Václav Vorisek is an important Czech composer of the early romantic period; his “overture in c-minor op. 16 for two pianos” is his only work scored for this combination of instruments.<br>
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It differs from the rest of his piano music by sounding as it were like a full orchestra. This characteristic quality, already announced by the title “Overture”, can further be clearly detected in a tendency to give subjects or phrases the character of single orchestral instruments or groups of instruments. Formally considered, the overture is a rondo-sonata preceded by a slow introduction. The rondo movements as such consists of two contrasting areas of musical expressions: the first, “dramatic”, develops the principal subject recurring in various forms, while the secons, “lyrical”, grows out of catanbile subjects.<br>
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As obviously no autopgraph exists any more, this new printed edition is based on that published by Sauer and Leidesdorf at Vienna in 1824.<br>