ Piano Sonata (No. 78) (lost)
Craw 283 \ Turkish March for piano in C major
Craw 284 \ Art of Playing the Piano Forte or Harpsichord
Craw 285 \ Méthode pour le Piano Forte et Doigté
Craw 286 \ Klavierschule von J. Pleyel
Craw 287 \ Pianoforte-Schule nach der Englischen Ausgabe

List of Piano Concertos by Dussek:
Op. 1-1 (Craw 2) \ Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major (1783)
Op. 1-2 (Craw 3) \ Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major (1783)
Op. 1-3 (Craw 4) \ Piano Concerto No. 3 in G major (1783)
Op. 3 (Craw 33) \ Piano Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major (1787)
Op. 14 (Craw 77) \ Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major (1791)
Op. 17 (Craw 78) \ Piano Concerto No. 6 in F major (1792)
Op. 22 (Craw 97) \ Piano Concerto No. 7 in B-flat major (1793)
Op. 27 (Craw 104) \ Piano Concerto No. 8 in F major (1794)
Op. 29 (Craw 125) \ Piano Concerto No. 9 in C major (1795)
Op. 40 (Craw 153) \ Piano Concerto No. 10 in B-flat major (1799)
No opus number (Craw 158) \ Piano Concerto No. 11 in F major (1798?)
Op. 49 (Craw 187) \ Piano Concerto No. 12 in G minor (1801)
Op. 70 (Craw 238) \ Piano Concerto No. 13 in E-flat major (1810)
Piano Concerto in B-flat major Craw 1 (lost)
Piano Concerto Craw D7 (dubious)
Piano Concerto Craw D8 (dubious)

List of Harp Concertos by Dussek:
Craw 53 \ Harp Concerto Op. 15 (1789)
Craw 129 \ Harp Concerto Op. 30 (1795)
Craw 264 \ Harp Concerto in B-flat major
Craw 265 \ Harp Concerto in E-flat major (lost)
Craw 266 \ Harp Concerto in F major (lost)
Craw 267 \ Harp Concerto in C major (lost)

List of Concertos For Two Pianos by Dussek:
Craw 206 \ Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra in B-flat major, Op. 63 (1805-06)

Works of dubious attribution

Craw D 1 \ Favorite air varied for harp in B flat major
Craw D 2 \ Favorite air varied for harp in C minor
Craw D 3 \ Andantino brillante with variation for harp in B flat major
Craw D 4 \ Italian air varied for harp & flute in B flat major
Craw D 5 \ Italian air varied for harp & flute in E flat major
Craw D 6 \ Italian air varied for harp & flute in C minor
Craw D 7 \ Harpsichord Concerto in A major
Craw D 8 \ Harpsichord Concerto in D major
Craw D 9 \ Nocturne russe for harp in E flat major
Craw D10 \ Favorite air arranged for harp in B flat major
Craw D11 \ Serenade in E flat major
Craw D12 \ Harp Sonata Op. 2 No. 1 in B flat major
Craw D13 \ Harp Sonata Op. 2 No. 2 in G major
Craw D14 \ Harp Sonata Op. 2 No. 3 in C minor
Craw D15–20 \ 6 Piano Sonatas
Craw deest \ Organ Voluntary on a theme by Handel

Theoretical works

• Dussek's Instructions on the Art of Playing the Pianoforte or Harpsichord (London, Corri c. 1796)
• Kleine theoretisch-praktische Klavierschule von Pleyel, Dussek und Cramer (Vienna, Haslinger, undated)^[58]
• Méthode pour le Piano Contenant tous les principes généraux du Doigté, 24 Leçons faciles et graduées des Exercices progressifs ainsi que des passages difficiles, terminée par une Fantaisie et Fugue composée Par I.L. Dussek (Paris, undated)^[59]
• Dodici lezzioni progress. con arie caratteristiche di diff. nazioni (autograph in the library of the Conservatory in Florence)^[60]

Selected discography

• Dussek, Jan Ladislav & Sophia: Harp sonatas by Kyunghee Kim-Sutre (Sonarti records, 2013, RT01)
• J.L. Dussek: Sonatas for Harp and Fortepiano by Kyunghee Kim-Sutre and Laure Colladant (Mandala, 1995, MAN4854)

Composer: Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812)
Work: Piano Concerto in E flat major
Performers: Tuija Hakkila (fortepiano); Finnish Baroque Orchestra; Tuomas Hannikainen (conductor)

Painting: Henri-Pierre Danloux (1753-1809) - Portrait de Jan Ladislav Dussek (1795)