Heinrich Hoffman - Serenade, Op. 63 for Cello and Piano (1882)

Heinrich Karl Johann Hofmann (13 January 1842, Berlin – 16 July 1902, Groß-Tabarz, present-day Thuringia) was a German composer and pianist. He was a pupil of Theodor Kullak, Eduard Grell, Siegfried Dehn and Richard Wüerst.

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Serenade, Op. 63 for Cello and Piano (1882)
Dedication: Heinrich Grünfeld

1. Marsch (0:00)
2. Lied (3:12)
3. Reigen (5:45)
4. Abendgesang (8:52)
5. Gavotte (12:35)

Wen-Sinn Yang, cello & Oliver Triendl, piano

The Serenade op. 63, is a concert pieces. He dedicated the Serenade to the cellist Heinrich Grünfeld. In 1878, the pianist Xaver Scharwenka founded a piano trio with the violinist Gustav Hollaender (Friedrich Hollaender's uncle) and Grünfeld and began giving chamber music subscription concerts in
Berlin. Hofmann and Scharwenka certainly already knew each other from the Neue Akademie der Tonkunst, where they had been taught by the same teachers: Theodor Kullak (piano) and Richard Wuerst (theory). The work was written between 1880 and 1883 and was therefore probably written for these subscription concerts. Whether the pianist Hofmann also played them
himself in concert is unknown, as around 1880 he saw himself primarily as a (busy) composer.