The sonata was written for and dedicated to Therese Jansen Bartolozzi c. 1794. Jansen Bartolozzi subsequently published the sonata c. 1800 with the title: "A Grand Sonata for the Piano Forte Composed Expressly for and dedicated to Mrs. Bartolozzi by Haydn ... Op. 79 ... London. Printed for, and to be had of the Proprietor 82 Wells Street and of the Publishers J. and H. Caulfield 36 Picadilly." The Sonata has three movements: Allegro; Adagio; Allegro molto.
Ben Schoeman (piano) performs Joseph Haydn's Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI:50, at the Cleveland International Piano Competition 2013. Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA.
South African pianist Ben Schoeman won the first grand prize in the 11th UNISA International Piano Competition, Pretoria (2008), the gold medal in the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition, London (2009), the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music (2011) and the Contemporary Music Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition, USA (2013). In 2016, he was awarded the H Rupert Prize from the South African Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has performed throughout Europe, Canada, the USA and South Africa in such renowned concert halls as the Barbican, Cadogan, Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls in London, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Gulbenkian Auditorium in Lisbon, the Cape Town City Hall and the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest. He has played at many festivals, including the George Enescu Festival, the City of London Festival, the Grahamstown Arts Festival and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival. He has collaborated with numerous conductors, including Nicholas Cleobury, Carlos Izcaray, Gérard Korsten, Theodore Kuchar, Diego Masson, En Shao, Yasuo Shinozaki and Conrad van Alphen.
In 2014, along with his duo-partner cellist Anzél Gerber, Ben Schoeman performed at Carnegie Hall, New York. Amongst several prizes, the duo won the gold medal in the Global Music Awards for their recording of music by Anton Rubinstein. The eminent South African composer Stefans Grové dedicated his Concerto for Piano, Cello and Orchestra ‘Bushman Prayers’ (2013) to Gerber and Schoeman, and they premiered the work with the Cape and KZN Philharmonic Orchestras.
Ben Schoeman studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London with Ronan O’Hora and in Florence with Eliso Virsaladze. He has completed a doctorate on the piano music of Stefans Grové at City University of London. His Liszt album has been released by TwoPianists Records and is distributed worldwide through Naxos Global. He is a Steinway Artist.
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