Beethoven and Schumann

Giorgi Gigashvili, Piano
Prize Winner Concours Géza Anda – Hortense Anda-Bührle Fellowship 2021

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
“Eroica Variations”, 15 Variations and Fugue in E-flat Major on an Original Theme, Op. 35

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 11

The concert got recorded live on 16 July 2022 at Gstaad.

Georgian pianist Giorgi Gigashvili has been a student of Nelson Goerner at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva since 2021. That same year, he was awarded the Hortense Anda-Bührle Fellowship as one of the youngest participants in the Géza Anda Competition in Zurich. He entered with two of the most important works of the repertoire: Beethoven’s Eroica Variations, composed on a theme shared by his ballet The Creatures of Prometheus and his Third Symphony, as well as Schumann’s First Sonata, also of a heroic nature and dedicated to Clara, who at the time was not yet called Schuman