Charles Mayer

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Le regret, Op.332 Mazurka in F-sharp major Ecole de la velocité, Op.200 40 Etudes, Op.168 3 Etudes, Op.61 6 Exercises, Op.31 10 Fantaisies brillantes et originales, Op.188 Jugendblüthen, Op.121 12 Etudes mélodiques, Op.216 Grand Toccata in E major Rosenblüthen, Op.202 6 Etudes, Op.55 Fleurs d'automne, Op.210 12 Etudes mélodiques, Op.93 Nocturne, Op.81 Humoresken, Op.127 Valse-Etude, Op.83 Valse-Etude No.6, Op.116 6 Morceaux élégantes de salon, Op.215 Souvenir de Naples, Op.128 25 Leichte Übungsstücke für die Jugend, Op.340 12 Kleine characteristische Tonbilder, Op.172 Grande Etude d'Octave, Op.331 2 Piano Pieces, Op.187 Galop militaire No.1, Op.117 Capriccio No.3, Op.87 Premium Concert Polka, Op.9 Chant bohémien, Op.292 Valse de concert, Op.6 Variations sur un Air Russe No.1, Op.40 12 Novellen, Op.142 Jugendträume, Op.300 Impromptu No.2, Op.65 Caprice-valse No.1, Op.85 6 Novelletten, Op.179 Mazourka gracieuse, Op.224 Triolino-Etude, Op.190 Divertissement No.1, Op.95 6 Études mélodiques, Op.149 Immortelles, Op.140 Nouveau Tremolo, Op.189 6 Novelletten, Op.183 Romaneske, Op.184 Scherzo, Op.63 4 Fleurs, Op.218 3 Morceaux gracieux, Op.193 Variations sur un Air Russe No.2, Op.41 Etüden-Album L'amour qui s'envole, Op.230 Air italien varié, Op.76 La Tarantella, Op.74 Ballade sentimentale, Op.240 12 Studien, Op.119 3 Etudes, Op.40 Allegro di bravura, Op.102 3 Romances sans paroles, Op.77 2 Grandes etudes de concert, Op.73 Grande valse brillante No.2, Op.98 Valse-Etude No.1, Op.69 Fleur d'automne, Op.299 Souvenir d'Espagne, Op.118 Valse-Etude No.2, Op.71 Rapsodie No.1, Op.103 Romance sentimentale, Op.244 Concert-polonaise, Op.238 Valse variée No.3, Op.101 La Harpe, Op.219 Sérénade sentimentale, Op.213 Les deux héros de danse, Op.7 The Soldier's Return Wiegenlied-Romanze, Op.321 Bouquet de roses, Op.311 Capriccio brillant, Op.226 L'étoile, Op.221 Le Rossignol captif, Op.68 Keine Rosen ohne Dornen, Op.239 L'élégant, Op.124 Humoresque, Op.245 Valse-Impromptu, Op.197 Myrthen, Op.106 Une Rose sans épines, Op.203 Mazurka, Op.82 Grandes variations brillantes sur l'Air Russe national, Op.32 Souvenir à Weber, Op.33 Galop brillant de bravoure, Op.195 Galop brillant, Op.129 Une fleur cachée, Op.201 Romanesque, Op.247 Fliegender Schmetterling, Op.204 Mazurka gracieuse, Op.167 Polka gracieuse, Op.223 Schatten-Bilder, Op.198 Impromptu, Op.110 Variations sur une Walse Album, Op.330 Tarantelle-Etude, Op.348 Valse brillante variée No.1, Op.94 Valse mélancolique, Op.347 Méditation élégiaque, Op.335 Valse brillante de Concert, Op.224 2 Morceaux de Salon, Op.336 Transcription sur Lucia di Lammermoor, Op.338 Romance en Forme d'etude, Op.296 Tonblüten, Op.196 L'élégant, Op.346 Romance gracieuse, Op.334 Rêverie poétique, Op.191 Scherzo, Op.344 Un doux régard, Op.246 Une rose en fleur, Op.350 Le Printemps, Op.313 Polka-Mazurka rapsodique, Op.351 Rhapsodie No.2, Op.104 Rosenkränze, Op.329 Grand Rondeau No.4, Op.339 La belle Cracovienne, Op.208 Le Sourire, Op.107 Mazurka élégante, Op.175 Galop gracieux, Op.217 Souvenir de Teplitz, Op.320 Galop militaire No.2, Op.126 Nouveau Galop militaire, Op.328 Polka de Salon, Op.256 Concerto symphonique, Op.89 Grand Concerto, Op.70

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Grand Concerto, Op.70

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Concerto symphonique, Op.89 Grand Concerto, Op.70

Charles Mayer (21 March 1799 – 2 July 1862), also known as Carl Mayer or Charles Meyer, was a Prussian pianist and composer active in the early 19th century.

Mayer was born in Königsberg. His father was a clarinetist who, soon after Charles's birth, moved to Saint Petersburg and four years later to Moscow. He received his early musical education from his mother, followed by extended studies with John Field (1782–1837), with whom he continued to study after the family returned to Saint Petersburg after the Moscow fire of 1812. His first successful tour as a concert pianist in 1814 led him to Poland, Germany, Holland, and France, before he settled in Saint Petersburg in 1819. During another celebrated concert tour of 1845 he travelled through Scandinavia (where he became an honorary member of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm), Germany (Hamburg, Leipzig) and Austria (Vienna). Following the rise of Adolf von Henselt in Saint Petersburg, Mayer withdrew to Dresden in 1846, and died there.

Mayer was a busy and successful teacher who is supposed to have taught some 800 pupils in Saint Petersburg. He was reputed to have taken over the calm and musical (rather than virtuoso) technique established by Field. His most prominent pupils included the Russian pianist and composer Mikhail Glinka and Polish composer Filipina Brzezinska-Szymanowska.

Mayer wrote almost exclusively for the piano, producing more than 350 works for the instrument. His main body of work includes a number of studies, sets of variations on popular melodies, character pieces and dances.

He is sometimes confused with another composer by the same name who died in 1904.