For her debut album, young pianist Anastasia Huppmann has chosen works for solo piano by Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt. These two composers developed a...

For her debut album, young pianist Anastasia Huppmann has chosen works for solo piano by Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt. These two composers developed a friendly relationship while they lived in Paris. Nationalistic ideals were beginning to sweep across Europe, which led both composers to draw musical elements from their native countries of Poland and Hungary. Anastasia Huppmann began studying piano at the age of five. At the age of six she began receiving special instruction in piano and composition, and only a year later she appeared on live television performing her own compositions.