Ferdinand Ries: Grand Sextuor for 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass & piano, Ensemble Concertant Frankfurt

1.Allegro con brio
2.Andante - Air irlandois (The Last Rose of Summer)
3.Adagio - Allegro

Ferdinand Ries (28 November 1784 - 13 January 1838) was a German composer. Ries was a friend, pupil and secretary of Ludwig van Beethoven.
As one of the finest pianist-composers in Europe of his time, it is surprising that the name Ferdinand Ries is not better known today. The neglect of most of his major works (180 works, including symphonies, operas, oratorios, chamber music and solo piano pieces) is even more puzzling given his long association with Beethoven, first as his pupil, and later as a life-long friend and colleague. In most other circumstances this would have prompted an exhaustive study of his music but in Ries's case this has not happened. One of the reasons for this may lie in his publication of an important book of reminiscences about Beethoven that has proved to be of such enduring interest that scholarship has concentrated on this rather than his music.

Unlike Beethoven, whose deafness drove him from the concert platform relatively early in his career, Ries remained one of Europe's most celebrated virtuosi until well into the 1830s. His receptiveness to new musical trends and his ability to develop and exploit them was as fundamental to his success as an artist as it was to his close contemporary Hummel.

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